Famous Entrepreneur Alumni

It is a fact that choosing the right college can have a great influence on your future life. You should choose a university that has to offer all of the programs and tools you will need as a future entrepreneur. Some of the programs you choose will help you build up a good career, they will inform and inspire so your dreams can come true.

If you want to be one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the United States then you should definitely try out one of its best colleges and that is Stanford University. It is located in Stanford, California and it is one of the best private research universities in the States. It has three traditional and four professional schools which consist of academic departments at the undergraduate and graduate level. They focus on law, medicine, education and of course business. Stanford is considered to be one of the most successful universities that send out people who create and license companies, people who make inventions to the existing companies and it is also considered to be a model for technology transfer. Students are often motivated to launch their own companies such as “Yahoo!” and “Google” whose co-founders were Stanford’s students.

The important departments concerning business which Stanford has to offer are accounting, e-commerce, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, general management, leadership, human resources management, marketing, not-for-profit management, production/operations management, organizational behavior, portfolio management, public administration, public policy, real estate, sports business, supply chain management/logistics, quantitative analysis/statistics and operations research, and technology.

Stanford is ranked number 2 in Best Business Schools, being #2 in Entrepreneurship and #2 in Marketing. So if you want to be best from the rest and start your own business, Stanford University is the place for you!

When in China, you should try out their best school for management - “Fudan University”. It was founded in 1905 and since then it has been one of the biggest universities in finance and business. It is situated in Shanghai, China and it is widely considered to be the most prestigious university in China. If you ask any undergraduate which university they would pick for further studies, they would say “Fundan”. A lot of courses are taught in English and this institution likes to boast global connections and has a lot of exchange programs with almost 200 overseas universities. They think that every student can have a liberal arts approach to education because they like to highlight the individual development of the character and an understanding of different cultures and values. The university likes to motivate students to work on their own projects and they can get undergraduate academic research financial aid platforms that assist 500 students each year with funding their own independent academic research. There are over 300 clubs and organizations for the involvement of the students as well as more than 2,000 club events for the extra-curricular activities.

Last but not least is Prague College, the British University in Prague. It was founded in 2003 with a vision to create an environment that connects the nature of the business, IT and design. They believe in the creative power of teaching and learning and they like to emphasize that teaching is best in small group seminars, with continuous feedback, not just with grades, they focus on strategy including governance, ethics, and social responsibility. Through the learning experience, they like to bring employers directly into the classroom. Swapping ideas with budding designers, artists, programmers, and journalists is a must and they think it is of great value for future entrepreneurs.

All in all, before applying to any university, you should think through every option. What would you like to study, what would you like to do and how do you see yourself in the future. Don’t worry, pieces of the puzzle will simply fit together.