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Miami’s entrepreneurship program continued its strong position among the top undergraduate entrepreneurship programs in the U.S., according to the latest survey conducted by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review. Miami’s Institute for Entrepreneurship, located in the Farmer School of Business, was ranked 20th. This is the fourth time in the past five years that the program has been ranked in the top 25 nationally.
More than 2000 entrepreneurship programs were evaluated by Entrepreneur and The Princeton Review in determining their list of the top 25 graduate and 25 undergraduate programs. The assessment considered institutions’ success in teaching strong entrepreneurship fundamentals in the classroom, staffing departments with instructors who are successful entrepreneurs, creating effective mentor relationships, and providing students with experiential or entrepreneurial opportunities outside of the classroom.
Those criteria align well with Miami’s strengths, according to Jay Kayne, director of Miami’s Institute for Entrepreneurship.
“Most of our students are actively engaged in real-world activities, whether through for-profit business ventures or an expanding range of choices within the realm of social entrepreneurship,” Kayne explained. “Every member of our faculty is a seasoned entrepreneur, and we have cultivated significant mentor relationships among alumni and current students.”
“Our Center for Social Entrepreneurship continues to extend its ground-breaking work in undergraduate social entrepreneurship,” said Brett Smith, the center’s director. “Edun Live on Campus – a student-run partnership with Bono’s company – has expanded to more than 20 campuses, our strategic partnerships with world-class social entrepreneurs have provided on-the-ground international development learning experiences in Latin America, and our Institute for Social Entrepreneurship for future African leaders was funded by the U.S. Department of State for three years with a $480,000 grant.”
“Our entrepreneurship programs generate high- quality concepts and projects, and student feedback is consistently enthusiastic,” said Roger L. Jenkins, Dean of the Farmer School. “Whether or not they ultimately launch their own enterprise, students in our programs develop an entrepreneurial mindset that makes them agents of positive change within their organizations.”
Miami Entrepreneurship alumni have started leading businesses in many sectors, including Mangrove Capital Partners, Europe’s largest venture capital firm; GoPicnic, provider of shelf-ready meals for the hospitality industry; RGM Group, the largest digital advertising platform for the luxury market; Selerity, real-time fact aggregation provider to the financial industry; Sunflower Solutions, provider of low-cost solar power systems; Libre Clothing, clothing provider for dialysis and infusion patients; and VOKAL Interactive, developer of mobile applications for business. For more information, visit http://www.fsb.muohio.edu/centers/page-center.
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