American entrepreneurs are a mixed bag when it comes to education. Census data from 2019 show that while most entrepreneurs have a bachelor’s degree — and a smaller number had a master’s, doctorate or other professional degree — there are millions of others who created their business after earning an associate’s degree, technical certificate or GED, or not completing high school.
Since 1985, the number of entrepreneurship courses offered at college campuses across the nation has risen 20-fold. Philadelphia’s major universities do have official entrepreneurship curricula in the form of degrees, minors or certificate programs. Temple University offers a master’s in innovation management and entrepreneurship in its Fox School of Business, University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School offers an entrepreneurship and innovation major within its MBA program, and Drexel University offers an entrepreneurship and innovation undergraduate degree within a college dedicated to entrepreneurship — the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship.
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