Nearly 3,000 colleges offer classes in entrepreneurship, up tenfold in the last 20 years, according to the Kauffman Foundation, which is devoted to promoting “a society of economically independent individuals.”
So which school is the right place for those interested in starting their own companies?
Fortune Small Business spent seven months interviewing hundreds of entrepreneurs, professors, administrators, students and alumni to try to find out. The magazine answers the question this way:
It found that the best places to get an undergraduate education were Babson College, Indiana University, Syracuse University, the University of Arizona, and the University of Pennsylvania.
The best places for learning online were Boston University, the University of Houston at Victoria, the University of Wyoming, and Western Carolina University.
For cross-disciplinary studies, the choices were Cornell, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wake Forest.
For graduate school, the top places were Babson, Harvard, Indiana University, M.I.T., Stanford, Syracuse, the University of Arizona, University of California at Berkeley, the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Pennsylvania.
The top choices for executive education were Babson, Harvard, Northwestern, Stanford, the University of Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin.
And for family business, the best places were Babson, Baylor, Kennesaw State University, Loyola of Chicago, Northwestern and the University of Texas at El Paso.
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