Muhlenberg College Listed In Entrepreneur Magazine's Second Annual "Top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges And Universities"
Muhlenberg College has been named one of the Top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges and Universities in the United States. The list is published in the May 2004 issue of Entrepreneur magazine.Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:40 AM
Muhlenberg College has been named one of the Top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges and Universities in the United States. The list is published in the May 2004 issue of Entrepreneur magazine.
More than 825 entrepreneurship programs were researched for the study, resulting in a list of the top 50 national programs and the 50 top regional programs. National programs feature comprehensive entrepreneurship programs at nationally prominent colleges and universities, while regional programs offer comprehensive entrepreneurship programs recognized in their regions. Muhlenberg appears in the first tier of the list of regional programs.
A total of 13 Pennsylvania schools are listed in the ratings. In the national-program rankings, Penn State appears in the first tier, while the University of Pennsylvania and Temple are in the third tier and Carnegie-Mellon is in the fourth tier. In the regional-program rankings, Muhlenberg was one of 13 schools listed in the first tier of the regional rankings, while Seton Hill College's National Education Center for Women was in the fourth tier. "Regional" designation refers to the program's prominence in its geographic area, and only the top programs nationwide appear in the rankings of the best regional programs. The other top-ranked regional schools are the University of Akron, California State University-Fresno, University of Houston, Iowa State University, Marquette University, University of North Texas, University of Oregon, the University of St. Louis, the University of San Francisco and Sierra-Nevada College. Other Pennsylvania schools making the top 100 were Drexel University and Juniata College, second tier; and Washington & Jefferson College and Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the "entrepreneurship emphasis" category. In the "limited curriculum" category, the University of Pittsburgh made the first tier, Duquesne University was in the second tier and Albright College was in the fourth tier.
David Newton, CEO of TechKnowledge Point Corp., the Santa Barbara, California-based venture research firm that compiled the data for Entrepreneur's Top 100 Listing, says the cross-curriculum movement promises to institutionalize entrepreneurial thinking in higher education outside of the business school, making it part of far more students' educations.
"A high-quality liberal arts education is now viewed as a perfect complement to an entrepreneurship education and perspective, and vice versa," says Newton, who is also a professor of entrepreneurial finance at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Entrepreneur's second annual evaluation of the best entrepreneurship programs at U.S. colleges and universities is the most credible and comprehensive analysis of its kind. The study was conducted from September to December 2003 by TechKnowledge Point Corp. Founded by Newton in 2001, TechKnowledge Point is the world's first and only 24/7 online research and referral exchange for entrepreneurship and enterprise development.
The final rankings are based on more than 70 separate criteria, including course offerings, teaching and research faculty, business-community outreaches, research centers and institutes, degrees and certificates offered, and faculty and alumni evaluations. These results appear in Entrepreneur's May issue, available on newsstands April 20. Entrepreneur has a circulation of 540,000.
Muhlenberg College is a small, highly selective liberal arts college in Allentown, Pa. Muhlenberg was among the first liberal arts colleges in the nation to offer an entrepreneurial studies program.
