Case's entrepreneur program named among nation's top 50
Entrepreneur Magazine ranking is latest in growing list of honors for Weatherhead School program
April 27, 2004
Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management entrepreneurship program has been named one of the top 50 national entrepreneurial colleges and universities in the United States, in the May 2004 issue of Entrepreneur magazine.
 The latest high ranking augments a growing list of honors for the entrepreneurship program, established in 1984. According to Robert Hisrich, Case chair and the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Weatherhead is among the top three universities in the world in research output on entrepreneurship and is ranked eighth in the world by the Financial Times of London.
Entrepreneur conducted its second annual evaluation of the best entrepreneurship programs at U.S. colleges and universities from September to December 2003, with the study undertaken by TechKnowledge Point Corp., which is an online research and referral exchange for entrepreneurship and enterprise development.
More than 825 entrepreneurship programs were included in the study.
"We are one of the few universities that has a doctorate degree in entrepreneurship," Hisrich said.
The management school program also has interdisciplinary programs and classes with the College of Arts and Science, engineering, law and medicine.
Since Hisrich's arrival at Case a decade ago, the entrepreneurial studies program has evolved from one professor and only three courses at the graduate level to 15 graduate courses and nine professors. The management school also has two endowed chairs—Hisrich's Mixon Chair in entrepreneurship and the Hurwitz Chair in Family Business.
According to Entrepreneur magazine, entrepreneurship education used to be limited to a few courses taught in a few business schools. Now it's become much more, including full-fledged doctoral degree programs, university departments, endowed professorships and even a change in the way entire universities approach educating their students.
David Newton, CEO of TechKnowledge Point Corp., the Santa Barbara, California-based venture research firm that compiled the data for Entrepreneur's Top 100 Listing, says the cross-curriculum movement promises to institutionalize entrepreneurial thinking in higher education outside of the business school, making it part of far more students' educations.
Newton, who is also a professor of entrepreneurial finance at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, added, "A high-quality liberal arts education is now viewed as a perfect complement to an entrepreneurship education and perspective, and vice versa."
Listed alphabetically by Entrepreneur magazine, Case shares its Top 50 ranking with Baylor University, University of Chicago, Duke University, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, Rice University, Southern Methodist University, University of St. Thomas, Stanford University, Temple University, University of Virginia and Washington University in St. Louis.
The final rankings are based on more than 70 separate criteria, including course offerings, teaching and research faculty, business-community outreaches, research centers and institutes, degrees and certificates offered and faculty and alumni evaluations.
These results appear in Entrepreneur's May issue, available on newsstands April 20th.
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