All Of The Data Behind P&Q’s 2026 Top MBA Programs For Entrepreneurship

PERCENT OF MBA FACULTY TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP (5%)

Given a 5% weight is the percentage of MBA faculty teaching at least one entrepreneurship-focused course during the most recent academic year.

ESMT Berlin has topped this category for two straight years, reporting 59% of faculty for 2026.

Percentage of MBA Faculty Teaching Entrepreneurship
Category Rank	School	Teaching Entrepreneurship
1	ESMT Berlin	59.00%
2	Esade Business School	55.00%
3	EDHEC Business School	48.00%
4	University of Virginia (Darden)	44.90%
5	DePaul University	42.00%
6	IE Business School	40.40%
7	UCLA (Anderson)	34.40%
8	Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)	34.00%
8	Johnson Cornell Tech MBA	33.00%
10	CEIBS	32.40%
11	Clemson University (Powers)	32.00%
11	University of Michigan (Ross)	32.00%
13	Woxsen University	26.50%
14	University of Oregon (Lundquist)	24.00%
14	University of Texas at Austin (McCombs)	24.00%
16	Brigham Young University (Marriott)	23.80%
17	London Business School	23.50%
18	Texas Christian University (Neeley)	21.40%
19	Babson College	21.00%
20	Arizona State University (W. P. Carey)	19.00%
20	University of California-San Diego (Rady)	19.00%
21	Rice University (Jones)	18.90%
23	City St George’s, University of London (Bayes)	18.50%
24	Boston University (Questrom)	16.90%
25	New York University (Stern)	13.50%
26	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	12.00%
27	Western University (Ivey)	9.40%
28	Georgetown University (McDonough)	8.50%
29	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	8.00%
29	University of Minnesota (Carlson)	8.00%
31	Rutgers Business School	5.10%
32	University of Arizona (Eller)	0.00%

AVERAGE PERCENT OF STUDENTS JOINING A STARTUP (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 three years ago was the average percentage of MBAs joining an early-stage startup (ten years or younger) within three months of graduation in the Classes of 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. This metric is weighted at 5% in our ranking.

Percentage of MBAs Joining Startups (2020-2024)
Category Rank	School	Join Average
1	IE Business School	30.00%
2	Esade Business School	20.60%
3	Johnson Cornell Tech MBA	19.40%
4	Babson College	19.20%
5	ESMT Berlin	17.80%
6	Woxsen University	15.60%
7	EDHEC Business School	14.90%
8	Boston University (Questrom)	14.30%
9	Brigham Young University (Marriott)	14.10%
10	City St George’s, University of London (Bayes)	13.80%
11	Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)	12.80%
12	University of Oregon (Lundquist)	12.60%
13	London Business School	10.40%
14	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	9.70%
15	UCLA (Anderson)	9.70%
16	Texas Christian University (Neeley)	9.50%
17	University of California-San Diego (Rady)	9.20%
18	Rice University (Jones)	8.70%
19	CEIBS	8.60%
20	Georgetown University (McDonough)	7.80%
21	University of Michigan (Ross)	7.60%
22	DePaul University	6.00%
23	University of Texas at Austin (McCombs)	5.60%
24	Clemson University (Powers)	4.60%
25	University of Minnesota (Carlson)	4.60%
26	University of Virginia (Darden)	4.60%
27	New York University (Stern)	4.40%
28	Western University (Ivey)	4.00%
29	University of Arizona (Eller)	3.90%
30	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	3.30%
31	Rutgers Business School	3.20%
32	Arizona State University (W. P. Carey)	1.60%

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