Deadline Date: February 11, 2026
The Milken–Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition (EBPC) invites education entrepreneurs from around the world to scale their most innovative ventures and compete for prizes, expert mentorship, and access to a global network of education innovators.
The focus areas and objectives of the competition include supporting purpose-driven EdTech ventures, advancing teaching and learning through innovation, recognizing groundbreaking ideas in virtual STEM education, speech-language technology, and college eligibility, fostering entrepreneurship in education, providing mentorship from world-class experts, offering financial awards and non-monetary support, connecting participants with a global network of innovators and investors, and partnering with organizations such as the Michael & Lori Milken Family Foundation and Penn GSE to nurture high-impact education solutions.
EBPC is recognized as the world’s top education business plan competition, with thousands of ventures from more than 50 countries applying to date. The competition has helped winners bring transformative ideas to life, providing them with funding, visibility, and guidance to scale their impact in education. Participants gain opportunities to refine their business models, validate their solutions, and engage with a network of peers and mentors dedicated to advancing educational innovation.
The Milken–Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition invites education ventures with innovative solutions to advance teaching and learning across all settings, from early childhood to corporate and adult training, welcoming both nonprofit and for-profit submissions. Since 2010, the competition has focused on areas including AI and emerging technologies in education, urban education, connecting research to practice, teaching and learning, K–12 technology, open and collaborative education solutions, online and distance learning in higher education, global education initiatives, early childhood education, and workforce learning. Any individual is eligible to submit an entry except those under 18, competition judges, previous finalists or winners (unless submitting a new and unrelated business plan approved by the University), anyone legally prohibited from entering in their jurisdiction, and Penn Graduate School of Education faculty, staff, and administrators.
For more information, visit EBPC.
