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

AVERAGE PERCENT OF STUDENTS JOINING A STARTUP (2.5%)

Not everyone wants to launch a company. Others want to join an early-stage startup, which we also believe takes an entrepreneurial mindset.

A data point added two years ago was the average percentage of students joining an early-stage startup (ten years or younger) within three months of graduation in the Classes of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Percentage of MBAs Joining Startups
Category Rank	School	Join Average
1	IE Business School	29.36%
2	Esade Business School	21.40%
3	Babson College	20.80%
4	ESMT Berlin	17.40%
5	Johnson Cornell Tech MBA	15.52%
6	Boston University (Questrom)	14.74%
7	INSEAD	14.40%
8	EDHEC Business School	13.50%
9	Texas Christian University (Neeley)	12.34%
10	University of Oregon (Lundquist)	12.20%
11	Brigham Young University (Marriott)	11.88%
12	City St George’s, University of London (Bayes)	11.36%
13	London Business School	10.00%
14	University of California-San Diego (Rady)	9.86%
15	UCLA (Anderson)	9.82%
16	Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)	9.00%
17	Georgetown University (McDonough)	8.35%
18	University of Michigan (Ross)	8.00%
19	Rice University (Jones)	7.88%
20	University of Texas at Austin (McCombs)	6.01%
21	University of Minnesota (Carlson)	5.88%
22	DePaul University	5.60%
23	New York University (Stern)	4.82%
24	Rutgers Business School	4.16%
25	University of Arizona (Eller)	3.90%
26	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	3.68%
27	University of Virginia (Darden)	3.28%
28	Duke University (Fuqua)	2.64%
29	Arizona State University (W. P. Carey)	1.48%
30	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	1.40%
31	Clemson University (Powers)	0.00%

PERCENTAGE OF MBAS TAKING AN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ELECTIVE (2.5%)

Another new data point added two years ago asked schools to report the percentage of MBAs that took an elective course in entrepreneurship during the 2023-2024 academic year.

ESMT Berlin reported that 100% of its MBAs took at least one entrepreneurial elective last year.

Percentage of MBAs Taking an Entrepreneurship Elective
Category Rank	School	% MBAs Taking Ent. Elective
1	ESMT Berlin	100.00%
2	University of Virginia (Darden)	99.00%
3	Duke University (Fuqua)	96.50%
4	Johnson Cornell Tech MBA	92.00%
5	IE Business School	90.90%
6	Arizona State University (W. P. Carey)	90.00%
6	Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)	90.00%
8	City St George’s, University of London (Bayes)	87.80%
9	INSEAD	85.00%
10	Esade Business School	84.00%
10	University of California-San Diego (Rady)	84.00%
12	University of Texas at Austin (McCombs)	82.00%
13	Rice University (Jones)	76.19%
14	Brigham Young University (Marriott)	76.00%
15	University of Michigan (Ross)	70.00%
16	UCLA (Anderson)	68.00%
17	Texas Christian University (Neeley)	64.60%
18	University of Oregon (Lundquist)	61.00%
19	EDHEC Business School	60.30%
20	Boston University (Questrom)	59.34%
21	Babson College	57.00%
21	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	57.00%
23	Georgetown University (McDonough)	52.00%
24	New York University (Stern)	48.00%
25	University of Minnesota (Carlson)	45.79%
26	Clemson University (Powers)	44.00%
27	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	41.60%
28	University of Arizona (Eller)	23.60%
29	London Business School	20.00%
30	Rutgers Business School	16.90%
31	DePaul University	2.00%