Belmont’s Entrepreneurship program once again made the Top 25 in the country for Entrepreneurship magazine and the Princeton Review.
From over 2,000 schools surveyed by The Princeton Review for Entrepreneur
magazine, Belmont University was recognized as having
one of the top 50 entrepreneurship programs in the country. We ranked 19 in the undergraduate category
of the survey.
This is the eighth annual ranking of the nation’s top 25
undergraduate and top 25 graduate programs for entrepreneurship.
The creativity, work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit of our
students and alumni is what makes our program work. Our success is a
direct result of their success.
Belmont’s program was evaluated
based on key criteria in the areas of teaching entrepreneurship business
fundamentals in the classroom, staffing departments with successful entrepreneurs,
excellence in mentorship, providing experiential or entrepreneurial
opportunities outside of the classroom, as well as non-traditional,
distinguishable aspects of their programs.
“Behind the top ranked schools is not only a great formal
classroom experience, but a cross-disciplinary approach to teaching
entrepreneurship that embraces and encourages a student’s vision to build a
successful business,” said Robert Franek, The Princeton Review’s Senior Vice
President – Publisher and nationally recognized expert on college admissions.
“The right education enhances and reinforces curiosity and
creative thinking in entrepreneurs,” commented Amy Cosper, vice president and
editor in chief at Entrepreneur.
“This ranking provides a unique look at top schools that offer the type of
training, encouragement and direction that nurtures entrepreneurial skills.
It’s an excellent resource for those interested in academics as a pathway to
their goals, and it can help tremendously in the discovery process to finding the
right program.”
The results of the survey, along with the analysis, appear
in the October issue of Entrepreneur,
which hits newsstands today, September 20th.
Thanks to all of you who make our program shine!
Dr.C.
As a student in one of the top ranked schools teaching entrepreneurship, I agree with Robert Franek when he said “Behind the top ranked schools is not only a great formal classroom experience, but a cross-disciplinary approach to teaching entrepreneurship that embraces and encourages a student’s vision to build a successful business.”
This is what makes Belmont’s Entrepreneurship degree so dynamic. No business class I have taken in my undergraduate business career thus far has challenged me like my entrepreneurship classes have. It is the cross-disciplinary approach of experiential learning that adds the richness to this degree. This program is practically preparing us for the real world in a way other disciplines do not. It teaches us to try and fail and then try and fail again… it toughens our skin so to say and allows us to learn from mistakes and then plan for those mistakes. Most graduates don’t learn the “tricks to their trade” until they enter the work forces and learn from a full time experience. I am not saying that us entrepreneurship majors are learning all the tricks, oh no, we will learn much more once we plunge into our first venture, I am simply saying I believe we are being allowed to take that first step into our careers under the guidance of our professors who want to help us be better entrepreneurs. What an opportunity!
All that to say, I am fortunate to be in Belmont University’s entrepreneurship program.