All great businesses start with a bright idea. The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine today release their eighth rankings of 25 top graduate and undergrad university programs for budding entrepreneurs, whose bright ideas can turn into successful businesses.
The rankings are posted online at Entrepreneur magazine’s website, http://www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges with facts about each university. The schools will be featured in the October issue of Entrepreneur magazine.
The Princeton Review selected these 50 programs from about 2,000 surveyed, saying they satisfy multiple criteria within three main categories: students and faculty, academics and requirements, and enriching experiences outside the classroom.
Top 25 undergraduate programs:
1. University of Houston, Houston, Texas
2. Baylor University, Waco, Texas
3. Babson College, Wellesley, Mass.
4. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
5. University of Southern California, Los Angeles
6. University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
7. Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
8. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind.
9. Washington University, St. Louis
10. DePaul University, Chicago
11. Xavier University, Cincinnati
12. University of Arizona, Tucson
13. Temple University, Philadelphia
14. Northeastern University, Boston
15. University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.
16. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.
17. City University of New York, New York
18. Belmont University, Nashville
19. Drexel University, Philadelphia
20. Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
21. The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
22. Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
23. University of Wisconsin-Madison
24. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
25. Chapman University, Orange, Calif.
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Top 25 graduate programs:
1. Babson College, Wellesley, Mass.
2. The University of Chicago
3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
4. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
5. University of Arizona, Tucson
6. Rice University, Houston
7. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
8. Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
9. University of Texas at Austin
10. Washington University in St. Louis
11. Acton MBA Entrepreneurship, Austin, Texas
12. DePaul University, Chicago
13. Tulane University, New Orleans
14. University of Southern California, Los Angeles
15. Drexel University, Phildelphia
16. Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
17. University of Washington, Seattle
18. Temple University, Philadelphia
19. University of Wisconsin-Madison
20. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
21. Syracuse University, Syracuse N.Y.
22. Simmons College, Boston
23. Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, N.C.
24. University of Illinois at Chicago
25. University of South Florida, Tampa