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 PQ, 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! Jen Weld is a former  Assistant Director of Admissions at Cornell’s EMBA program. She has an additional 10 years of experience in higher ed and corporate marketing.  Want Jen to help you get Accepted? Click here to get in touch! Related Resources: †¢Ã‚  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