All Of The Data Behind This Year’s MBA Entrepreneurship Ranking

Elective Courses (15%)

Also weighted at 15% is the percentage of elective courses focused solely on entrepreneurship or innovation offered to MBAs during the 2020-2021 academic year. Harvard Business School led with right about half of its elective MBA courses being 100% focused on entrepreneurship or innovation. Offering plenty of entrepreneurship-focused courses for MBAs is one of the most basic ways to foster an entrepreneurial environment, which is why this also gets the highest weight given to a data point.

School Elective Courses
Harvard Business School 49.71%
CEIBS 46.81%
University of Chicago (Booth) 33.33%
City University of London (Bayes) 31.70%
University of California-Berkeley (Haas) 31.08%
Northwestern University (Kellogg) 30.90%
IE Business School 30.10%
Babson College 28.00%
Rice University (Jones) 27.00%
Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) 23.00%
MIT (Sloan) 22.78%
INSEAD 22.43%
Brigham Young University (Marriott) 22.10%
University of Michigan (Ross) 22.00%
Stanford University Graduate School of Business 21.58%
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 21.15%
University of Texas at Austin (McCombs) 21.00%
New York University (Stern) 21.00%
University of California-San Diego (Rady) 21.00%
Columbia Business School 20.58%
ESADE 20.00%
Duke University (Fuqua) 19.00%
Boston University (Questrom) 19.00%
Arizona State University (W. P. Carey) 17.00%
Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 16.00%
Georgetown (McDonough) 16.00%
Yale University School of Management 15.70%
Southern Methodist University (Cox) 15.38%
DePaul University 14.40%
University of Minnesota (Carlson) 14.00%
University of Oregon (Lundquist) 13.00%
Cornell University (SC Johnson) 12.00%
University of Arizona (Eller) 9.71%
University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Isenberg) 9.00%
College of William & Mary (Mason) 8.00%
Rutgers Business School 6.80%
Texas Christian University (Neeley) 4.94%
University of Wisconsin-Madison 0.00%

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