Two Tampa Bay universities have ranked among the top 20 entrepreneurship programs in the nation, according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine.
The lists detailing the best undergraduate and graduate 2021 programs was released this week. The University of Tampa ranked on both the undergraduate and graduate program lists, landing at No. 17 and No. 20, respectively. The school was the only in Florida to rank among the top 20 on both lists.
University of South Florida ranked No. 18 on the graduate programs list.
UT's Sykes College of Business, which hosts the Lowth Entrepreneurship Center, has helped more than 400 startups launched from alumni and have raised more than $80 million in funding. USF's Muma College of Business' Center for Entrepreneurship offers a master of science in entrepreneurship in applied technologies.
The programs were among 50 chosen by the organizations, which evaluated the programs based on the percentage of faculty, students and alumni actively and successfully involved in entrepreneurial endeavors; the number and reach of mentorship programs, scholarships and grants for entrepreneurial studies; and the level of support for school-sponsored business plan competitions.
“The schools that made our ranking lists for 2021 all offer exceptional entrepreneurship programs," Rob Franek, the Princeton Review's editor in chief, said in a statement. “Their faculties are outstanding. Their courses have robust experiential components, and their students receive outstanding mentoring and networking support.”
Other Florida universities on the undergraduate list are: University of Miami at No. 13, Florida Gulf Coast University at No. 29, Florida Atlantic University at No. 37 and Florida State University landed at No. 40. For graduate programs, University of Florida landed at No. 39 and Florida Atlantic University was No. 41.
