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Prizes

Hult Prize

Status

Status not published

Annual cycle: on-campus qualifiers in the autumn and winter, regional summits in the spring, global finals in the autumn

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Amount
$1,000,000

US$1m to the winning team each year

Funder

Hult Prize Foundation

private · supranational

Deadline: One call a year — Annual cycle: on-campus qualifiers in the autumn and winter, regional summits in the spring, global finals in the autumn

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Student competition: teams must include currently enrolled university students. Solutions are judged against the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.hultprize.org/

""$1M USD" prize; "130+ Participating Countries"; "50K+ Entrepreneurs""

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found

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