NC State Has the #19 Best Undergrad Program for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur magazine ranked the Top-25 schools with the best undergraduate programs for entrepreneurs, and NC State ranked 19th.

Here’s what they had to say about NC State:

The entrepreneurship center at North Carolina State University was established in 2008. It currently offers 28 entrepreneurship-related undergraduate courses. Over the last five years, its graduates have started 66 companies and have collectively raised over $222.5 million in funding. Over the last 10 years, its graduates have started 82 companies and have collectively raised over $257 million in funding.

During the 2016-17 academic year North Carolina State University students won $42,000 in prize money at competitions they participated in.

Fifty-nine percent of its undergraduate entrepreneurship faculty has started, bought or run a successful business, and 45 individual mentors worked with students through an officially sponsored school program. (Entrepreneur)