Baruch, Columbia in Top 25 for Entrepreneurship
Baruch College and Columbia University earned spots in a new listing of the top 25 graduate schools for entrepreneurship studies.
Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine produced the entrepreneurship rankings. This is their 10th annual entrepreneurship survey, according to a press release from Princeton Review.
Baruch comes in at No. 9 on the graduate programs list, while Columbia is No. 25. Baruch also made the top 10 among the best undergraduate schools for entrepreneurship programs, coming in at No. 6.
This is the eighth consecutive year that Baruch as been represented on at least one of the entrepreneurship rankings, according to a press release from the school. This year also marks Baruch’s highest rankings on both the undergraduate and graduate lists.
“We’re very proud to be recognized for our entrepreneurship programs, which are a key element of our commitment to provide academically rigorous business education that is both world-class in quality and reputation and worldwide in its impact,” said Dr. H. Fenwick Huss, Willem Kooyker Dean of the Zicklin School of Business.
The top 5 graduate-level entrepreneurship programs on the Princeton Review/Entrepreneur list are Harvard University, Babson College the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and Northwestern University.
Schools that participate in The Princeton Review entrepreneurship program survey are considered for this ranking. It’s based on the schools’ answers to questions about topics such as mentorship programs, school-sponsored business plan competitions and entrepreneurship by faculty, students and alumni. More than 300 schools offering entrepreneurship studies were surveyed between May and August of this year. Thirty-six of those schools are represented in the graduate and undergraduate rankings.
To learn more about the rankings, pick up the December issue of Entrepreneur (on newsstands now) or visit www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges. Review the full methodology for the survey on Princeton Review’s website.
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