All Of The Data Behind P&Q’s 2025 Top MBA Programs For Entrepreneurship

PERCENT OF STUDENTS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUB (10%)

Another indicator of a healthy entrepreneurial environment is the number of students in the school’s main entrepreneurship club. That’s why we give the metric a 10% weight in the methodology.

At Michigan Ross, 80% of MBAs were members of the main entrepreneurship club during the academic year. That’s 15% more than the percent who were members last year (65%) when Ross also topped this metric.

IE Business School in Spain had the second most MBAs in its entrepreneurship club at 62.7%, followed by Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business at 61%.

Percent of Students in Entrepreneurship Club

Category Rank School
% of Students in Ent. Club
1 University of Michigan (Ross) 80.00%
2 IE Business School 62.70%
3 Arizona State University (W. P. Carey) 61.00%
4 Esade Business School 52.00%
4 London Business School 52.00%
6 Duke University (Fuqua) 50.80%
7 Babson College 45.00%
7 Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) 45.00%
9 INSEAD 43.00%
10 Boston University (Questrom) 36.63%
11 University of Texas at Austin (McCombs) 36.00%
12 Georgetown University (McDonough) 32.32%
13 Texas Christian University (Neeley) 28.00%
14 EDHEC Business School 25.60%
15 DePaul University 25.00%
16 University of Oregon (Lundquist) 24.00%
17 UCLA (Anderson) 21.00%
18 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 20.00%
18 University of Virginia (Darden) 20.00%
20 City St George’s, University of London (Bayes) 19.40%
21 Brigham Young University (Marriott) 18.90%
22 University of Minnesota (Carlson) 18.70%
23 New York University (Stern) 12.50%
24 ESMT Berlin 11.00%
24 Johnson Cornell Tech MBA 11.00%
26 University of California-San Diego (Rady) 9.00%
27 Rice University (Jones) 6.03%
28 Southern Methodist University (Cox) 3.53%
29 Clemson University (Powers) 0.00%
29 Rutgers Business School 0.00%
29 University of Arizona (Eller) 0.00%

 

RATIO OF INCUBATOR AND ACCELERATOR SPACE TO MBAS (10%)

Having the space to work and launch a company is important, not to mention the support, expertise, and resources incubator space tends to attract.

We asked schools to report the total square footage of on-campus incubator and accelerator space that was available to MBA students during the 2023-2024 academic year. We then calculated a ratio based on the total number of MBAs enrolled during the same academic year. The ratio below is the square footage of incubator or accelerator space available to each Class of 2024 MBA per school.

Ratio of MBA Students to Incubator and Accelerator Space

Category Rank School Incubator Ratio Square feet
2024 MBA grads
1 University of California-San Diego (Rady) 1,907.02 78,188 41
2 ESMT Berlin 1,255.77 37,673 30
3 Arizona State University (W. P. Carey) 1,041.10 61,425 59
4 Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) 561.36 51,084 91
5 Rutgers Business School 516.13 16,000 31
6 University of Oregon (Lundquist) 500.00 27,000 54
7 EDHEC Business School 369.14 28,793 78
8 DePaul University 340.91 15,000 44
9 University of Texas at Austin (McCombs) 249.68 54,929 220
10 Brigham Young University (Marriott) 221.93 21,305 96
11 University of Arizona (Eller) 209.26 5,650 27
12 Rice University (Jones) 190.42 29,324 154
13 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 158.97 31,000 195
14 IE Business School 158.16 31,000 196
15 City St George’s, University of London (Bayes) 153.06 7,500 49
16 Boston University (Questrom) 136.36 21,000 154
17 University of Minnesota (Carlson) 132.56 8,749 66
18 Babson College 88.59 16,477 186
19 New York University (Stern) 86.40 27,390 317
20 Southern Methodist University (Cox) 83.33 5,000 60
21 University of Virginia (Darden) 82.94 28,613 345
22 UCLA (Anderson) 82.17 25,800 314
23 Texas Christian University (Neeley) 76.50 2,295 30
24 Duke University (Fuqua) 73.70 29,257 397
25 Clemson University (Powers) 38.44 2,268 59
26 Esade Business School 21.73 3,954 182
27 University of Michigan (Ross) 17.94 6,800 379
28 Johnson Cornell Tech MBA 15.02 1,322 88
29 Georgetown University (McDonough) 10.68 2,585 242
30 London Business School 4.06 2,000 493
31 INSEAD 0.00 0 843