The University of Connecticut School of Business was ranked in the top 30 in Princeton Review’s rankings for graduate entrepreneurship programs.
At No. 28, UConn’s business school is in the top 15% of more than 300 schools that the Princeton Review considered. It’s position is one below the George Washington University School of Business, and one above the Boston University Questrom School of Business.
UConn President Thomas Katsouleas said the ranking is a recognition of the university’s increasing focus on entrepreneurship.
“[The ranking] validates the strategic priority that UConn, the state, and our generous donors have placed on supporting entrepreneurship and innovation,” Katsouleas said.
Katsouleas entered UConn’s corner office last year with a mandate to pump up the school’s research funding and entrepreneurship programs. He set out to put UConn on a path to becoming a higher-education mecca for innovators looking to advance research, make discoveries and commercialize those inventions.
However, extreme budget shortfalls at UConn driven by the COVID-19 have forced the university into survival mode in recent months. Katsouleas announced earlier this month that UConn will end a program that provides tuition money to low-income students.
In August UConn canceled its 2020 football season, and that was after a June decision to end four other sports programs: women’s rowing, men’s tennis, men’s cross country and swimming, and diving, as the school projected a $47 million budget shortfall for the fall semester.
