THE SMALL BUSINESS INSTITUTE® IS A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED PROGRAM WITH A 30 YEAR TRACK RECORD 0F EXCELLENCE

California State University’ Fullerton’s  Small Business Institute® has won 39 awards for outstanding student consulting to small business owners from the U. S. Small Business Administration, including six regional awards (top ten in the nation) in 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996; and two national first place awards in 1992 and 1996.  The SBI has also won fifteen Regional awards from the successor competition conducted by the Small Business Institute Directors Association (SBIDA), and ten national awards in 1996 (1st), 1997(1st), 1998(1st), 2000 (2nd) 2001(1st), 2002 (1st), 2003 (2nd), 2004 (1st), 2005 (1st), and 2006 (2nd). 

CSUF SBI’s Executive Director has received the Sargent Americanism Award of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers' Manufacturing Engineering Education Foundation. He holds a Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge in recognition of CSUF SBI’s innovative work with MBA students.   The CSUF SBI has also received a Showcase Award from the Small Business Institute Directors’ Association recognizing the institute’s progressiveness and innovativeness. In February 2000, the SBI’s Executive Director was named a fellow of SBIDA in recognition of his outstanding guidance of student field case projects.