Olin Business School, Washington University

Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in entrepreneurship. Experiential learning is a major component of all courses that include consulting projects with early-stage startups in St. Louis, Hungary, and Israel; business plan development; business plan competitions; management of a venture capital investment fund; and the opportunity to form startup teams with students from multiple disciplines campus-wide. The university's Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies sponsors two annual business plan competitions: the Olin Cup for commercial ventures and the YouthBridge Social Enterprise and Innovation Competition, speakers, internships, and mentoring programs. The Princeton Review's 2012 Best Entrepreneurship Programs in the U.S. ranked Washington University No. 5 and No. 6 at the undergraduate and graduate levels respectively.