Babson's Start-Up Career Fair

Babson College is holding a Start-Up Career Fair April 15th (Tax Day!) on campus. If your start-up is hunting for undergrad or MBA students as interns, part-timers, full-timers, or to toil on short-term projects, here's where you can register to participate.

[ Note: Corrected date. ]

Student Brainstorming

What are some of the ways we can better connect graduating students with the innovation economy here in New England? That's the topic of today's Globe column, and I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.

From the column:

The greatest renewable natural resource we've got in New England is smart young people. Hundreds of thousands of them are getting educated in our region right now; in Massachusetts alone, about 75,000 will earn degrees come May. And once springtime approaches, most graduates will return home or seek their fortunes elsewhere - often in Silicon Valley.

A study commissioned by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce last month found that over the next five years, Massachusetts will have the lowest rate of population growth of any state, when you're looking specifically at people 25 years old or older who've earned at least a bachelor's degree. Joining us on the laggards list are neighboring states Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Maine.

"Our problem in New England is that the ripe entrepreneur-age kids are leaving in droves," says [Angelo] Santinelli, a consultant and ex-venture capitalist who also teaches entrepreneurship at Babson College in Wellesley. "Our biggest export is brains."

Here's a video clip of a recent chat I had with venture capitalist and entrepreneur Bob Metcalfe on the topic.

And an earlier blog post here graded Boston's networking groups and trade associations based on how welcoming they are of students.

Top 50 Schools for Entrepreneurs: Who's on the List from Boston?

Entrepreneur Magazine has published its annual list of the Top 25 graduate and undergrad schools for entrepreneurs.

The big news is that Wellesley's Babson College has jumped from #10 to #1 on the list of undergrad programs, and from #22 to #2 on the list of graduate programs. (Babson is the only local school on that list, so I'll only publish the undergrad list here, which includes a second Boston-area school.)

Top 25 Undergrad Programs for Entrepreneurship

Babson College
University of Houston
Drexel University
The University of Arizona
University of Dayton
Chapman University
DePaul University
Temple University
University of North Dakota
Loyola Marymount University
Wichita State University
Syracuse University
University of Notre Dame
University of Maryland
University of Oklahoma
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Xavier University
The University of Alabama
University of Southern California
Ball State University
The University of Iowa
Brigham Young University
Baylor University
Northeastern University
The Ohio State University