If you plan on majoring in entrepreneurship, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #158 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.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Entrepreneurship Schools in California ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 258 degrees in entrepreneurship annually.
Your choice of entrepreneurship school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for entrepreneurship schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Entrepreneurship Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the entrepreneurial studies degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of California - Irvine is a great option for students interested in a degree in entrepreneurship. Located in the city of Irvine, UC Irvine is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #73 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UC Irvine is a great university overall.
There were approximately 43 entrepreneurship students who graduated with this degree at UC Irvine in the most recent data year.
University of San Francisco is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in entrepreneurship. Located in the large city of San Francisco, USFCA is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #152 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means USFCA is a great university overall.
There were approximately 60 entrepreneurship students who graduated with this degree at USFCA in the most recent year we have data available.
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Loyola Marymount University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in entrepreneurship. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. This university ranks 29th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 52 entrepreneurship students who graduated with this degree at Loyola Marymount in the most recent year we have data available.
The University of Arizona Global Campus is a wonderful option for students pursuing a degree in entrepreneurship. Located in the large city of San Diego, UAGC is a private for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 56th out of 161 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 58 entrepreneurship students who graduated with this degree at UAGC in the most recent year we have data available.
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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Your choice of entrepreneurship school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for entrepreneurship schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
