If you plan on getting your master's degree in entrepreneurial studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #110 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 8 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for entrepreneurial studies students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 233 master's degrees in entrepreneurial studies during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Entrepreneurial Studies School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of entrepreneurial studies for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality entrepreneurship program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on entrepreneurial studies students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of entrepreneurial studies students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for entrepreneurial studies to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized entrepreneurial studies related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for entrepreneurial studies students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Entrepreneurial Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Located in the large city of Tampa, UT is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Master's recipients from the entrepreneurial studies degree program at The University of Tampa earn $11,310 above the typical college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
by our College Data Analytics Team
Your choice of entrepreneurial studies for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality entrepreneurship program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
