Top 12 Graduate Schools For Entrepreneurs

This week, Entrepreneur magazine reported the top fifty graduate and undergraduate institutions for -- you got it -- entrepreneurs. Using the Princeton Review's rankings, Entrepreneur was able to divide the top 50 into 25 graduate and 25 undergraduate programs.

From December 2009 to May 2010, the Princeton Review looked at 2,000 schools and determined the best ones based on type and availability of entrepreneurship majors, percentage of students enrolled in entrepreneur-related courses, number of students who successfully started small businesses, and student opportunities outside of the classroom.

After the jump, check out the top 12 graduate business programs for entrepreneurs, and be sure to see Entrepreneur for the full list. What do you think of this list? Do these schools appeal to you? Let us know below.

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Babson College -- F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business

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[gomezrules]

03:07 PM on 10/12/2010

For once, a worthwhile offering on here. A common thread among those who can be called "new money" is that many of them have 'some college', but very few finished school. They made it on guts and determination, and often endured their share of failure while pursuing their success, until that success was achieved.

[wkb2texans]

03:05 PM on 10/12/2010

Now perhaps you'll understand two lessons these stories represent:

1) Govt DOESN'T make jobs ... businesses' do
2) Use Stimulus money to help small businesses get back on track ... tax breaks, low-interest (easier to get) loans

[Ladyrantsalot]

06:02 PM on 09/25/2010

The only schools I associate with entrepreneurship are those schools with high tech programs where these kids come up with amazing things and start businesses while in school. Stanford (and a few other universities) tend to attract those types of people. The big secret of higher education: business schools are a joke. They make big bucks for their universities. But someone with 2 years of business experience learns way more than a student with 2 years of b-school.

[revko]

04:02 PM on 09/24/2010

What grad school did Prometheus go to when he came up with that fire thing?

[Michael Ludin]

02:06 PM on 09/23/2010

IS THIS A JOKE? NO WHARTON, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, UT AUSTIN???? ACTON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS -- IS THAT LIKE DEVRY INSTITUTE??? WTF???

[UrbanRevolution]

01:07 PM on 09/23/2010

I went to Babson for graduate school at it was top notch!!! I had classmates who had multiple graduate degrees including terminal degrees and they said this is the best education that they've had to date!

[Benedictus70]

07:16 AM on 09/23/2010

Since when has business school been called 'grad school'? Okay okay, so technically it might be, but in reality these are professional schools with very little in common with a traditional 'graduate' education.

[Bettysdad]

03:54 AM on 09/23/2010

Read the article in the current New Yorker about James Dyson of vacuum cleaner fame.

This billionaire says we need engineers, NOT entrepreneurs.

And their are many in the business world who will tell you privately that business schools are one of the worst things to happen to the business world.

[Claudia Van01]

11:34 AM on 09/24/2010

I like your take.

I think with more engineers we'd have better luck.

Perhaps business courses should be a small part of the engineering curriculum, as an elective.

[Jeremy Kao]

01:49 AM on 09/29/2010

In a video by the White House, former Intel CEO Craig Barret said that the top degree of fortune 500 CEOs is Engineering. He also said that Engineers learn to solve problems, and solving problems leads to progress. Science and Technology is the way to go. The fact that America is falling behind is a shame and a detriment to our national security.

Here's the video and a short opinion of the video.
http://www.mavensofscience.com/blog/stem.php

Mavensofscience.com is an online community devoted to science help and discussion. We are trying to inspire the next round of engineers and scientists. Check us out!

[wkb2texans]

03:06 PM on 10/12/2010

yea ...it's a crying shame. Our public education system is killing this country ...

[Ichiro51]

11:48 PM on 09/22/2010

Honest question - why would an entrepreneur feel the need to go to grad school? Does the cirriculum cover practical aspects of starting a new venture? If so, I'd think a seminar here or there could cover most of that...I don't know, I'd just think that true entrepreneurs wouldn't see any use in graduate-level studies about that particular topic.

[Toronto Grrl]

09:37 PM on 09/22/2010

The photo used in for Brigham Young University -- Marriott School of Management is actually the Eaton Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomatogeezer/1645447137/ Fact-checkers???

[David Michael Wise]

01:04 AM on 09/24/2010

It's true. I walk through the Marriott School every day and it is not nearly that big or well appointed.

[boyd3b]

03:49 PM on 09/22/2010

Way to go BYU!

[Crappol]

03:39 PM on 09/22/2010

where is acton school of business??? never heard of this. What next ITT tech?

[Bruce Estaccio]

05:17 PM on 09/22/2010

That school is actually really awesome. It is literally the most selective school in the country. Super small, super hands-on and where else can you go and be taught by t-boone pickens and Charles Koch?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704304504574610331674286094.html