Editing Salisbury University (section)

===Perdue School of Business===
The Perdue School is home to the nation’s second longest-running student entrepreneurship competition, first held in 1987, with a current annual prize pool of some $100,000.<ref>{{Cite web |last=University |first=Salisbury |date=2022-05-13 |title=SU Announces 2022 Student Entrepreneurship Competition Winners |url=https://www.salisbury.edu/news/article/2022-5-13-SU-Announces-2022-Entrepreneurship-Competition-Winners |access-date=2023-03-10 |website=Salisbury University |language=en}}</ref>

Since 2013, the Perdue School also has been home to the Philip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation Shore Hatchery entrepreneurship competition, through which small business owners and developers throughout the Mid-Atlantic vie twice a year for their share of a $200,000 prize pool and mentorship from some of the region’s most successful business owners. Recipients have self-reported estimated profits of some $100 million, creating nearly 700 jobs.<ref>{{Cite web |last=University |first=Salisbury |date=2022-11-02 |title=Fall Ratcliffe Foundation Shore Hatchery Winners Announced |url=https://www.salisbury.edu/news/article/2022-11-2-Spring-Ratcliff-Foundation-Shore-Hatchery-Winners-Announced |access-date=2023-03-10 |website=Salisbury University |language=en}}</ref>

The Perdue School’s Mid-Atlantic Sales and Marketing Institute (MASMI) annually hosts students from around the U.S. for the National Shore Sales Challenge, a collegiate competition that allows students to sharpen their sales skills while networking with potential employers from more than a dozen national corporations.<ref>{{Cite web |last=University |first=Salisbury |date=2022-04-06 |title=Second National Shore Sales Challenge Winners Announced |url=https://www.salisbury.edu/news/article/2022-4-6-Second-National-Shore-Sales-Challenge-Winners-Announced |access-date=2023-03-10 |website=Salisbury University |language=en}}</ref>

Since 2001, Perdue School students have had the opportunity to earn real-world stock market experience through the Sea Gull Fund, a unique student-managed investment portfolio — currently valued at more than $2 million — with gains that have outperformed the Standard & Poor’s average.<ref>{{Cite web |last=University |first=Salisbury |date=2016-10-18 |title=Sea Gull Fund Continues to Grow at SU |url=https://www.salisbury.edu/news/article/Sea-Gull-Fund-Continues-to-Grow-at-SU |access-date=2023-03-10 |website=Salisbury University |language=en}}</ref>

Through a $2.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Fraud and Forensic Accounting Certificate Program students in the Perdue School are partnering with the Office of the State’s Attorney of Worcester County to help investigate and curb elder fraud in what is believed to be the only program of its kind in the nation.<ref>{{Cite web |last=University |first=Salisbury |date=2022-10-20 |title=$2.6 Million Federal Grant to Enhance One-of-a-Kind SU Partnership to Investigate and Curb Elder Financial and High-Tech Fraud |url=https://www.salisbury.edu/news/article/2022-10-20-26-Million-Federal-Grant-to-Enhance-One-of-a-Kind-SU-Partnership-to-Investigate-and-Curb-Elder-Financial-and-High-Tech-Fraud |access-date=2023-03-10 |website=Salisbury University |language=en}}</ref>

Through the Cross-Atlantic Negotiation Competition, Perdue School students virtually join their counterparts at the University of Bucharest School of Law to practice international negotiation skills as part of a Fulbright-inspired faculty partnership.<ref>{{Cite web |last=University |first=Salisbury |date=2022-12-07 |title=SU Students Participate in International Negotiation Competition with University of Bucharest |url=https://www.salisbury.edu/news/article/2022-12-7-SU-Students-Participate-in-International-Negotiation-Competition-with-University-of-Bucharest |access-date=2023-03-10 |website=Salisbury University |language=en}}</ref>

The Perdue School’s Dave and Patsy Rommel Center for Entrepreneurship provides business and prototyping resources for students and community members, including a full makerspace.<ref>{{Cite web |last=University |first=Salisbury |date=2021-10-29 |title=SU Opens New Dave and Patsy Rommel Center for Entrepreneurship |url=https://www.salisbury.edu/news/article/2021-10-29-SU-Opens-New-Dave-and-Patsy-Rommel-Center-for-Entrepreneurship |access-date=2023-03-10 |website=Salisbury University |language=en}}</ref>