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Fox School Earns High Ranking by Princeton Review

The Fox School has received its best ranking ever from the Princeton Review, at number 10 for its graduate program and number 8 for its undergraduate program.

Entrepreneurship training is the main criteria by which the Review judges schools competing for ranking.

Competing schools are charged with completing a complex, multi-page survey that takes into account entrepreneurship-focused classes, businesses started by alumni, faculty who are also entrepreneurs and/or who serve on the boards of new ventures, and entrepreneurship-focused activities, clubs, events and programs.

Dean of the Fox School, Moshe Porat, said in a press release, “I think our students have had more of an entrepreneurial drive. We have created a lot of tools for them. For example, there’s a program at the undergrad level where students come in their first year and they are all exposed to a class about [the startup of a business].”

The Fox School boasts a 380 percent enrollment increase for graduate programs, and a 220 percent increase for undergrads since 2011. Fox has awarded over $200,000 in entrepreneurial awards at the Be Your Own Boss Bowl, a business plan competition for students, alumni, and faculty from each of Temple’s 17 schools. The goal of the competition is to encourage the inception of a sustainable small business.

University President Neil Theobold said in a statement, “Across disciplines, and in all of our schools and colleges, we prepare students to be ‘real-world ready.’ We empower them to take charge of their futures and find success in fields that have not yet been invented.”

About the Author

Maggie Boccella, a lifelong resident of Philadelphia, is a freelance writer, artist and photographer. She has consulted on various film and multimedia projects, and she also serves as a juror for the city's annual LGBTQIA Film Festival.

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