CSULB
entrepreneurship program makes top 100
By Michelle Siazon
Summer On-line Forty-Niner
Cal
State Long Beach’s entrepreneurship program
has been recognized in the list of Top 100
U.S. Colleges and Universities for entrepreneurs
in the may issue of Entrepreneur Magazine.
“This is exciting news for the CBA because
the entrepreneurship program is young and
getting a ranking is a great incentive to
start a major,” said Associate Dean of the
College of Business Administration Mohammed
Khan.
The entrepreneurship program was started
in the Fall of 2001 as a minor program in
the department of human resource management.
There is a Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
within the College of Business Administration,
in which students can learn the challenges
and rewards of entrepreneur-ship through
experience in working with small, but high-growth
companies. The center has been running for
almost four years now and they are seeking
outside funding said Khan.
Some alumni who have been successful in
starting their own businesses are Dennis
L. Devereaux, co-founder of Corinthian Colleges,
Inc., a large for-profit post-secondary
education organization with 61 colleges
in 20 states, Wayne W. Murdy is the chairman
and CEO of Newmont Mining Co., a large gold
producer and A. Maury Myers, chairman, president
and CEO of Waste Management, Inc., which
is a premier waste services provider.
“This should become a very popular program
because many people from different disciplines
start their own businesses,” Kahn said.
“They can learn about the risks of starting
their own business and find out how to make
their business successful.”
CSULB was ranked in the fourth tier of the
list of the top 50 regionally recognized
academic programs in the country. Entrepreneur
Magazine’s first annual evaluation of the
best entrepreneurship programs at U.S. colleges
and universities is the foremost analysis
of its kind. Research study to determine
the rankings of school programs listed in
the Top 100 U.S. Colleges and Universities
for entrepreneurs was conducted by TechKnowledge
Point Corporation, a research and referral
exchange in Santa Barbara, Ca.
Over 700 entrepreneurship programs were
researched from September to December 2002
for this study and the final rankings were
based on more than 30 criteria. Parts of
the programs that were analyzed were business-community
outreaches, course offerings, research centers
and institutes, faculty and alumni evaluations,
advisory boards, teaching and research faculty,
other entrepreneurial initiatives, off-campus
programs and degrees and certificates offered.
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