"It's a betting game, " says Jeffrey Carr, executive director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at New York University.

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At number one in the graduate school list is the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.

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The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies has excellent resources for those considering a search fund, with annual reports on search fund performance and detailed documents to help you get started.

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