Leading Entrepreneurship

I feel personally compelled to congratulate the staff and faculty at the University of South Florida’s Center for Entrepreneurship for yet another major achievement.

Last night The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine raised it’s ranking of USF’s graduate program in entrepreneurship from #9 in the country to #5. That is incredible for a program that is so relatively new. I applaud Michael, Bill, Steve, Lu, Sean and the rest of the gang over there for a job well done.

From their overview: “The university provides international leadership in the area of interdisciplinary entrepreneurship with a focus on interdisciplinary life sciences entrepreneurship supported by 12 full-time teaching faculty and four part-time adjunct professional faculty. The school’s programs are effective in aiding technology transfer and commercialization and have assisted in the launch of more than 40 new ventures in the past four years using university-based technologies. The entrepreneurship students have provided on an annual basis more than 60,000 man-hours of consulting assistance to local entrepreneurial organizations and businesses, both not-for-profit, socially aware and for-profit organizations.”

And as they say in the ads: I’m not just a proponent, I’m also a graduate.

However, if he becomes too successful, I may have to start circulating a “Keep Dr. Fountain in Tampa” petition.