Washington University has the nation's sixth-best graduate and undergraduate programs for educating entrepreneurs, according to new rankings by Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.
According to the magazine, Washington U's Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies has 709 undergraduate and 220 graduate students. In addition to traditional classroom work, Skandalaris' programs include IdeaBounce, in which would-be entrepreneurs present their ideas to experienced business people, and the Olin Cup, an annual competition that invests $5,000 in a winning student's startup company.
According to a university news release, the school's undergraduate program climbed three spots in this year's Entrepreneur rankings and the graduate program climbed four spots.
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