2025 Finalists

Winner

University of Texas at Austin

First runner-up

University of South Carolina

Second runner-up

University of Washington

In recognition of their achievement, the $6,000 first-place prize was shared among the presenting team members from UT-Austin. The team members, team advisers, and dean will also receive complimentary registration, travel, and lodging to NCPA’s 2025 Multiple Locations Conference in Florida. The students from USC received $4,000 to be shared by the team members, and the University of Washington team received a $2,000 prize to be shared among the presenting team members.

You can learn more about the teams’ proposed projects here.

DEVELOP YOUR INNER ENTREPRENEUR

To promote interest in independent community pharmacy ownership, the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) and the NCPA Foundation have established the Good Neighbor Pharmacy NCPA Pruitt-Schutte Student Business Plan Competition. The goal of the Competition is to motivate student pharmacists to create the blueprint necessary for buying an existing independent community pharmacy or developing a new pharmacy. Through this competition, NCPA is better able to prepare tomorrow's pharmacy entrepreneurs for a successful future.

The Business Plan Competition is the first national competition of its kind in the pharmacy profession and is named to honor two great champions of independent pharmacy, the late Neil Pruitt, Sr., and the late H. Joseph Schutte. The Pruitt and Schutte families initiated an endowment fund with the NCPA Foundation to help support annual operating expenses of the Competition. The Competition is supported by Good Neighbor Pharmacy, Pharmacists Mutual, and the NCPA Foundation.