Stories of Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship in the Southeast

The Princeton Review^® and Entrepreneur^® have announced The Princeton Review’s 19^th annual ranking of undergraduate and graduate schools for entrepreneurship studies. The ranking lists name the 50 undergraduate and 50 graduate schools offering the best programs in entrepreneurship studies for 2025.

The rankings for the 2025 lists are based on a survey The Princeton Review conducted in summer 2024 of administrators at nearly 300 schools in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Europe offering entrepreneurship studies. The education services company’s methodology for the rankings considers more than 40 data points. Among them are academic offerings, faculty credentials, mentorship, and experiential learning opportunities, alumni entrepreneurship ventures, and other distinctions.

What universities earned top rankings?

1. The top 10 among undergraduate programs, in order, were: University of Houston, The University of Texas at Austin, Babson College, University of Washington, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, University of Maryland in College Park, Miami University of Ohio, Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico, and Northeastern University. Belmont University in Nashville was the only Tennessee undergraduate program ranked, coming in at #32.
2. The top graduate programs, again in order, were: Rice University, the University of California Los Angeles, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Washington University in St. Louis, Babson College, University of Washington, The University of Texas at Austin, University of Virginia, Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and the University of South Florida. No Tennessee university cracked the top 50 list of graduate programs.

The full rankings can be found here.

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