Top Entrepreneurship MBA Programs

Babson College

• Babson College in Babson Park, Massachusetts, offers the top-ranked entrepreneurship MBA in the country, according to "Entrepreneur" magazine and "The Princeton Review." The program, called Entrepreneurship Intensity Track, was the first entrepreneurship program in the country. Babson College designed it to offer the essential MBA core classes while incorporating entrepreneurship-oriented courses into the curriculum. Babson College offers more entrepreneurship courses than any other college or university in the country, according to the website. Entrepreneurship MBA students study the topic from three perspectives--the foundation, which is a broad, fundamental approach; the specialty, which explores different topics within entrepreneurship; and the support, which focuses on one chosen area and develops a deep knowledge of that topic.

  Babson College
  231 Forest Street
  Babson Park, MA 02457
  781-235-1200
  babson.edu/ESHIP

University of Southern California

• In 2009, "Entrepreneur" magazine and "The Princeton Review" ranked The Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California second in the country for entrepreneurial graduate programs. The Marshall School of Business offers an MBA with an entrepreneurship concentration. Two entities administer the degree plan--the MBA faculty in the Marshall School of Business and the faculty in the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. The Center is a research facility that also houses all entrepreneurship courses. Required foundational courses for Entrepreneurship MBA students include Introduction to New Ventures, The Business Plan and Feasibility Analysis. The program takes about two years to complete.

  University of Southern California
  Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
  Bridge Hall One
  Los Angeles, CA 90089
  213-740-0641
  marshall.usc.edu/greif

Drexel University

• Ranked the third-best entrepreneurship masters program in the country by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review, the Drexel University Baiada Center for Entrepreneurship provides a research-oriented facility for entrepreneurship MBA students to study and learn from a hands-on approach. The program is a two-year MBA program with a concentration in entrepreneurship and innovation management, taught by the Center's renowned entrepreneurship faculty, according to the website. Colloquiums, seminars, guest lectures and workshops are available to all entrepreneurship students throughout the year, as well as a mentoring program, student clubs and opportunities to be entrepreneurs while finishing the degree.

  Drexel University
  Baiada Center
  3225 Arch Street
  Ground Floor
  Philadelphia, PA 19104
  215-895-0300
  lebow.drexel.edu