2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Entrepreneurship in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Entrepreneurial Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Entrepreneurship is the 158th most popular major in the country with 8,911 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southeast region, there were 3,297 entrepreneurship graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 entrepreneurship graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Entrepreneurial Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in entrepreneurship. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in entrepreneurship.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

More Ways to Rank Entrepreneurship Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Entrepreneurial Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

In addition to College Factual’s rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Entrepreneurial Studies Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree entrepreneurial studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Entrepreneurship in the Southeast Region

1

University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Louisville. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Entrepreneurial Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. UofL is a large public school situated in Louisville, Kentucky. It awarded 2 doctorate’s entrepreneurial studies degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Louisville Entrepreneurship Report

2

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

#1 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Entrepreneurial Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Duke University is located in Durham, North Carolina and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 11 doctorate’s entrepreneurial studies degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. With a freshman retention rate of 98%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Duke Entrepreneurship Report

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Uicbmarketing.