Oklahoma State University’s School of Entrepreneurship has received numerous honors in recent years but earning the National Model Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program Award by the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) is one of the most prestigious honors in the program’s short history.
The OSU School of Entrepreneurship is just in its fourth year of existence and is already attracting national attention from USASBE, the premier organization for entrepreneur educators, and is recognized as a leader across the nation.
“This award indicates that we are at the leading edge in terms of a comprehensive approach to entrepreneurship education,” Michael Morris, director of the School of Entrepreneurship, said. “Our approach to curriculum design, student engagement, experiental learning, infrastructure development and community outreach represent a model that other universities can learn from.
The award is just another sign of the school’s impact since the program began in 2008. In the past 12 months, OSU’s School of Entrepreneurship has received a research productivity world ranking of No. 10 (by the M.J. Neeley School of Business at TCU), was one of the few schools to have its undergraduate program (No. 24) and graduate program (No. 23) ranked among the nation’s top 25 (The Princeton Review/Entrepreneur Magazine), and the student-led E-Club was No. 9 in the 2011 Top 20 University Entrepreneurship Club rankings (FledgeWing.com).