2025 Best Entrepreneurship Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois

Ranked #110 in popularity, entrepreneurship is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Entrepreneurship Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 89 bachelor's degrees in entrepreneurship to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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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 entrepreneurship students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of entrepreneurship students who choose to seek a bachelor'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.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized entrepreneurship related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for entrepreneurship students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Entrepreneurship Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Entrepreneurship Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Entrepreneurship in Illinois

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in entrepreneurship.

Top Illinois Schools for a Bachelor's in Entrepreneurial Studies

1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

18 Annual Graduates

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in entrepreneurship. UIUC is a fairly large public university located in the city of Champaign.More information about a bachelor’s in entrepreneurship from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2

Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, IL

13 Annual Graduates

Loyola University Chicago is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in entrepreneurship. Loyola Chicago is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Chicago.More information about a bachelor’s in entrepreneurship from Loyola University Chicago

Best Entrepreneurship Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Entrepreneurship Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	629	152
Ohio	612	198
Indiana	535	40
Wisconsin	435	35

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Rankings in Majors Related to Entrepreneurial Studies

One of 4 majors within the Entrepreneurial Studies area of study, Entrepreneurship has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Majors Related to Entrepreneurial Studies

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Other Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations	4
Small Business Administration/Management	1

Notes and References

• 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).
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