Tuck | Mr. Invest In Change
GMAT 710, GPA 3.1
Tuck | Mr. Chemical Engineer
GRE 326, GPA 3
INSEAD | Mr. Future AI Product Manager
GMAT 715, GPA 3.7
NYU Stern | Mr. Operations Strategy & Youth Leadership
GMAT 770, GPA 4
IE Business School | Mr. JD Garay
GRE GPA: 3.9, GPA 3.0
Kellogg SOM | Mr. Military To Entrepreneur
GMAT 745, GPA 2.38
London Business School | Mr. Decarbonisation
GMAT 695, GPA 3.5
Kellogg SOM | Mr. MENA Growth Equity
GMAT 730, GPA 3.4
Kellogg SOM | Mr. West Point Logistics
GRE 327, GPA 2.76
Harvard | Mr. Energy & AI PM
GRE 328, GPA 9.65
Tepper | Mr. Tech Mil-Veteran
GMAT TBD, GPA 3.35
Columbia | Mr. European MBB Consultant
GMAT 645 (Gmat Focus), GPA 8.2
MIT Sloan | Mr. Startup Strategy
GMAT 720, GPA 3.7
Stanford GSB | Mr. Mid-Market PE
GMAT 770, GPA 4
Stanford GSB | Mr. MBB Guy From Big 4 & Startup
GRE 325, GPA 3

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

by: Kristy Bleizeffer on November 12, 2024

ENTREPRENEURSHIP CORE COURSES (2.5%)

Each year, we’ve asked schools to report the percentage of core courses in the MBA program with 100% of the course dedicated to entrepreneurship and/or innovation.

Percentage of MBA Core Courses with Entrepreneurship Focus 
Category Rank School Core Courses
1 Clemson University (Powers) 67.00%
2 IE Business School 40.70%
3 DePaul University 30.00%
4 INSEAD 26.00%
5 Esade Business School 25.00%
6 Johnson Cornell Tech MBA 20.00%
7 University of California-San Diego (Rady) 18.00%
8 ESMT Berlin 15.00%
9 London Business School 14.00%
10 University of Texas at Austin (McCombs) 13.33%
11 University of Oregon (Lundquist) 13.00%
12 Babson College 12.50%
13 Arizona State University (W. P. Carey) 12.00%
14 Brigham Young University (Marriott) 11.80%
14 Duke University (Fuqua) 11.80%
16 Boston University (Questrom) 10.70%
17 University of Virginia (Darden) 10.00%
18 University of Arizona (Eller) 7.14%
19 Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) 7.00%
20 City St George’s, University of London (Bayes) 6.70%
21 Texas Christian University (Neeley) 6.25%
22 EDHEC Business School 5.00%
23 University of Michigan (Ross) 4.00%
24 Rice University (Jones) 3.70%
25 UCLA (Anderson) 3.51%
26 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 0.00%
26 Georgetown University (McDonough) 0.00%
26 New York University (Stern) 0.00%
26 Rutgers Business School 0.00%
26 Southern Methodist University (Cox) 0.00%
26 University of Minnesota (Carlson) 0.00%

PERCENTAGE OF MBA STUDENTS INVOLVED WITH A STARTUP (2.5%)

Another new category from two years ago is the percentage of MBA students directly involved with a startup or startup project during the 2023-2024 academic year.

Four schools reported all of its MBAs were involved with a startup in some capacity that year: EDHEC, Esade, Southern Methodist University (Cox), and Washington University in St. Louis (Olin).

Percentage of MBAs Involved in a Startup
Category Rank School
% of MBA Student Startup Involvement
1 EDHEC Business School 100.00%
1 Esade Business School 100.00%
1 Southern Methodist University (Cox) 100.00%
1 Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) 100.00%
5 Rice University (Jones) 90.79%
6 Boston University (Questrom) 86.06%
7 Johnson Cornell Tech MBA 75.00%
7 London Business School 75.00%
9 City St George’s, University of London (Bayes) 72.20%
10 Arizona State University (W. P. Carey) 72.00%
11 University of Michigan (Ross) 69.00%
12 ESMT Berlin 59.00%
13 IE Business School 55.00%
14 Babson College 52.24%
15 INSEAD 52.00%
16 Brigham Young University (Marriott) 51.00%
17 University of California-San Diego (Rady) 49.00%
18 Duke University (Fuqua) 45.40%
19 UCLA (Anderson) 41.70%
20 Texas Christian University (Neeley) 41.50%
21 University of Virginia (Darden) 38.20%
22 Clemson University (Powers) 33.00%
23 University of Minnesota (Carlson) 30.30%
24 New York University (Stern) 29.70%
25 Georgetown University (McDonough) 23.00%
26 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 20.00%
26 DePaul University 20.00%
28 Rutgers Business School 16.90%
29 University of Texas at Austin (McCombs) 14.00%
30 University of Arizona (Eller) 10.00%
30 University of Oregon (Lundquist) 10.00%

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