- The best business schools in the world are ranked each year by education specialists QS Quacquarelli Symonds.
- QS recently released rankings for various MBA specializations, including the top programs for careers in entrepreneurship.
- QS based its ranking on surveys of employers, academics, and business school programs, and evaluated MBA programs on how many students went on to start a business, the programs’ reputations for entrepreneurial graduates, and research output pertaining to entrepreneurship.
- Here are the top 25 global MBA programs for careers in entrepreneurship, according to the QS rankings.
Getting an MBA can be a huge boost if you want to advance your career by starting your own business. Here are some of the best MBA programs in the world where you can get that boost.
For their ranking of the best MBA programs for careers in entrepreneurship, they combined their overall ranking of the best MBA programs in the world with further data on how many graduates went on to start their own businesses, the programs’ reputations among employers for developing entrepreneurial skills, and faculty members’ research output in fields related to innovation and entrepreneurship.
Here are the 25 best MBA programs for careers in entrepreneurship, according to QS, along with the share of recent graduates who started their own businesses and the programs’ scores from 0 to 100 in the three entrepreneurship-specific categories listed above:
25. Copenhagen Business School
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Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Share of graduates starting their own business: 5%
Career placement score: Not available
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 95
24. IMD
Facebook/IMD Business School
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Share of graduates starting their own business: 4%
Career placement score: Not available
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 86
23. Northwestern (Kellogg)
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Location: Evanston, IL
Share of graduates starting their own business: 2%
Career placement score: Not available
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 94
22. Yale
Facebook/Yale School of Management
Location: New Haven, CT
Share of graduates starting their own business: 6%
Career placement score: Not available
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 80
21. SDA Bocconi
Location: Milan, Italy
Share of graduates starting their own business: 4%
Career placement score: Not available
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 92
20. NYU (Stern)
Location: New York, NY
Share of graduates starting their own business: 3%
Career placement score: Not Available
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 88
19. ESSEC
Location: Paris, France/Singapore
Share of graduates starting their own business: 30%
Career placement score: 100
Employer reputation score: 60
Research strength score: 87
18. University of Hong Kong
Reuters/Bobby Yip
Location: Hong Kong
Share of graduates starting their own business: 12%
Career placement score: 80
Employer reputation score: 80
Research strength score: 91
17. University of California at Los Angeles (Anderson)
Facebook/UCLA Anderson School of Management
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Share of graduates starting their own business: 5%
Career placement score: Not available
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 91
15 (tie). Columbia University
Location: New York, NY
Share of graduates starting their own business: 4%
Career placement score: Not available
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 92
15 (tie). HEC Paris
Facebook/HEC Paris
Location: Jouy-en-Josas, France
Share of graduates starting their own business: 5%
Career placement score: Not available
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 91
14. University of Chicago (Booth)
Location: Chicago, IL
Share of graduates starting their own business: 3%
Career placement score: Not available
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 92
13. INSEAD
Location: Fontainebleau, France/Singapore
Share of graduates starting their own business: 3%
Career placement score: Not available
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 92
12. London Business School
Facebook/London Business School
Location: London, UK
Share of graduates starting their own business: 4%
Career placement score: Not available
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 91
11. MIT (Sloan)
Location: Cambridge, MA
Share of graduates starting their own business: 5%
Career placement score: Not available
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 95
10. University of Cambridge (Judge)
Location: Cambridge, UK
Share of graduates starting their own business: 8%
Career placement score: 40
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 92
9. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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Location: Philadelphia, PA
Share of graduates starting their own business: 5%
Career placement score: Not available
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 98
8. University of California at Berkeley (Haas)
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Location: Berkeley, CA
Share of graduates starting their own business: 8%
Career placement score: 40
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 92
6 (tie). Harvard
Reuters
Location: Boston, MA
Share of graduates starting their own business: 7%
Career placement score: 40
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 97
6 (tie). IESE Business School
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Share of graduates starting their own business: 10%
Career placement score: 60
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 91
5. ESADE
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Share of graduates starting their own business: 10%
Career placement score: 60
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 91
4. Oxford University (Saïd)
Location: Oxford, UK
Share of graduates starting their own business: 11%
Career placement score: 60
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 93
2 (tie). IE Business School
Location: Madrid, Spain
Share of graduates starting their own business: 25%
Career placement score: 100
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 67
2 (tie). Imperial College Business School
Location: London, UK
Share of graduates starting their own business: 13%
Career placement score: 80
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 95
1. Stanford University
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Location: Stanford, CA
Share of graduates starting their own business: 16%
Career placement score: 100
Employer reputation score: 100
Research strength score: 92