The 25 best MBA programs in the world for ambitious entrepreneurs

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• The best business schools in the world are ranked each year by education specialists QS Quacquarelli Symonds.
• QS recently released rankings for various MBA specializations, including the top programs for careers in entrepreneurship.
• QS based its ranking on surveys of employers, academics, and business school programs, and evaluated MBA programs on how many students went on to start a business, the programs' reputations for entrepreneurial graduates, and research output pertaining to entrepreneurship.
• Here are the top 25 global MBA programs for careers in entrepreneurship, according to the QS rankings.

Getting an MBA can be a huge boost if you want to advance your career by starting your own business. Here are some of the best MBA programs in the world where you can get that boost.

Education specialists QS Quacquarelli Symonds annually rank the best MBA programs in the world based on surveys of employers, academics, and business school programs.

They recently released rankings of MBA programs that are good for specific career specializations, focusing on programs with strong career outcomes in particular industries or activities.

For their ranking of the best MBA programs for careers in entrepreneurship, they combined their overall ranking of the best MBA programs in the world with further data on how many graduates went on to start their own businesses, the programs' reputations among employers for developing entrepreneurial skills, and faculty members' research output in fields related to innovation and entrepreneurship.

Here are the 25 best MBA programs for careers in entrepreneurship, according to QS, along with the share of recent graduates who started their own businesses and the programs' scores from 0 to 100 in the three entrepreneurship-specific categories listed above: