MBAs Doing Startups Explode Within 3 Years Of Graduation
When they graduate from business school, the vast majority of MBAs take high paying jobs at mainstream employers. But many of them quickly drop out of those jobs to start their own firms within three years
Started Company Within 3 Years
Started Company By Graduation
Babson College (Olin)
46%
17%
Ipade Business School *
41%
6%
Birmingham Business School *
36%
4%
Stanford GSB
34%
14%
IE Business School *
30%
5%
Harvard Business School
28%
6%
Oxford (Said)
27%
10%
Southern California (Marshall) *
27%
6%
MIT (Sloan)
26%
8%
IESE Business School
26%
2%
Incase Business School *
26%
6%
London Business School
25%
5%
HKUST Business School *
22%
6%
UC-Berkeley (Haas) *
20%
8%
Penn (Wharton)
20%
6%
INSEAD
20%
5%
Columbia Business School
19%
6%
UCLA (Anderson) *
19%
6%
Virginia (Darden) *
18%
5%
Dartmouth (Tuck) *
18%
5%
HEC Paris *
18%
4%
Duke (Fuqua)
17%
1%
NYU (Stern) *
17%
5%
Georgetown (McDonough) *
15%
4%
Chicago (Booth)
14%
3%
An asterisk indicates an estimate of graduates who started companies at graduation because the data was not included in the school's employment report.
