I know it was mentioned up top but Northeastern offers a very good engineering program and the D’Amore Kim school of business has an undergrad entrepreneurship and innovation concentration. Combined with the chance to co-op and you have a pretty solid program. I have a son there now studying dual major of MIS/Supply Chain and he is active in the entrepreneur club on campus.
Babson is a great undergrad biz school for entrepreneurship, but no engineering. It’ also small and not located in a city. Olin College shares a campus but is teeny and very hard to get accepted to.
Your son might also like a tech school like RPI that has a business program, their tech departments work closely with the biz school. . My son liked it there too, but ended up at NEU.
Good luck.
Given your student’s interests, I recommend close examination of two institutions:
- Olin College of Engineering. My son went there. He did research on rockets and electric cars beginning as a freshman. Fantastic four years, great summer internships, and now full time job he loves.
- University of Alabama at Huntsville. If I had known what an amazing school, amazing bargain, and amazing tech location this was, we would have considered it. Destin Sandlin went there. You might know his youtube channel, "Smarter Every Day".
If he’s flexible about size, give Purdue more consideration.
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I am a WPI graduate and worked there for ten years. My brother is a Babson graduate. Consequently we talk a lot about WPI and Babson. We are both retired, but my brother still has to play with the stocks .
The Foisie Business School was formed shortly after an alumnus dropped $40 million dollars on WPI. They had been offering Management majors and the MBA for decades, but did not have a full fledged business college. The first thing they did was to raid the Babson campus for faculty as they wanted a business program directed toward technical entrepreneurship. When the traffic is light, Babson and WPI are only 40 minutes apart.
Even before Foisie, WPI’s first off-campus project center was on Wall Street. Today there are over 50 centers in 31 different countries.
From the business college direction, see Foisie @ https://www.wpi.edu/academics/business
From the University direction see https://www.wpi.edu/about/innovation-entrepreneurship
See how it works @ https://www.wpi.edu/offices/intellectual-property-innovation/how-it-works
My brother’s mind was always on business where mine was on math and science. It is great to have the fully developed combination on the same campus.