Entrepreneurial Studies is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #110 most popular master's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for entrepreneurial studies students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 64 master's degrees in entrepreneurial studies during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to entrepreneurial studies students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other entrepreneurial studies students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt entrepreneurial studies students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized entrepreneurial studies related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for entrepreneurial studies students working on their master's degree.
The entrepreneurship school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Entrepreneurial Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Entrepreneurial Studies in the Southwest Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in entrepreneurial studies.
Top Southwest Region Schools for a Master's in Entrepreneurship
East Texas Baptist University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in entrepreneurial studies. East Texas Baptist University is a small private not-for-profit university located in the distant town of Marshall.
Students who graduate with their master's from the entrepreneurship program state that they receive average early career income of $46,062.
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).