Last year, a record number of graduating students at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business chose to start their own companies. Some 16% of the Class of 2011 shunned traditional MBA jobs in favor of the start-up world, a three-fold increase from the 5% in the early 1990s and a third higher than the earlier 12% peak during the dot-com bubble.
Harvard Business School’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship now boasts 34 professors who teach 26 courses on all aspects of entrepreneurship in the second-year elective curriculum. Indeed, every single member of Harvard’s class is now required to create a micro-business that is funded by the school. And Harvard’s annual business plan contest offers more than $170,000 in prize money to winners and runners-up. Yet, Stanford and Harvard are nowhere to be found in the 2012 ranking of the best business schools for entrepreneurship published this week by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. Neither are Wharton, MIT Sloan, UC-Berkeley Haas, or Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business.
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