<p>IMO “entrepreneurial school rankings” don’t mean anything. If you want to start a business, just go do it. Take the money you would have spent from college. If planning to become your own boss, you don’t need a college degree to do that (although it can expand your horizons), Instead, you could audit classes, read books on the topic (there are a ton out there), and start doing it.</p>
<p>Just because a school has many people that started their own business from there, doesn’t mean taking “entrepreneurship classes” there would be a better investment than putting it into the business itself (assuming that there already is an idea present for a viable business)</p>
<p>Love your avatar shawnspencer! I miss that show!</p>
<p>I wholeheartedly disagree, shawn. Virtually every nascent entrepreneurial venture will require considerable outside capital. The “angels” who provide this initial – and, likely, follow-on – funding (whether individuals, private equity firms, financial institutions, investment banks, etc.) will stringently asses not only the entrepreneurial innovation, but also – and critically – the business, marketing, financial, and many other detailed plans. In addition, they will scrutinize the characters, backgrounds, leadership abilities. work ethics, professional experiences, intellectual capabilities, and so forth of every key person in the potential new venture. Failure to do the foregoing would be gross mismanagement and would potentially risk an investors’ lawsuit.</p>
<p>When the possible “angles” investigate the nascent entrepreneurial venture’s senior management, excellent educational credentials are VERY important, perhaps decisive, in their decisions. Common sense alone suggests this. Would you invest your hard earned money in an entrepreneurial enterprise where (for example) the CFO was an MBA/CPA from a highly reputed university, or one where the CFO had finished high school and claims to have “audited classes” and “read books” (to use your specific suggestions)? The later is plainly absurd. </p>