Bachelor’s degree · earnings 4 years after completing
Highest-Paying Colleges for Entrepreneurship (Bachelor's)
Graduates who complete a bachelor's degree in Entrepreneurship earn a median of $61,027 four years after finishing, and the middle half earn between $38,487 and $88,452. We rank the 33 U.S. colleges whose Entrepreneurship programs have at least 25 graduates in the Scorecard earnings sample, 1,745 graduates in all. That puts Entrepreneurship at #61 of 131 bachelor's degree fields we rank by national median earnings.
Boston College, in Massachusetts, leads at $132,903, 102% above the median ranked school ($65,830). The gap between schools is moderate: the middle half of ranked schools earn between $57,725 and $77,318, and the lowest earns $43,140. 21 of the 33 ranked schools (64%) match or beat the national median.
The top 20 mix sectors: 7 public, 12 private nonprofit and 1 for-profit. The top 20 are spread across 15 states, with Arizona the most common (2).
The top 20 schools cost more than most: a median net price of $28,770 a year, against $21,630 across all 33 ranked schools. Their graduates who borrowed carry a median of $21,500 in federal loans, about 30% of one year of earnings. Measured against a typical high-school graduate in the same state, the median top-20 school recovers its net cost in about 2.8 years.
Showing the top 33 of 33 ranked schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table. † = fewer than 40 graduates in the earnings sample.
| 1 | Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $132,903 | 31 † | $19,000 | $41,704 | 1.8 |
| 2 | Brown University Providence, RI Private nonprofit · 4-year | $125,955 | 83 | $18,000 | $25,184 | 1.2 |
| 3 | University of Arizona Tucson, AZ Public · 4-year | $99,722 | 38 † | $24,425 | $16,674 | 1.1 |
| 4 | Brigham Young University Provo, UT Private nonprofit · 4-year | $97,085 | 41 | — | $15,564 | 1.1 |
| 5 | Syracuse University Syracuse, NY Private nonprofit · 4-year | $87,851 | 49 | $26,350 | $38,793 | 3.0 |
| 6 | Baylor University Waco, TX Private nonprofit · 4-year | $86,363 | 72 | $19,012 | $41,104 | 3.2 |
| 7 | University of St Thomas (MN) Saint Paul, MN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $79,390 | 35 † | $21,500 | $29,155 | 2.8 |
| 8 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA Public · 4-year | $78,476 | 35 † | $25,000 | $32,875 | 3.1 |
| 9 | University of Dayton Dayton, OH Private nonprofit · 4-year | $77,318 | 45 | $25,492 | $29,533 | 2.9 |
| 10 | Drexel University Philadelphia, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $71,613 | 27 † | — | $38,509 | 4.4 |
| 11 | Saint Louis University Saint Louis, MO Private nonprofit · 4-year | $70,895 | 25 † | $25,000 | $24,398 | 2.7 |
| 12 | Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $69,534 | 37 † | $17,574 | $48,381 | 5.9 |
| 13 | University of North Texas Denton, TX Public · 4-year | $69,210 | 73 | $18,750 | $15,649 | 1.8 |
| 14 | Suffolk University Boston, MA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $68,752 | 49 | $27,000 | $29,618 | 4.3 |
| 15 | University of Vermont Burlington, VT Public · 4-year | $68,395 | 33 † | $20,500 | $19,343 | 2.5 |
| 16 | Miami University-Oxford Oxford, OH Public · 4-year | $67,193 | 78 | $21,998 | $28,384 | 3.6 |
| 17 | American Public University System Charles Town, WV For-profit · 4-year | $65,830 | 25 † | — | $9,597 | 1.2 |
| 18 | Oklahoma State University-Main Campus Stillwater, OK Public · 4-year | $64,678 | 71 | $20,500 | $17,447 | 2.3 |
| 19 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ Public · 4-year | $64,478 | 70 | $14,012 | $14,967 | 2.1 |
| 20 | The University of Tampa Tampa, FL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $64,034 | 44 | $25,500 | $36,211 | 4.9 |
| 21 | Kent State University at Kent Kent, OH Public · 4-year | $61,642 | 49 | $25,000 | $20,787 | 3.3 |
| 22 | Temple University Philadelphia, PA Public · 4-year | $60,437 | 43 | $20,949 | $28,198 | 4.7 |
| 23 | Kansas State University Manhattan, KS Public · 4-year | $59,809 | 29 † | $20,150 | $19,406 | 3.1 |
| 24 | Buena Vista University Storm Lake, IA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $58,540 | 32 † | $20,834 | $18,846 | 3.5 |
| 25 | South Dakota State University Brookings, SD Public · 4-year | $57,725 | 27 † | $24,312 | $19,841 | 3.8 |
| 26 | CUNY Bernard M Baruch College New York, NY Public · 4-year | $57,689 | 73 | — | $3,033 | 0.6 |
| 27 | Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI Public · 4-year | $56,553 | 101 | $27,000 | $17,597 | 3.2 |
| 28 | California State University-San Bernardino San Bernardino, CA Public · 4-year | $56,430 | 48 | $19,998 | $4,564 | 0.9 |
| 29 | University of North Dakota Grand Forks, ND Public · 4-year | $53,454 | 28 † | $24,250 | $18,551 | 4.5 |
| 30 | Grand Canyon University Phoenix, AZ Private nonprofit · 4-year | $52,783 | 89 | $27,000 | $22,472 | 5.5 |
| 31 | Johnson & Wales University-Providence Providence, RI Private nonprofit · 4-year | $47,042 | 149 | $25,125 | $31,027 | 18.8 |
| 32 | Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN Public · 4-year | $45,464 | 29 † | — | $13,359 | 5.0 |
| 33 | The University of Arizona Global Campus Chandler, AZ Public · 4-year | $43,140 | 87 | $34,478 | — | — |
How this ranking is built
A school appears here only if it meets every condition below.
- Which programs count
- Main campuses only, one entry per institution. Scorecard reports program outcomes for the whole six-digit federal ID (OPEID6), so branch campuses share their parent’s numbers and are not listed twice.
- Only bachelor's degree programs in Entrepreneurship (CIP 5207, the four-digit code Scorecard uses to group related programs).
- At least 25 graduates in the earnings sample. Smaller samples are left out because their medians swing too much and the counts carry a little privacy noise.
- A major gets a page only when at least 20 schools qualify. This one has 33.
- Ranked by median earnings 4 years after completing, highest first. Ties go to the larger sample, then to the school name.
- Schools missing earnings or a sample size are left out rather than estimated.
- What the numbers mean
- Earnings: median annual earnings of graduates four years after completing. The cohort completed in academic years 2017-18 and 2018-19 and was measured in calendar years 2022 and 2023, in 2024 dollars.
- Who is counted: graduates who received federal student aid (Title IV grants or loans), and only those who were working and not enrolled in more school that year. Graduates without federal aid, those who went on to further study and those with no earnings are not in the median.
- Scorecard adds privacy noise to counts and medians and hides values it cannot protect, so a gap of a few percent between two schools is not meaningful.
- Graduates: the number of graduates in that earnings sample. A † marks fewer than 40, where the figure is less precise.
- Debt: median federal loan debt (Stafford and Grad PLUS loans disbursed at that school) of graduates who borrowed, from the 2018-19 and 2019-20 completers. Parent PLUS and private loans are not included.
- Net price: average yearly cost after grants and scholarships for the whole institution, not this major, academic year 2023-24.
- Payback: 4 years of net price divided by how much these earnings exceed a high-school graduate’s in the school’s state. Shown only when that gap is at least $2,000, the same formula as the rest of the site.
- Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard field-of-study data, June 2026 release.
Top states for Entrepreneurship earnings
Median of the school medians for states with at least 3 ranked schools. The best school in each state is shown.
| State | Median earnings | Ranked schools | Top school |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | $71,613 | 3 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus |
| Ohio | $67,193 | 3 | University of Dayton |
| Arizona | $58,631 | 4 | University of Arizona |
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