Northeastern’s College of Business Administration has earned some impressive recognition in recent months.

For one, Forbes magazine ranked Northeastern fourth among America's most entrepreneurial campuses.

And another study found the business faculty had published more articles in the top three business journals than most of their contemporaries, making Northeastern the tenth-highest producing university in the world in the area of international business research.

The Forbes ranking cited the university's Center for Family Business, new School of Technological Entrepreneurship, annual $60K Business Plan Competition, and outstanding classes. "Only a few of the nation's more than 2,000 colleges are concentrating on producing tomorrow's great entrepreneurs," wrote the magazine in its online edition, found at .

Yet twenty-five top schools, Forbes wrote, "are teaching their undergraduates how to start their own business, and are supporting them with everything from mentoring to venture funds."

President Freeland calls the ranking "a wonderful confirmation of what we have always known to be true about Northeastern, which is that we are enormously productive in terms of graduating alumni who add value to the economy by creating businesses and innovating in the corporate sector."

The Princeton Review, which conducted the research used by Forbes, solicited data from 357 universities in total.

The publishing accomplishments were outlined in the Management International Review, which found the business faculty had published fifteen articles in the three best international business journals, putting the university ahead of most of its peers.

That's quite an achievement considering the competition, says associate professor of general business Chris Robertson.

"Of the top ten schools, eight of them have PhD programs in business. We do not. Five of the universities have hosted editors of the top three journals, and we have not," Robertson says. "I think this speaks to the initiative of our faculty."

The study analyzed 900 articles published by 600 institutions.

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