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National Alumni
Survey Places Smith #1 for
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneur magazine places
the Robert H. Smith School of Business,
University of Maryland, as the #1
business school for entrepreneurship in
rankings based on a survey of alumni.
The rankings are part of Entrepreneur's
2nd Annual Top 100 Entrepreneurial
Colleges and Universities issue, which
also places Smith among its
distinguished group of 13 schools ranked
in the top tier of national
Comprehensive programs.
"Five programs, including Babson
College; Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; The University of Arizona;
University of California, Berkeley; and
[the] University of Maryland, College
Park, repeated as members of the top
tier of national Comprehensive
programs," noted the magazine in an
article accompanying this year's
rankings.
More than 825 entrepreneurship
programs and curricula were researched
from September to December 2003 for the
study, according to Entrepreneur.
The final rankings are based on such
criteria as course offerings, teaching
and research faculty, business-community
outreaches, research centers and
institutes, advisory boards, off-campus
programs, other entrepreneurial
initiatives, degrees and certificates
offered, tangible venture development,
access to capital funding, and faculty
and alumni evaluations.
"We measure more than 60 separate
program dimensions, and schools like
Arizona, DePaul, Maryland, and others
have made entrepreneurship their
flagship effort. They now have some of
the best course offerings, faculty,
special initiatives, and opportunities
for venturing," said David Newton, whose
company, Santa Barbara, California-based
TechKnowledge Point, compiled data for
the 2003 and 2004 rankings.
The alumni rankings, in which the
Smith School is #1, are based on surveys
of alumni from more than 350 separate
schools, who were asked for their top
entrepreneurial college picks.
The Entrepreneur magazine
rankings are available
online. The rankings will appear in
the May issue of the magazine, which
hits newsstands April 20, 2004.
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