PERCENTAGE OF MBAS TAKING AN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ELECTIVE (2.5%)
Another new data point added three years ago asked schools to report the percentage of MBAs that took an elective course in entrepreneurship during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Three schools reported that 100% of their 2025 MBAs took at least one entrepreneurial elective last year: EDHEC in France, ESMT Berlin in Germany, and IE Business School in Spain.
Percentage of MBAs Taking an Entrepreneurship Elective |
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Category Rank |
School |
MBAs Taking Elective |
| 1 | EDHEC Business School | 100.00% |
| 2 | ESMT Berlin | 100.00% |
| 3 | IE Business School | 100.00% |
| 4 | University of Virginia (Darden) | 98.00% |
| 5 | Esade Business School | 94.00% |
| 6 | Johnson Cornell Tech MBA | 94.00% |
| 6 | University of Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 90.50% |
| 8 | City St George’s, University of London (Bayes) | 89.70% |
| 9 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | 86.00% |
| 10 | Western University (Ivey) | 84.00% |
| 10 | Brigham Young University (Marriott) | 82.10% |
| 12 | UCLA (Anderson) | 79.90% |
| 13 | CEIBS | 79.00% |
| 14 | University of California-San Diego (Rady) | 76.40% |
| 15 | Texas Christian University (Neeley) | 76.39% |
| 16 | University of Michigan (Ross) | 74.00% |
| 17 | Babson College | 72.00% |
| 18 | Woxsen University | 71.40% |
| 19 | Rice University (Jones) | 67.85% |
| 20 | London Business School | 66.45% |
| 21 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 60.00% |
| 21 | University of Oregon (Lundquist) | 52.00% |
| 23 | Boston University (Questrom) | 47.60% |
| 24 | Clemson University (Powers) | 47.00% |
| 25 | New York University (Stern) | 46.80% |
| 26 | Georgetown University (McDonough) | 45.00% |
| 27 | Arizona State University (W. P. Carey) | 43.00% |
| 28 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | 34.88% |
| 29 | University of Minnesota (Carlson) | 30.00% |
| 30 | DePaul University | 23.00% |
| 31 | University of Arizona (Eller) | 14.81% |
| 32 | Rutgers Business School | 14.06% |
RATIO OF MENTORSHIP HOURS (2.5%)
Mentorship is an important resource for any budding entrepreneur or entrepreneurial thinker.
Our ranking measures two aspects of mentorship: The ratio of school-facilitated entrepreneurship-focused mentorship hours per MBA and the ratio of mentors available to MBA students during the last academic year.
Hours spent mentoring MBAs is given a 2.5% weight.
Ratio of MBAs to Entrepreneurship Mentor Hours |
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Category Rank |
School |
Hours ratio |
| 1 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | 129.10 |
| 2 | Arizona State University (W. P. Carey) | 70.11 |
| 3 | Rice University (Jones) | 50.25 |
| 4 | Babson College | 26.61 |
| 5 | Woxsen University | 19.91 |
| 6 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | 18.84 |
| 7 | EDHEC Business School | 17.24 |
| 8 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 15.88 |
| 9 | Johnson Cornell Tech MBA | 14.24 |
| 10 | Brigham Young University (Marriott) | 11.80 |
| 11 | London Business School | 8.70 |
| 12 | University of Oregon (Lundquist) | 8.60 |
| 13 | Texas Christian University (Neeley) | 8.57 |
| 14 | UCLA (Anderson) | 8.02 |
| 15 | Rutgers Business School | 7.21 |
| 16 | University of Virginia (Darden) | 5.96 |
| 17 | University of Minnesota (Carlson) | 4.65 |
| 18 | Western University (Ivey) | 3.51 |
| 19 | New York University (Stern) | 3.47 |
| 20 | Esade Business School | 3.00 |
| 21 | University of California-San Diego (Rady) | 2.08 |
| 22 | University of Arizona (Eller) | 1.84 |
| 23 | DePaul University | 1.74 |
| 24 | Clemson University (Powers) | 1.54 |
| 25 | Georgetown University (McDonough) | 1.52 |
| 26 | ESMT Berlin | 1.49 |
| 27 | IE Business School | 1.15 |
| 28 | University of Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 1.05 |
| 29 | University of Michigan (Ross) | 0.92 |
| 30 | Boston University (Questrom) | 0.90 |
| 30 | CEIBS | 0.44 |
| 32 | City St George’s, University of London (Bayes) | 0.12 |
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