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

by: Kristy Bleizeffer on November 12, 2024 | 1,847 Views

RATIO OF MENTORSHIP HOURS (2.5%)

Mentorship is an important resource for any budding entrepreneur or entrepreneurial thinker.

Our ranking measures two aspects of mentorship: The ratio of school-facilitated entrepreneurship-focused mentorship hours per MBA and the ratio of mentors available to MBA students during the last academic year.

In 2023-2024, Arizona State University (W. P. Carey) facilitated more than 70 mentorship hours per MBA in the Class of 2024. Rice (Jones), meanwhile, facilitated nearly 51 hours.

Ratio of MBAs to Entrepreneurship Mentor Hours
Category Rank School Mentor Hour Ratio Total Mentor Hours
2024 MBA grads
1 Arizona State University (W. P. Carey) 70.169 4140 59
2 Rice University (Jones) 50.734 7813 154
3 Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) 36.000 3,276 91
4 Johnson Cornell Tech MBA 16.523 1454 88
5 EDHEC Business School 14.301 1115.5 78
6 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 12.821 2500 195
7 Babson College 12.204 2,270 186
8 Texas Christian University (Neeley) 10.000 300 30
9 Brigham Young University (Marriott) 9.344 897 96
10 Duke University (Fuqua) 8.674 3443.75 397
11 University of Oregon (Lundquist) 8.333 450 54
12 London Business School 8.316 4100 493
13 New York University (Stern) 7.397 2,345 317
14 UCLA (Anderson) 7.389 2,320 314
15 DePaul University 3.409 150 44
16 Clemson University (Powers) 3.390 200 59
17 Southern Methodist University (Cox) 3.167 190 60
18 Esade Business School 3.033 552 182
19 ESMT Berlin 3.000 90 30
20 University of Virginia (Darden) 2.762 953 345
21 University of California-San Diego (Rady) 2.439 100 41
22 University of Texas at Austin (McCombs) 1.198 263.5 220
23 Boston University (Questrom) 1.130 174 154
24 University of Arizona (Eller) 1.111 30 27
25 Georgetown University (McDonough) 1.103 267 242
26 INSEAD 1.038 875 843
27 IE Business School 0.939 184 196
28 University of Michigan (Ross) 0.923 350 379
29 City St George’s, University of London (Bayes) 0.061 3 49
30 Rutgers Business School 0.000 0 31
30 University of Minnesota (Carlson) 0.000 0 66

 

RATIO OF MENTORS PER MBA STUDENT (2.5%)

We also asked schools to report the number of entrepreneurship-focused mentors available to MBA students during the last academic year.

At Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) there were about 4.47 entrepreneurship-focused mentors available to each Class of 2024 MBA student.

Ratio of Entrepreneurship Mentors Available to MBAs
Category Rank School Mentor Ratio # of Mentors
2024 MBA grads
1 Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) 4.473 407 91
2 Rice University (Jones) 4.286 660 154
3 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 3.590 700 195
4 Johnson Cornell Tech MBA 2.239 197 88
5 New York University (Stern) 2.148 681 317
6 University of Oregon (Lundquist) 2.111 114 54
7 Babson College 2.075 386 186
8 Arizona State University (W. P. Carey) 1.814 107 59
9 University of Minnesota (Carlson) 1.682 111 66
10 University of California-San Diego (Rady) 1.585 65 41
11 Brigham Young University (Marriott) 1.542 148 96
12 IE Business School 1.429 280 196
13 Boston University (Questrom) 1.370 211 154
14 Rutgers Business School 1.258 39 31
15 University of Michigan (Ross) 1.219 462 379
16 UCLA (Anderson) 1.070 336 314
17 ESMT Berlin 1.000 30 30
18 DePaul University 0.864 38 44
19 Esade Business School 0.736 134 182
20 Clemson University (Powers) 0.559 33 59
21 Texas Christian University (Neeley) 0.500 15 30
22 University of Virginia (Darden) 0.487 168 345
23 EDHEC Business School 0.449 35 78
24 Duke University (Fuqua) 0.355 141 397
25 Georgetown University (McDonough) 0.351 85 242
26 University of Texas at Austin (McCombs) 0.291 64 220
27 London Business School 0.288 142 493
28 University of Arizona (Eller) 0.185 5 27
29 Southern Methodist University (Cox) 0.167 10 60
30 INSEAD 0.057 48 843
31 City St George’s, University of London (Bayes) 0.041 2 49

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