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Top MBA Programs for Entrepreneurs

Top MBA Programs for Entrepreneurs
Poets & Quants has just released their inaugural rankings for the top MBA programs for entrepreneurs, and Washington University’s Olin Business School tops the list. 20.7% of its graduates from 2016-2018 launched companies within three months of graduation, and has a whopping $1 million in annual funding available for student entrepreneurs. By comparison, the second ranked school, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, had 15.67% of its graduates start a business within three months of graduation. While a global ranking, all but three of the 27 schools ranked are in the United States. We’ve selected a couple interesting pieces of data from the rankings and put them in the below chart. To see all of the information and further analysis from P&Q, click here.

RankSchoolFinal ScoreLaunched Business in 3 Months% of Faculty who Teach EntrepreneurshipAward Money Available*
1Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)10020.67%27.00%$987,500
2Stanford Graduate School of Business72.5415.67%16.39%$100,000
3Babson College71.316.63%20.00%$132,500
4University of Michigan (Ross)70.2117.33%17.20%$523,500
5ESADE60.144.61%6.00%$0
6MIT (Sloan)52.996.80%15.66%$270,000
7CEIBS51.084.93%4.41%$9,000
8University of Minnesota (Carlson)50.657.67%6.40%$500,000
9University of California-Los Angeles (Anderson)47.173.13%7.74%$41,000
10University of California-Berkeley (Haas)46.866.05%13.56%$100,000
11Rice University (Jones)46.526.00%17.00%$2,942,150
12Harvard Business School45.997.33%12.70%$700,000
13University of Chicago (Booth)45.763.13%11.76%$700,000
14Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)45.686.67%1.00%$60,000
15INSEAD43.624.33%10.75%$145,029
16Indiana University (Kelley)43.421.53%19.23%$20,000
17Northwestern University (Kellogg)42.61.90%4.52%$100,000
18Yale School of Management38.174.13%12.08%$100,000
19University of Texas-Austin (McCombs)34.022.73%11.00%$100,000
20Columbia Business School33.64.27%21.93%$250,000
21University of Virginia (Darden)28.474.53%15.38%$50,000
22UNC-Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)28.181.67%20.00%$49,500
23University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)28.014.97%11.68%$135,000
24Georgetown University (McDonnough)26.633.00%7.81%$189,500
25New York University (Stern)24.21.65%14.00%$275,000
26University of Southern California (Marshall)24.070.50%6.05%$300,000
27Emory University (Goizueta)20.311.07%0.00%$8,500

* Total award money available to full-time MBAs through new venture and startup competitions during the 2018-2019 academic year.

Are you a budding entrepreneur who needs to round out their skill set with an entrepreneurial-focused MBA? Let us at Accepted help you put together your strongest application to show these top programs what you’ve got. Contact us today for a free consultation on how we can work together to get you accepted to the perfect program for you!

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admissions expertJen Weld is a former Accepted admissions consultant and Assistant Director of Admissions at Cornell’s EMBA program. She has an additional 10 years of experience in higher ed and corporate marketing. Want an admissions expert help you get accepted? Click here to get in touch!

 

Related Resources:

• MBA Applicants: Make Your Work Experience Work for You, a free guide
• B-School Selectivity Index: Discover the Schools Where You Are Competitive
• A Bain Consultant-Turned Wharton MBA Starts Her Own Business, a podcast episode

Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions / Babson, CEIBS, Chicago Booth, CMU Tepper, Columbia Business School, Emory Goizueta, entrepreneurship, ESADE, Georgetown McDonough, Harvard Business School, Indiana Kelley, INSEAD, MBA Rankings, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, researching mba programs, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UCLA Anderson, UNC Kenan Flagler, USC Marshall, UT McCombs, UVA Darden, Washington Olin, Wharton, Yale SOM

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