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Program Recognition



The Lester Center is proud that Haas has been nationally and internationally recognized as one of the elite entrepreneurship programs. Haas was ranked #6 in entrepreneurship programs in the 2009 ranking by the Financial Times. In the 2006 rankings Haas was recognized in the top five of entrepreneurship programs in BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times. The entrepreneurship program’s ranking has consistently been higher than the school’s overall ranking, thereby contributing to the perceived strength of the school.

In 2006 the Lester Center was awarded the NASDAQ Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence Award by the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (NCEC). This recognition by our peers as the leading program in the U.S. is especially gratifying.

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"Working with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, business leaders, policy makers, scholars and students, the Lester Center focuses the resources of UC Berkeley to stimulate the formation, management and growth of new enterprises; to encourage innovation in new and established companies; and to teach the process of successful entrepreneurship and business innovation."