TUSCALOOSA, Ala. —The undergraduate entrepreneurship program at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce is No. 21 in the 2010 rankings by The Princeton Review.
The magazine compared more than 2,000 institutions.
Dr. J. Barry Mason, dean of the Culverhouse College of Commerce, said the ranking is a reflection of the hard work of a number of different partnerships across the UA campus and is indicative of the emphasis the business school is placing on entrepreneurship.
“Our entrepreneurship program is aimed at developing and promoting the spirit of entrepreneurship across the campus, the community and the state,” Mason said. “The people who guide our entrepreneurship program have established initiatives in high schools, online, with social service agencies and in a number of communities hit hard by the recession.
“The experiential learning our students receive gives them a solid base for establishing the small businesses that are the bedrock of our economy.”
Mason said a new position, the Will and Maggie Brooke Professor of Entrepreneurship, has been funded, and Dr. James Combs will join the faculty in that position in May 2011. Combs is executive director of the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship at Florida State University.
“We have a strong entrepreneurial program already in place,” Mason said, “and Dr. Combs will bring additional expertise in franchising as an entrepreneurial growth strategy, executive compensation and corporate governance, performance measurement, knowledge aggregation and family business.”
This is the third consecutive year the entrepreneurship program has been ranked in the top 25.
Contact
Bill Gerdes, UA media relations, 205/348-8318, bgerdes@cba.ua.edu