<p>I'm a current high school senior in Seattle and I have a passion for entrepreneurship. So, I want to go to a college that has great support for student entrepreneurs and their businesses. My first choice is Stanford, but I'm sure there are a host of other schools that have excellent support for these types of students. (i.e. Yale, which has the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute to connect student businesses with alumni and investors)</p>
<p>I'd just like to know different people's opinions on this, or current college students' views on entrepreneurial scene at their own school.</p>
<p>If it helps to answer in more detail, I'm more focused on social entrepreneurship, especially easing philanthropy to make it accessible to more people via the Internet.</p>
<p>Jack, this is gonna be BIIIIIIIIIIG. Excellent initiative! </p>
<p>You don’t need college to be entrepreneurial. Sure, it’s gonna be a cool way to meet new people but so is the internet. Some CC members could potentially fall down hard on me for this but I don’t think it’s worth it to get too hung up on going to XYZ university/college. </p>
<p>If you don’t get into Stanford, that’s okay. Most people don’t! Apply to other good colleges in Silicon Valley, Boston and NYC. You’re bound to found great people to work with there! That said, some colleges that come to mind are CalTech, MIT and Carnegie Mellon University. (have no experience with them; just going by reputation)</p>
<p>Damn. I wish I had already knew some programming so I could try get involved. </p>
<p>Stanford has a class in Social Entrepreneurship this fall…it is a one unit class that is essentially a speaker series with founders of social ventures from all over the world.</p>
<p>I’ve definitely looked into Babson, and even visited there early this Spring on my East Coast college tour. It seems like it has a rock solid entrepreneurship program (well, I guess it’s kind of the only thing they do), but something just didn’t click for me. Somehow I just imagine myself in a slightly bigger college with more people, and people from different interests.</p>
<p>And I firmly believe that it’s more about who you know than what you know. This maxim has been a huge (if not the primary) guiding factor in my college search, and is why I am looking at bigger colleges with more money and, quite frankly, a big capital. Being around the big leagues will surely help what I want to do, as it’s definitely not going to be a one man job.</p>
<p>So I’ve been eyeing schools like Stanford, Yale, Duke, and UPenn. All these schools are relatively close to major innovation hubs too.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt has a lot of good entrepreneurship classes – in one of the classes (MGRL 195) you are grouped with 3 other people and you have to construct your own business plan and present it to a panel of investment bankers in Nashville. Some of the people in the class actually started their own companies from this. Also, MGRL 194 and 196 give a really good background on entrepreneurship from professors who started very successful companies – I would highly recommend those classes too.</p>
Couple years ago, two programs affiliated with the engineering school were among the “World’s Best Design Schools”, according to businessweek.<br>
It’s also no coincidence that Design for America started at Northwestern (has since spread to 14 other schools, including Stanford, Yale, and Cornell).
[Design</a> for America](<a href=“http://designforamerica.com/]Design”>http://designforamerica.com/)</p>