Entrepreneurship PhD One of 12 Formal Programs in World

Release Date: Jun 05, 2007

UMKC is now one of 12 universities worldwide (and eight in the U.S.) with a formal, organized program in entrepreneurship.

The list below, relseased  in St. Louis University's eWeb Entrepreneurship Education Resources guide, gives the names of universities in North America and Europe which have a program or one or more doctoral level students in entrepreneurship, small business, family business, SME studies, or related fields. The list tries to cover those schools which have (1) one or more faculty whose primary area of research is entrepreneurship AND who have doctoral teaching or training responsibility and (2) one or more doctoral-level students currently doing research in entrepreneurship or an established track record of doctoral student graduates with a specialization in entrepreneurship. The list below offers over two dozen institutions which have met the above criteria.

• EM Lyon
• European Doctoral Program in Entrepreneurship
• Georgia
• Indiana
• Jonkoping International Business School
• Louisville 
• MIT
• Syracuse
• University of Houston [Ph.D. in Marketing and Entrepreneurship]
• University of the Incarnate Word [Ph.D. in International Education & Entrepreneurship]
• University of Missouri - Kansas City [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship and Innovation]
• University of Washington [Ph.D. in Technology Entrepreneurship]