If you have an idea for a business, plan to be your own boss, or want a vital competitive edge in the job market, the top-ranked McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship will give you the tools you need to move your goals forward.
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The University of Arizona is home to one of the nation's and world’s best academic programs in entrepreneurship—and that program is open to students from all fields of study—senior undergraduate through post doctorate.
Entrepreneurial principles and skills are the cornerstones to advancing innovative and meaningful ideas to reality. Whether you know you were born to be an entrepreneur—or never expect to wear that title, the McGuire Entrepreneurship Program in uniquely designed to prepare you to realize greater success and ability to move the ideas about which you are passionate.
Turn Ideas into Reality
Entrepreneurship is more than a business plan. And though you will create a viable plan in the program — and own the intellectual property rights to that plan with your team — you will also leave with the skills to turn ideas into reality.
Application materials will be available and applications will be accepted beginning November 3, 2008.
Preferred selection will begin on January 28.
Class of 2010 invitations will be made during the month of March.
Orientation and class of 2009 year end events will occur throughout April. All will be open to class of 2010 members.
In addition to spring orientations, successful applicants will participate in (limited) summer coursework, and fall 2009 and spring 2010 classes and team activities outside of class.
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Recognition of the McGuire Center’s excellence has come in many guises, including current top 1 and 2 rankings among graduate and undergraduate programs in public institutions by both U.S. News and World Report and by Princeton Review / Entrepreneur magazine. It is also ranked #6 globally by Financial Times. The program has held top tier ratings in all surveys for over a decade. No other school or program has been as consistently highly ranked as the McGuire Center.
Other premier accolades include:
Recognized for excellence by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship at both graduate and undergraduate levels
Recipient of the inaugural NASDAQ Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence Award
Recipient of the 2008 NASDAQ Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence Award – the only Center to have received this award twice
Forbes/Money designation as among best schools for entrepreneurs in every category in which the program has offerings: MBA, undergraduate, double majors, social entrepreneur, and best professor
Best value in entrepreneurship education by BusinessWeek magazine
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