Rankings & Affiliations
Entrepreneur Magazine and The Princeton Review
From more than 2,300 schools surveyed by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review in 2008, the Lundquist College of Business was distinguished as having one of the top fifty entrepreneurship programs, ranking twenty-third in the graduate category of the survey. More...
In 2003, 2004, and 2005 Entrepreneur also identified the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship as a top tier entrepreneurship center. One of only 13 schools listed as a top regional program, the center was additionally voted first in alumni satisfaction and second in peer school recognition in 2003 and second in program directors and faculty recognition in 2004.
US News & World Report
The Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship at the Lundquist College of Business was the sixteenth best such center in the nation, according to the U.S.News & World Report's Best Colleges 2004 rankings. The elite position was earned in the entrepreneurship undergraduate business specialty category and is based on opinions of deans and senior faculty in programs across the country accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
Business Week
In the March 15, 2004 issue of Business Week, the New Venture Championship international business plan competition was recognized as one of the top three university based business plan competitions in the nation.
National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers
The Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship is affiliated with the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers founded in 1997 through the support of the Kauffman Foundation Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Each year a conference is held that brings together the best entrepreneurship centers in the United States. These conferences have lead to greater collaboration among the directors of entrepreneurship centers to enhance and foster improvements in curriculum, research, outreach, projects, and financial support for entrepreneurship.
United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship
The mission of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) is to advance knowledge and foster business development through entrepreneurship education and research. USASBE is interdisciplinary, cross-functional, and globally connected (as an affiliate of the International Council for Small Business). It is the premier network for entrepreneurship educators at all student levels, for professional practitioners, for entrepreneurship researchers, and for government policy makers.
The Lundquist Center was the winner of the 1997 USASBE award for Model Entrepreneurship Program at the M.B.A. level and the 1998 award for Innovative Programs at the M.B.A. level. In 2004, the center's Technology and Entrepreneurship Program was runner-up for the USASBE Outstanding Specialty Entrepreneurship Program Award. Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship faculty and staff regularly attend and participate in USASBE conferences and activities.
Success Magazine
The Lundquist College of Business continues to be recognized as one of the top centers for entrepreneurship by SUCCESS magazine. Since 1995 we have been named one of the top forty schools for innovative entrepreneurship. This ranking has been maintained in an environment of exploding growth of entrepreneurship education. In a tribute to the center's mission, our New Venture Championship has been identified as one of the top three external business plan competitions in the nation.