America’s Best Colleges for Entrepreneurs: MBAs
What do you think of the top MBA programs on FSB’s America’s Best Colleges for Entrepreneurs list this year? Have you attended one of our picks? Are they the best? Did their program help you build a businesss? Did we miss a great school? Tell us what you think. The best replies will be published here, and possibly in a future story on CNNMoney.com.
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DiggAccess to quality workers give the MBA program its value. If I had a choice between a classroom full of marketing and logistics managers getting an MBA at east-west-central-state college vs a classroom full of GPA-obsessed kids at a top MBA school, go figure.
Unranked commuter school called Golden Gate University in San Francisco has a huge MBA program not because it rivals anything, but simply due to its solid connections with the big accounting firms and banking industry.
I favor the mainstream B-schools because that’s where you’ll find the majority of the workforce; the blood & sweat behind the Powerpoint.
The University of St. Thomas in Minnesota is without at doubt one of the best buesiness schools in the nation for Entrepreneuers.
Hi–
great article on best colleges for aspiring entrepreneurs. when next year rolls around, please take a look at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We are one of seven Kauffman Campuses, and have received a $5million grant to support entrepreneurship activities on our campus. We also offer an MBA in entrepreneurial management, as well as a lot of other curriculum and non-curricular enterprise opportunities.
thanks!
How does the best school in the nation’s capital not make the list? As a recent grad, Georgetown couldn’t have provided me with better networking opportunities, guest lectures, or quality of professors. I would love to hear the rationale behind the ommission.
Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA has an excellent entrepreneurship program. They are supported by a SBDC and have a very successful entrepreneur leading the program. Smaller schools like this do not have the exposure and are really underrated.
What really makes a school stand out is the AACSB accreditation. Only 15% of Graduate Business Schools have it in the world and to get it, they have to have the same basic curriculum. You want to hire a quality MBA student, go to one of these schools.
The list is always the same basic 20 schools. These are schools that put out the most investment bankers, and vc entrepreneurs. There are numerous schools that are doing novel things to promote entrepreneurship that never get mentioned. When are you going to stop brainwashing America into thinking that these are the top business schools, and when are people going to realize that these schools are where most of the future corporate criminals come from?.
This list seems unduly skewed towards private universities. If you borrow $100k for a Harvard or Stanford MBA and join a Fortune 500 company, there’s a way to pay it off, but how would an entrepreneur pay it off while scrambling to find money to build his/her new venture? Mommy and daddy might pay for your Harvard B.A. but will they still support you when you’re 28?
How could you miss the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University? Their course materials in entrepreneurship are new and different, not the same old stuff from 1973. The list as it stands reads like a “Who spends big bucks on advertising,” rather than a “Top Schools” List. Evaluating the programs according to their merits would give a MUCH different picture.
The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, has a an enterpreneurship program that is second to None. The Dingman Center for Entreprenuership and the New Market Growth Fund give MBA students hand on experience in working with and building businesses. Associates with these programs get a chance to start their own businesses or work with young start up companies across the DC Metro area in particular and around the country in general.
The Robert H. Smith School of Business has made it a clear strategy to provide a lot of opportunities to express themselves entrepreneurially as a result of the program. There is a growing club of entrepreneurs beyond Kevin Plank who will become well known in the next few years because of the support and hand on experience provided.
How could you possibly miss the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business / Polsky Center For Entrepreneurship. UofC GSB is the top business school in America.
You missed absolutely the best Internship school which to me equates to Aspiring Entrepreneurs. Year after year it beats Harvard, BU, and MIT in the heralded head to head Beanpot Competition in business. That school is Northeastern University in Boston.
How could Kellogg at Northwestern not be on your list for top b-schools for Social Entrepreneurship??? Their social entrepreneurship program is one of the best in the country. You guys screwed up!
One of the hottest entrepreneurial markets in the country is Orlando, Florida and a college that you missed is located right there…Rollins College. Rollins College and the Crummer School of Business help students who want to launch ventures created in Entrepreneurship classes through their Dream Team mentorship program. The school also is proud of First Movers, a microbusiness that helps students learn first hand what it takes to operate an entrepreneurial business. The school provides consulting to local entrepreneurs and also provides a variety of workshops and seminars targeted to this audience. The school also runs the Central Florida chapter of the ATHENA Power Link program which mentors women-owned businesses.
Take a closer look at Rollins College and you’ll find that the interests of students and entrepreneurs are being served in this wonderful small school.
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Certainly, this list is incomplete. For example, Nova Southeastern University. Though not a name brand school, its business school offer an excellent MBA-entrepreneurship program. What about University of Colorado-Denver? Its Bard Center of Entrepreneurship conduct reserach, offer UG and grdaute level courses.