Forty-two teams hailing from some of the world’s top universities will vie for more than $1 million in prizes at the 17th annual Rice Business Plan Competition at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business April 6-8.

HOUSTON – (Feb. 24, 2017) – The 42 teams that have been accepted to participate in the 17th annual Rice Business Plan Competition at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business April 6-8 will be announced via Facebook Live at 11:05 a.m. CST Feb. 27.

Applications are now being accepted for the 17th annual Rice Business Plan Competition at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business April 6-8. Graduate students with a business plan for a new startup company are encouraged to apply to compete.

Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business has the No. 3 graduate entrepreneurship program in the U.S. (up from No. 6 last year), according to rankings announced Nov.