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

Average Percent of Students Entering VC and/or PE (5%)

An entrepreneurial mindset isn’t just about launching a business or working at an early-stage startup. Evaluating ventures is another piece. That’s why we also include the average percentage of MBAs entering venture capital and/or private equity jobs. The data below are the average percentage of MBAs going into VC and/or PE from the Classes of 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

School VC Average
Stanford University Graduate School of Business 22.50%
Harvard Business School 18.44%
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 13.40%
DePaul University 8.50%
University of Chicago (Booth) 8.15%
Columbia Business School 7.13%
MIT (Sloan) 5.15%
Babson College 4.58%
Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) 3.75%
INSEAD 3.30%
University of California-Berkeley (Haas) 3.23%
University of Texas at Austin (McCombs) 2.65%
City University of London (Bayes) 2.30%
University of Minnesota (Carlson) 2.25%
University of Michigan (Ross) 2.00%
Georgetown (McDonough) 1.90%
Brigham Young University (Marriott) 1.83%
ESADE 1.75%
University of California-San Diego (Rady) 1.70%
IE Business School 1.56%
Rice University (Jones) 1.50%
Yale University School of Management 1.38%
New York University (Stern) 1.28%
Southern Methodist University (Cox) 1.25%
Boston University (Questrom) 1.25%
University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Isenberg) 1.00%
University of Wisconsin-Madison 1.00%
Duke University (Fuqua) 0.57%
University of Oregon (Lundquist) 0.50%
Cornell University (SC Johnson) 0.48%
Northwestern University (Kellogg) 0.44%
Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 0.40%
College of William & Mary (Mason) 0.00%
Arizona State University (W. P. Carey) 0.00%
University of Arizona (Eller) 0.00%
Rutgers Business School 0.00%
Texas Christian University (Neeley) 0.00%
CEIBS 0.00%

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