There are those who describe the current, faster-and-faster-moving marketplace as a fourth industrial revolution. And the best Entrepreneurship programs are those that help students appropriately speed up and, when necessary, scale-up their ideas. Students who enroll at these schools will find themselves at the forefront of innovation and development, often with an interdisciplinary focus that acknowledges the interconnectedness of today's economy. And perhaps more importantly, they will also get opportunities to enrich themselves and their communities, adding economic and social value through innovation, team building, and leadership.

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Entrepreneurship encompasses so much that it's more than an academic discipline. Studying entrepreneurship involves building self-confidence and business connections alike, developing creativity, and getting real-world results. That's why we've worked with The Princeton Review for fifteen years to point students in the right direction of the top-ranked undergraduate and graduate programs for entrepreneurs. This year's survey considered more than 250 colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Europe and evaluated a multitude of factors. We considered not just the school's programming but also its graduates' success rates in the business world, the number of mentors available for students, and more. Read on to see which schools made the grade. (To read more about our methodology, pick up the Dec. 2022 issue of Entrepreneur.)

1. University of Houston (#1 Southwest)

University of Houston

Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship

Houston, TX

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 39

Tuition: $11,276.00 (in-state); $26,936.00 (out-of-state)

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 779

What Sets us Apart

Our program at the University of Houston has been built around the needs of students and the desire to help them develop personally and professionally. Our student body is 48% Hispanic or Black, with more than 50% first-generation in college. They typically have not had leadership opportunities and often lack confidence and connections. If we only taught them how to market products or manage cash, we would not be positioning them to succeed. Consequently, we focus on providing tools and resources, so students become well-rounded leaders who can build strong relationships. We encourage and facilitate human development through numerous enrichment and outreach initiatives, including mentoring, retreats, and others. Resources and partners needed to implement our program include:

• Mentors: We have over 500 mentors who participate with us.

• Mentorship Program: Our program is run by dedicated staff members.

• Program Managers: These managers organize and implement our extra-curricular activities.

• Professional Partners: Our many partners include banks and law firms.

• Scholarships: Our scholarships enable students to devote themselves to the program activities. About 80% of our students have jobs to pay their way through school (we demand full commitment to our program and scholarships allow students to work fewer hours).

• Faculty: Our exemplary faculty coordination.

• Collaborations: We collaborate with the Colleges of Engineering, Natural Science, and Mathematics, Departments of Computer Science, Industrial Design (College of Architecture), Graphic Arts (School of Art), School of Communications, and the Law School.

2. The University of Texas at Austin (#2 Southwest)

The University of Texas at Austin

Harkey Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies

Austin, TX

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 51

Tuition: $11,752.00 (in-state); $40,996.00 (out-of-state)

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 258

What Sets us Apart

The University of Texas at Austin (UT) offers an exciting range of resources for students across the 40 acres to become a part of the entrepreneurship community. We have powerful institutions working together, including the Entrepreneurship minor housed within the McCombs Business School, where students can take five classes with their specialized major and learn how to utilize their area of interest, collaborate with peers across various disciplines, and innovate within their communities. The Herb Kelleher Center offers more than 20 high-profile entrepreneurship mentors through their Entrepreneur-In-Residence and pre-accelerator programs. Our brand new Kendra Scott Institute is focused on growing female entrepreneurship across campus with female-led entrepreneurship faculty and mentors. The Blackstone Launchpad provides the largest undergraduate startup co-working space on campus within the School of Undergraduate Studies. The 40 acres is conveniently located in one of the fastest-growing technology startup cities in the nation. Undergraduate students have immense access to startup internships, investors, mentors, and customers. Lastly, undergraduate students have access to a strong alum network across the state of Texas, where they can use their entrepreneurial knowledge to pursue a career in consulting, new product development, technology commercialization, corporate innovation, product management, event management, strategy, and business development.

3. Babson College (#1 Northeast)

Babson College

Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship

Babson Park, MA

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 37

Tuition: $55,714

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 246

What Sets us Apart

Babson College educates entrepreneurial leaders who create great economic and social value everywhere. Entrepreneurship is more than an academic discipline at Babson; it is a way of life. We teach entrepreneurship as a method so that students practice Entrepreneurial Thought and Action® (ET & A) in a variety of curricular and co-curricular settings, both on campus and around the world. Entrepreneurship is a required course for every single Babson student, and 70% of students take one of more than 70 electives. The entrepreneurship department has 51 faculty members; 23 full-time academics and 28 adjuncts, 100% of whom have both entrepreneurial and teaching experience. We have trained over 5,000 faculty from all over the world in our unique pedagogy of teaching entrepreneurship in our Price Babson Entrepreneurship Educators Program. Our campus is a living/learning laboratory with five entrepreneurial centers where students can pursue their passions for social innovation, start-ups, family entrepreneurship, women-led entrepreneurship, fashion, and food solutions, in accelerators, laboratories, and other immersive experiences. The Weissman Foundry is a unique prototyping and experimentation lab for our students. Babson's students can also pursue their entrepreneurial interest in our living and learning residential communities such as eTower, CODE, and CREATE/the Studio.

4. Tecnológico de Monterrey (#1 International)

Tecnológico de Monterrey

Institute for Entrepreneurship Eugenio Garza Lagüera

Monterrey, Nuevo León, MEXICO

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 78

Tuition: Varies by program

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 1370

What Sets us Apart

Entrepreneurship is ingrained in the University's DNA. Entrepreneurial skills are developed in 100% of undergrad students. The 'Tec21' model enhances entrepreneurship education for everyone, transforming course-classroom-lectures into a challenge-projects-mentorship. The undergrad programs are in English. Our alumni have historically created 2.8 million jobs worldwide.

Our unparalleled ecosystem: campuses are new-venture generator ecosystems. We are recognized as the leading entrepreneurship university in Latin America, comprising 12 coworking systems and 4 technology parks with liaison offices in Silicon Valley and China. Since COVID-19 a virtual alternative has been successfully developed.

Our new incubation model: Ei Zone (Zona Ei) is a new model for new business creation and growth. Incubators and accelerators are transformed in this new venture development model.

Top global partnerships. We have alliances with top entrepreneurship universities and organizations in the United States, China, and Israel.

We create innovation districts. We partnered with MIT REAP to create innovation districts in five cities and we are partners with the first "Venture Café" in Latin America.

We sponsor the best global research. Tec de Monterey sponsored the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), GUESSS, and MIT GED.

We have the most ambitious entrepreneurial event in Latin America. In 2021, the INCmty festival reached more than 8,000 people and global leaders.

5. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (#1 Midwest)

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

CFE+CSED+MDP+Tauber (College of Engineering); OptiMize-College of Literature, Science, &Arts; ZLI-Ross School of Business; EXCEL-School of Music,Theatre & Dance; School of Education; Sch of Information; Sch of Kinesiology; Sch of Nursing; Sch of Social Wk

Ann Arbor, MI

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 209

Tuition: $17,193.00 (in-state); $55,097.00 (out-of-state)

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 445

What Sets us Apart

The Michigan Entrepreneur sees opportunities to innovate and create value while embracing next-generation technology to spark innovation. They step up to tackle big, real-world problems and lead with humility and integrity. They adapt and persevere while acting as champions of solutions that elevate all stakeholders.

The Michigan Entrepreneur is shaped through an entrepreneurial ecosystem spanning The University of Michigan's 19 world-class schools and colleges. Students have access to experiential-learning programs, interdisciplinary courses, student organizations, and events that incorporate partnerships with innovative ventures. The Center for Entrepreneurship's TechLab pairs student teams with autonomous vehicle startups to deploy state-of-the-art transportation technology using the world-leading Mcity test track. OptiMize's Social Innovation Challenge, with ongoing workshops and mentorship, supports nearly 40 student-team projects selected for their impact as change-making ventures. Both the Ross School of Business's Zell Entrepreneurs and the College of Engineering's Entrepreneurs Leadership Program offer elite fellowships designed to provide students with mentorship, resources, and funding.

Our ultimate goal is to unlock the full entrepreneurial potential at the University of Michigan by helping people to understand, experience, practice, and refine the skills needed to successfully translate their knowledge, ideas, leadership, creativity, and enthusiasm into lasting value in the world.

6. Baylor University (#3 Southwest)

Baylor University

John F. Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship

Waco, TX

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 34

Tuition: $51,738

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 800

What Sets us Apart

Baylor University was one of the earliest entrants into formal entrepreneurship curriculum development, classroom training, and experiential learning, offering formal classes in entrepreneurship in 1978. We are a leading research university in the field of entrepreneurship and remain committed to providing world-class entrepreneurship education. Our educational focus includes two core objectives: 1) Foster the entrepreneurial spirit and mindset in all students by providing them with the tools needed to start ventures. 2) Provide an intent focus on core values needed for students to build a meaningful life. We seek to achieve the first objective by immersing our student's in a rigorous curriculum centered on experiential learning. Our second objective is fundamental to Baylor's Christian Mission and conveys our belief that entrepreneurial pursuits are a reflection of a higher purpose. We believe entrepreneurship serves not just an economic function but also a social purpose in the sense that entrepreneurs' activities can change the world for the better.

Our internal outreach and engagement programs for non-majors, including students not enrolled in entrepreneurship classes (entrepreneurship lectures, seminars, mentoring programs, etc.), reached approximately 1,850 Baylor undergraduate and graduate students and community members in 2021-22.

7. University of Maryland (#1 Mid-Atlantic)

University of Maryland

Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

College Park, MD

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 56

Tuition: $10,955.00 (in-state); $38,638.00 (out-of-state)

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 461

What Sets us Apart

Innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) is the highest strategic priority of the President of UMD. I&E at UMD is not limited to just the business and engineering schools. In fact, non-business and non-engineering students are every bit as important to include in the innovation process because that process isn't as rich and has inferior outcomes without that diversity. UMD aims to engage all 40,000 students in all 12 colleges and schools in I&E and is about 50% of the way there through extensive campus-wide collaboration. After adapting courses to be available online in 2020, UMD has made I&E significantly more accessible. Demand for certain I&E classes has grown tenfold now that more flexible, accessible, asynchronous options are available with which students can hone their entrepreneurial skills.

We view entrepreneurship as a way of thinking, doing and being that can be applied to most aspects of work and life. It is an exercise in self-expression, team building and problem-solving in order to create new value in the world. Entrepreneurship helps students build self-confidence and develop important personal skills in areas like creativity and leadership. Students learn concepts and methods like need-finding, opportunity recognition, value creation, design thinking, business modeling, and project planning and management. These can be applied throughout careers in industry, non-profits, and government alike.

8. Washington University in St. Louis (#2 Midwest)

Washington University in St. Louis

Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation & Entrepreneurship

St. Louis, MO

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 62

Tuition: $60,590

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 174

What Sets us Apart

The Skandalaris Center encourages students to take action on new ideas and become creative problem solvers suited for today's changing economy. While many students choose to enroll in entrepreneurial programs with the goal of starting ventures, others seek to bring an entrepreneurial mindset to corporations and nonprofits. All of our entrepreneurial undergraduate students, regardless of major, engage with entrepreneurship through a course, an immersive case experience, an internship, or a hands-on startup consulting opportunity. Any student in the entrepreneurship major, or any major, cannot leave our institution without interacting with students from other levels, disciplines, and the region. Increasingly, students can't leave WashU without engaging in entrepreneurship either. This interdisciplinary, inclusive, holistic approach separates WashU from its peers.

9. Miami University (#3 Midwest)

Miami University

John W. Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship

Oxford, OH

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 59

Tuition: $15,621.00 (in-state); $35,448.00 (out-of-state)

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 181

What Sets us Apart

Central to the design of our program is a fundamental belief in the transformative power of learning by doing. Our students experience starting high-growth companies and pitching those companies to hundreds of angel investors and venture capitalists across the nation through programs like Techstars® Startup Weekend Miami, the RedHawk Launch Accelerator, the RedHawk Venture Pitch Competition, and the Business Model Road Test Competition. They work in partnership with professionals from across the nation to solve social problems like homelessness, food insecurity, and mental health and resilience as part of Social Innovation Weekend. They manage deal flow and make valuation decisions that drive investments from two student-led funds totaling $750,000. They lead the largest university-led celebration of creativity and innovation in the world, World Creativity and Innovation Week (WCIW), which is endorsed by the United Nations with an International Day of Observance.

What sets Miami's entrepreneurship program apart from programs at every other university in the world? We are an interdisciplinary program built on practice-based, immersive learning that engages thousands of students from every major across campus and exposes those students to ecosystem builders across the U.S. Our goal is to unleash students' entrepreneurial mindsets, ignite their imaginations about what's possible, and motivate them to innovate, create value, and elevate their impact on society.

10. Northeastern University (#2 Northeast)

Northeastern University

The Northeastern University Center for Entrepreneurship Education

Boston, MA

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 39

Tuition: $57,592

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 589

What Sets us Apart

Northeastern University's specialty is in the area of experiential entrepreneurship education. This includes (1) Coursework: undergrad courses have four tracks—tech ventures, family business, social enterprise, and corporate innovation. We also have a Semester in Silicon Valley; (2) Entrepreneurship Co-op: NU is top-ranked in co-op education. Entrepreneurship Co-op places students in paid six-month internships at 250 firms; (3) Mentor Networks: there are two networks dedicated to general business and life sciences with more than 250 active members working with ventures; (4) Mosaic: an alliance of 11 student-led organizations where students help ventures with prototyping, design, IP, and more.

NU's entrepreneurship ecosystem is an interdisciplinary environment, and it is expanding to new centers of activity in Seattle, San Francisco, Toronto, Charlotte, Portland, and London. The Roux Institute in Portland has over $300 million raised from donors for Deep Tech and Community Venture development. Across the Northeastern network, more than half of the students involved in entrepreneurship and the IDEA incubator come from outside the business school. This level of interdisciplinary, experiential learning is the foundation for a promising future and is already the basis for recognition by external institutions such as the Deshpande Foundation (2018 Best Entrepreneurial University & 2022 Student Engagement) and Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (Venture Creation Award 2020).

11. Iowa State University (#4 Midwest)

Iowa State University

Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship

Ames, IA

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 95

Tuition: $9,316.00 (in-state); $24,504.00 (out-of-state)

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 634

What Sets us Apart

Iowa State University's president has made entrepreneurship and innovation a strategic priority for the entire university. Following her "Innovate at Iowa State" campaign in 2018, she has now launched the campus-wide "Start Something" initiative to link activities at the Entrepreneurship Center to all of the Start Something entrepreneurship programs in each of the seven colleges. The Entrepreneurship Center serves as one central entrepreneurship hub for all students and faculty while also directly supporting startups. The university's entrepreneurship ecosystem includes the vibrant ISU Research Park. The 400-acre Research Park, home to 120 companies, has doubled in size over the past five years. The $12 million core facility houses the Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship, Tech Transfer Offices, SBDC, CYstarters student accelerator, NSF I-Corps, Startup Factory incubator, Go-To-Market accelerator, and interdisciplinary CyBIZ Lab student consulting. Thus, Iowa State has two dedicated hubs, Student Innovation Center and Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship, that bring students from different majors together, enabling them to work together and access scholarships, funding, mentors, industry connections, and alum supporters, all to encourage and enable them to start new ventures now or in their future. At Iowa State, students are part of a truly interdisciplinary, highly-integrated, and rich university-wide entrepreneurship ecosystem.

12. Texas Tech University (#4 Southwest)

Texas Tech University

Alderson-Griffin Center for Family Business & Entrepreneurship and Texas Tech University Innovation Hub at Research Park

Lubbock, TX

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 25

Tuition: $11,852.00 (in-state); $24,092.00 (out-of-state)

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 46

What Sets us Apart

The Innovation Hub at Texas Tech University catalyzes new ideas that impact our world through creative collision, the integration of tech transfer, new venture creation, company growth, mentorship, and competitive funding. The Innovation Hub is dedicated to housing and providing access to education and resources for students, faculty/staff, alum, and entrepreneurs for the entire West Texas region. We work with high schools and the community to support entrepreneurs. We assist in the formation of technology and startup companies critically relevant to the local and regional economy. The Hub offers 12 unique programs for co-curricular activities that fund startups in ideation, commercialization, and accelerator and provides an environment for diverse collaboration. As an example, two undergraduate students from the Texas Tech business school met during a 3-day startup event at the Hub, collaborated, and now run a business with $2.4 million in annual revenue. Braxton Manley and Grant Andrews, founders of Braxley Bands, are stellar examples of the creative collisions that occur at Texas Tech University through the multi-disciplinary approach to I&E education. Another example is a company called BlueVerse that is comprised of undergraduate students currently participating in our TTU Accelerator Program and has raised over $200,000 in investments within the last academic year.

13. University of Washington (#1 West)

University of Washington

Arthur W. Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship

Seattle, WA

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 65

Tuition: $12,076.00 (in-state); $39,906.00 (out-of-state)

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 301

What Sets us Apart

For more than 150 years, the University of Washington has demonstrated an extraordinary track record of entrepreneurial impact across the globe. We serve student founders with respect, whether they are working on a unicorn or a small business. The unique and distinct access undergraduate students have to one of the top globally-ranked health, computer, and engineering-based innovation ecosystems on campus extends to the surrounding Seattle and Pacific Northwest areas as well. The impact of a region in which UW finds itself a core component cannot be understated. Seattle is a biotech, cleantech, space, retail, hardware, and software entrepreneurial juggernaut. UW students are at the heart of many of these companies, which in turn, collaborate on-campus with dozens of departments through workshops, guest lectures, hackathons, mentorship, and more. Undergraduate students quickly find themselves in an inclusive place where they can achieve personal and professional growth without judgment. This is true no matter which of the four campuses UW operates around Seattle. Creative Destruction Lab-Seattle is just one example of the kind of unique experience at UW that only a handful of others can match. From maker spaces to student-run organizations to diverse and collaborative cross-departmental course offerings, workshops, competitions, communities, and post-graduation opportunities, the University of Washington embraces the core pillar of innovation from their first year to their last.

14. Georgia Institute of Technology (#1 South)

Georgia Institute of Technology

CREATE-X

Atlanta, GA

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 30

Tuition: $12,852.00 (in-state); $33,964.00 (out-of-state)

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 275

What Sets us Apart

The CREATE-X initiative has three philosophies that distinguish it from programs in peer institutions around the country: (1) emphasis on deep entrepreneurship. In other words, entrepreneurship that is likely to have a long-term impact as opposed to short-term gain; (2) engage with students early and provide a continuous sequence of curricular programs so that entrepreneurship education is a part of the fabric of education at Georgia Institute of Technology; and (3) entirely based on experiential education, a pedagogical methodology critical for the successful entrepreneurship education.

The mission of CREATE-X from its inception has been to instill entrepreneurial confidence in its students and launch real startups. This approach was fundamental in first creating a culture in the student body that entrepreneurship can be a viable option for them. This has been key to creating a methodology and ability to permeate throughout the different colleges with programming elements for students to identify as entrepreneurs while having a pathway to explore and pursue.

We believe that entrepreneurial confidence is a life skill that all of our students need to possess when they graduate and enter the workforce, regardless of whether they will launch a startup right away or not. Toward this vision, the entrepreneurial education capacity at Georgia Tech is unparalleled, with thousands of students being engaged every year.

15. Florida Gulf Coast University (#2 South)

Florida Gulf Coast University

Rist Family Foundation Institute for Entrepreneurship

Fort Myers, FL

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 85

Tuition: $6,170.00 (in-state); $21,022.00 (out-of-state)

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 338

What Sets us Apart

The Florida Gulf Coast University Daveler & Kauanui School of Entrepreneurship (DKE) houses our degree programs and Co-Curricular Institute for Entrepreneurship and is independent of the College of Business. This independence allows the DKE to partner with other departments and faculty from across the University to provide students the interdisciplinary experiences and certificates that will help them succeed in the multi-faceted world of entrepreneurship. DKE programs aim to instill an entrepreneurial mindset founded on lean startup techniques. DKE students take courses in their field of interest (arts, health, STEM, etc.) along with the core entrepreneurship courses, which count towards the major. Students learn to develop value-adding and economically sustainable businesses. DKE faculty spend a minimum of 5 hours per week working with students in our incubator to fully understand their needs. Our programs and courses match students with mentors from a pool of over 50 community members that are skilled in different areas of entrepreneurship. Many community members and foundations provide donations to fund student businesses.

16. Drexel University (#2 Mid-Atlantic)

Drexel University

Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship

Philadelphia, PA

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 39

Tuition: $57,136

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 40

What Sets us Apart

Accredited in 2020 by AACSB as the first School of Entrepreneurship with that designation, the Close School holds the distinction of being the nation's first dedicated degree-granting School of Entrepreneurship among 3,000 colleges and universities offering entrepreneurship programs. Independent from our business school, entrepreneurship is a unique discipline, rather than an amalgamation of business disciplines, distinct from other professions. The "fourth industrial revolution" reinstates the value in and demand for personal initiative, independence, innovation, and the intellectual dexterity to reimagine ways of working, thinking, and doing. Close has pioneered an approach to entrepreneurship education that addresses these traits and skills by teaching students to be

entrepreneurial thinkers and doers, preparing them to meet the global market on a solid personal and professional footing to design their own futures. This is in line with the current philosophy of entrepreneurship, an intentional shift from venture creation to thinking/acting entrepreneurially. We have the responsibility to develop skills of discovery, reasoning, and execution so that students graduate to excel in highly uncertain, unstable environments. Students leave Close with an expansive view of what it means to be entrepreneurial, which comes to represent both a habit of mind and attitude. We guide students in the cultivation of a life approach of innovative thinking, calculated daring, and proactive behaviors.

17. Syracuse University (#3 Northeast)

Syracuse University

Blackstone Launchpad powered by TechStars; Couri Hatchery; Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship

Syracuse, NY

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 32

Tuition: $57,591

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 185

What Sets us Apart

Entrepreneurship is an academic signature of Syracuse University. It is at the core of the programs at multiple schools on campus. This cross-campus commitment to entrepreneurship results in many student ventures starting and growing every year, thousands of students enrolled in entrepreneurship courses, many full-time faculty involved in programming, and dozens of community-based experiential opportunities for students. The Chancellor recently announced a $100M investment in scholarships, and entrepreneurship is central to that. We also recently launched a centralized incubator and resource center (Blackstone Launchpad) to provide additional help across campus. The coming years will also see a push for additional faculty.

We work with thousands of military veterans per year, helping to manage their transition to civilian life. We've worked with more than 120,000 military veteran entrepreneurs over the past few years and have been acknowledged for this at the highest levels of government and private industry. The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities has been in existence since 2007 and is now offered at 10 universities around the United States, inspiring similar programs in other countries.

18. The University of St. Thomas (#5 Midwest)

The University of St. Thomas

Schulze School of Entrepreneurship

St. Paul, MN

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 46

Tuition: $50,366

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 87

What Sets us Apart

The University of St. Thomas is committed to unlocking the entrepreneurial potential of all students across campus, with entrepreneurship currently the 5th largest major and hundreds of students participating in entrepreneurial co-curriculars each year. Our full-tuition scholarship program provides 4-year, full-tuition scholarships and specialized cohort programming to 10 incoming Entrepreneurship majors each year. As a Catholic institution open to all, we stress entrepreneurship for the common good and challenge our students to find problems that matter to them and use their entrepreneurial skills to create positive change in the world. Our classes emphasize entrepreneurial purpose, ethics, and values; human-centered design and lean startup; locally-based case studies featuring alum ventures; and experiential learning and fieldwork with customers and other stakeholders. Our co-curriculars engage students through multiple avenues, including developmental workshops, mentorships, subsidized internships with startups, seed capital and pre-seed grants, an accelerator program and a series of increasingly challenging competitions, including the national eFest competition that we host annually, and the multinational Fowler Global Social Innovation School, that we host every other year. Our five student competitions, with associated developmental workshops and mentoring, give away over $400,000 in scholarship and cash awards each year.

19. Florida State University (#3 South)

Florida State University

Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship

Tallahassee, FL

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 65

Tuition: $6,517.00 (in-state); $21,683.00 (out-of-state)

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 213

What Sets us Apart

Jim Moran College is a limited-access degree program to which students apply for entry. The process we utilize to select students involves their application and essay. These are reviewed by a committee of our full-time faculty resulting in students who are passionate and excited about entrepreneurship. Our classes are hands-on and experiential; 100 percent of our juniors begin a business and keep it running throughout the year. JMC funds all the student businesses, so the students must justify the funds they request and pitch their ideas to students and faculty. This provides experience for each student to verbalize their idea for a business and why it is important. The students in this class are encouraged to work in teams and analyze, as well as support their peers. In addition, our approach to multidisciplinary collaboration sets JMC apart from programs around the country. JMC serves as a melting pot for entrepreneurs from our institutions' disciplines, gathering faculty expertise from across the campus. Every JMC major is required to complete a full semester internship at the end of their junior year; our academic approach is to ensure our curriculum delivers skills and confidence to each of our students. Another example of uniqueness is FSU's Innovation Hub, which is supported by the JMC and provides the tools necessary for our student entrepreneurs to build out their products in a virtual reality lab and Hackerspace.

20. North Carolina State University (#4 South)

North Carolina State University

NC State Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Raleigh, NC

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 56

Tuition: $9,128.00 (in-state); $30,869.00 (out-of-state)

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 52

What Sets us Apart

Allowing uniquely specialized entrepreneurship efforts to flourish within an overarching, university-wide entrepreneurship ecosystem is a cornerstone of North Carolina State University's Innovation and Entrepreneurship philosophy. NC State I&E strongly believes that entrepreneurship is an option that every undergraduate student should have the opportunity to explore. For those interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the entrepreneurial world, there should be activities and opportunities that allow students to customize a program tailored to their specific needs. Whether they want to gain a deeper understanding of technology entrepreneurship, arts entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, or a mix of the many specialized programs offered on campus, they should be able to do so. Undergraduate students also have varying degrees of flexibility in their academic requirements, so opportunities both inside and outside the classroom are critical. In addition, we strongly believe that entrepreneurial education is nothing if students are not able to put their education into practice in a supportive community. To minimize duplication of efforts and maximize resources and interdisciplinary opportunities, NC State I&E prioritizes high-impact activities that are equally available to all students to support their integration of academic learning into real-world experiences in entrepreneurship.

21. Michigan State University (#6 Midwest)

Michigan State University

Burgess Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation

East Lansing, MI

Number of Entrepreneurship Courses Offered: 41

Tuition: $17,083.00 (in-state); $41,922.00 (out-of-state)

Companies Started by Graduates Over the Last 5 Years: 947

What Sets us Apart

Michigan State University's approach to entrepreneurship education is distinctive because it expands a student's academic platform, regardless of their major or enrolled college, and adds an element of entrepreneurship to their formal education. Entrepreneurship at MSU is infused into the university curriculum via 42 courses from 22 different departments. The goal of the program is to prepare students for dynamic careers in a rapidly evolving and ever-changing world, which will demand that they be constantly learning—regardless of whether they start their own business. With this mission i...