Deseret News profiles Lassonde Institute, Eccles School’s entrepreneurship rankings
The University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business recently was ranked by the Princeton Review as one the country’s top schools for entrepreneurship education — No. 3 in the West and No. 24 in the United States.
These rankings drew the attention of Deseret News reporter Jason Swensen, who came to campus to tour the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute and learn how its immersive, experiential approach prepares students to navigate what he called “the often turbulent world of entrepreneurship.”
The reporter spoke with several Lassonde students, as well as Eccles School dean Kurt Dirks, and Troy D’Ambrosio, the university’s vice president for innovation and the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute’s executive director, for an article that appeared in both the Deseret News and on KSL.com.
Ali Phillips, who is pursuing a Master of Business Creation degree, highlighted the uniqueness and importance of having so many professors possessed of real-world experience in entrepreneurship, as opposed to merely being theorists.
Dean Dirks, meanwhile, spoke to the Eccles School’s approach in promoting a specific mindset in its academic programming.
“Not all of our students are going to go out and become entrepreneurs,” he said, “but they will have the mindset that they can go out and make stuff happen.”
