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With Entrepreneurship in Vogue, Colleges Beef Up Offerings (Infographic) Looking to snag go-getters' attention, universities are ramping up entrepreneurship courses.

By Andrea Huspeni

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As entrepreneurship is becoming a mainstream career path, more people are heading to school to learn Startup 101. And colleges are taking note.

Today there are more than 2,364 post-secondary institutions offering entrepreneurship and small business certificates, up a whopping 906 percent from 10 years ago, according to for-profit Rasmussen College.

Related: What Business Schools Don't Teach Students But Should

People are taking advantage of these offerings with 600,000 students taking at least one class focused on entrepreneurship a year. For these students, it seems to help them pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. Of those that took at least one entrepreneurial course, 51 percent worked at a startup and 39 percent founded a company, as opposed to the 35 percent and 26 percent who did not take a course respectively.

Want to know more titillating facts about entrepreneurship taking over colleges? Check out the infographic below presented by Rasmussen College and designed by creative agency Column Five.

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With Entrepreneursenhip in Vogue, Colleges Beef Up Offerings (Infographic)

Andrea Huspeni

Founder of This Dog's Life

Andrea Huspeni is the former special projects director at Entrepreneur.com and the founder of This Dog's Life.

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