P&Q’s Must Reads: Poets&Quants’ 2026 World’s Best MBA Programs For Entrepreneurship

Hello everyone  — Welcome back to Poets&Quants’ Must Reads, a quick, digestible recap of the top business school news, sponsored by CentreCourt, P&Q’s virtual admission events.

I’m your host, Kristy Bleizeffer, and I’ll be highlighting the most important P&Q stories you might have missed. So, let’s get to it. 

No. 1: Poets&Quants’ 2026 World’s Best MBA Programs For Entrepreneurship  

This week, Poets&Quants is proud to present our annual ranking of the World’s Best MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship.

Our 2026 list was topped by a familiar name: Washington University in St. Louis Olin School of business, a school that has earned the No. 1 spot five other years.

Another program, Johnson Cornell Tech MBA, jumped 10 spots to No. 4, the largest rise on the ranking.

Our methodology is designed to measure how resources are allocated to individual MBA students. The 32 schools on this ranking are entrepreneurial gems, even as their MBA programs may not typically get as much ink as the prestigious powerhouses.

You can find the full list, as well as how each school fared in every metric, from our homepage.

No. 2: Princeton Review Ranking: Best MBA & Undergrad Entrepreneurship Programs 

 The Princeton Review also released its entrepreneurship ranking this month, and we have the full P&Q analysis.

Unlike our proprietary ranking which looks at MBA programs specifically, this list looks at entrepreneurship on a university level.

Developed in partnership with Entrepreneur, The Princeton Review produces separate rankings at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and Texas schools topped both lists.

Find out which ones now, from our trending tab.

No. 3: 2025 MBA Best In Class Award For Teaching Quality: Cornell University (Johnson)

Students at Johnson regularly cite smaller class sizes, engaged professors, and high-touch advising as differentiators for their MBA program. The close-knit Ithaca setting contributes to a “you-matter” teaching environment, where faculty know names and students feel supported. That kind of interpersonal teaching rapport is often rare at bigger schools.

For these and other reasons, Poets&Quants picked Cornell Johnson for our 2025 MBA Best In Class Award For Teaching Quality. It is among several honors we’ve bestowed on pioneering business schools from around the world this year. 

You can read more about Cornell’s teaching, and about all of our award winners, in this story, which you’ll find on our homepage.

No. 4: Our Weekly Round Up of  News You Can Use

No matter where you are in your MBA journey, we bring several helpful stories for you this week.

First up: Eight Weeks To Round 2: Your MBA Application Countdown. This week-by-week plan helps you stay organized, refine your story & submit confident, polished applications without last-minute stress. Find it on our homepage.

Next: How To Manage Stress During MBA Application Season. From test prep to the waitlist, learn expert-backed ways to stay calm, centered, and resilient through every stage of your MBA journey. Find the article in our admission hub.

Finally: 5 Common Mistakes Military Veterans Make In MBA Applications. This article, also in our admission hub, provides valuable tips prospective military MBAs should not miss.

And, that’s it for this week’s Must Reads recap. 

I also want to alert school seekers to our events tab from our main menu. There, you’ll find all the upcoming admissions events for a range of degrees and programs including full-time and online MBAs, specialized masters, entrepreneurship and more. Registration is free.

Again, I’m Kristy Bleizeffer, and you can join me next week, right here, for a recap of what’s important in the world of business education. Thanks for listening.

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