2023 marked the fifth consecutive year that The Princeton Review has named the Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Houston the top American undergraduate entrepreneurship program. Diane Z. Chase, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, is pleased but not surprised.

“Recent rankings are proof that UH and the C. T. Bauer College of Business are committed to supporting the achievements of aspiring entrepreneurs and contributing to the economic growth of our nation,” Chase says.

Even before its first-place streak, UH had made it into Princeton’s Top 10 every year since 2007. Institutions are evaluated based on factors like their programming, mentorships and graduates’ business success rates. The Wolff Center offers 38 entrepreneurship courses, and its graduates have gone on to found more than 6,000 businesses in the past decade.

Established in 1991, the program has focused on continuous improvement. Executive Director Dave Cook describes a vision of the near future: “You will be able to come to the Wolff Center and not only be assigned a mentor; you will be able to speak to a patent attorney, obtain help with website design and social media, receive a stipend to get your prototype made.”

All of this is made possible by the continued generosity of the Wolff family and supporters like the Wayne Duddlesten Foundation, which recently donated $5 million for the expansion of the program.