Entrepreneur

Today the field of entrepreneurship among college students is “Hot”. More schools are offering degrees and class in entrepreneurship and the number of students enrolling is increasing fast. Bloomberg’s business, the most prestigious news begin to rank entrepreneurship programs in both U.S universities as well as international schools. At the top of the list is Stanford’s Graduate School of Business where students have the opportunity to partner with Stanford’s alumni to develop startups through the school’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES). Another high ranking school is Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where students can compete in the university’s popular $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, with the winning business plan get $50,000 reward. Since the competition started, more than 130 companies have been successfully launched, raising more than $770 million in financing. Among the top ten schools that have the best entrepreneur programs are: 

1. Stanford
2. MIT
3. Babson
4. UC Berkeley
5. Chicago
6. Carnegie Mellon
7. Imperial College
8. UCLA
9. IE Business School
10. Texas

For more ranking information: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-14/mba-rankings-top-schools-for-entrepreneurship

Sources

  • Blogs of Prof. John Vu, Carnegie Mellon University

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