LOUISVILLE, Ky. (September 23, 2009)--The UofL Entrepreneurship MBA program has climbed again in national rankings. 
     In their review of more than 2,300 colleges offering entrepreneurship programs, The Princeton Review and Entrepreneurship Magazine named the UofL College of Business graduate program #16 in the nation.
     Ranked #21 last year, the program jumped five places to rank alongside programs at Northwestern, Syracuse, USC, Temple, Rice, Wake Forest, Drexel, Tulane, Babson and UNC Chapel Hill.  No other schools in Kentucky or Indiana were included in the Top 25 graduate program rankings.

     “The rankings confirm what our students and alumni already know,” said UofL College of Business Dean Charlie Moyer. “Among the leading programs in the nation, ours delivers an exceptional combination of experience, opportunity and value.”
     The Entrepreneurship MBA is a primary component of the college’s Forcht Center for Entrepreneurship, a comprehensive suite of programs designed to launch aspiring entrepreneurs into corporate and new venture innovation. 
     The rankings appear in the October 2009 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine and at www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/index.html.

     “Top 25 programs have fulfilled three main criteria exceptionally well,” wrote the magazine’s editors. “Teaching business fundamentals in the classroom, staffing their department with successful entrepreneurs and providing experiential or entrepreneurial opportunities outside the classroom.” 
     The recognition comes on the heels of record-setting performance by UofL Entrepreneurship MBA students in international business plan competition and a Top-20 national ranking for the college’s undergraduate entrepreneurship program by U.S. News & World Report. 
     For more information about the Entrepreneurship MBA and other College of Business graduate programs, visit Business.louisville.edu/eship or call 502.852.6440.