The following universities have been ranked among the top 25 most entrepreneurial campuses in the US:

The University of New Hampshire (UNH) - It has been named one of the Top 25 Most Entrepreneurial Colleges by The Princeton Review and Forbes.com, ranking 10th in the country. It was the only public university in the Northeast to make the top 10. At UNH, undergraduates can participate in several mentoring opportunities. The High Tech Entrepreneurship Internship combines supervised work experience at an area company with seminar-style classroom discussion.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - It has been ranked as the nation's top university for fostering entrepreneurship across campus, according to The Princeton Review and Forbes.com. UNC also ranked 5th among the 25 "most connected campuses" in a separate ranking that measured "the technological capabilities of the country's best schools" and cutting-edge campuses.

Xavier University - It was named one of the “Top 25 Most Entrepreneurial Undergraduate Campuses in the Country” (ranked 11th) in a study released by The Princeton Review and Forbes.com (22 Oct 2004). Xavier offers a four-year degree in entrepreneurship studies and can boast of prominent alumni entrepreneurs such as Paul Cashen (co-founder and former president of PC on Call); Charles Geschke (co-founder in 1982 of Adobe Systems); etc.

Bradley University - The Princeton Review has named Bradley University 24th on the first annual list of “Top 25 Most Entrepreneurial Campuses”. To identify which schools qualified, The Princeton Review solicited data from 357 leading colleges and universities around the nation, asking them a series of questions about the various ways they encourage and train undergraduate students to become successful entrepreneurs. In addition, Bradley has been ranked among the top 10 schools with an entrepreneurial emphasis by Entrepreneur Magazine. In 2001 the University established The Turner Center for Entrepreneurship, which is designed to act as a regional hub to coordinate all small business development, entrepreneurship training and development activity in the North Central Illinois region.

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