Princeton Review: Penn State 15th In Entrepreneurship
The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine have ranked the MBA Program at Penn State's Smeal College of Business as one of the top such programs in the country for entrepreneurs.
Princeton Review: Penn State 15th In Entrepreneurship
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (September 15, 2006) – The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine
have ranked the MBA Program at Penn State's Smeal College of Business
as one of the top such programs in the country for entrepreneurs.
Penn State ranked 15th on the list of the top 25 graduate programs for entrepreneurship.
MBA
students at Smeal learn to identify, initiate, fund, and develop new
business opportunities as part of the college's Corporate Innovation
and Entrepreneurship portfolio. A key aspect of the portfolio is the
opportunity to manage the college's Garber Venture Capital Fund, which
has invested in several companies.
"Our entrepreneurship
program emphasizes entrepreneurial skills across the board, so that our
students learn to think and act like entrepreneurs whether they are
starting their own business or looking for ways to innovate within
their organization," said Tony Warren, Farrell Clinical Professor of
Entrepreneurship. "At Smeal, we stress that entrepreneurship goes well
beyond start-ups. Entrepreneurial employees who are encouraged to
innovate at work are vital to the success of some of the world's
largest corporations."
Warren is director of Smeal's Farrell
Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a research center
dedicated to furthering the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation
through education, research, and outreach to business. Farrell Center
researchers work closely with Smeal students to provide counsel to a
number of companies in Pennsylvania and around the country. Through the
center, students also collaborate with economic development
organizations to identify new ways to stimulate economic growth.
A number of criteria were factored into the Princeton Review/Entrepreneur evaluation,
including the entrepreneurial emphasis of the curriculum, mentoring,
experiential learning, faculty credentials, and the success of
graduating students and alumni. High-ranking schools demonstrated a
commitment to practical, hands-on experiential learning to provide the
skills that translate into real-world businesses.
The results of the survey, along with the analysis, appear in the October issue of Entrepreneur, which hits newsstands on Sept. 26.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
