Doctoral Programs in Entrepreneurship
Revised: 2/15/23
Background
This is part of eWeb's efforts to document entrepreneurship education's infrastructure. The list below gives the names of universities around the world teaching entrepreneurship at the doctoral level. The section entitled "Schools With Organized Programs" tries to cover those schools which have an announced degree, major, concentration, minor, or area of focus in entrepreneurship or a closely related field (e.g. small business, family business, SME studies, etc.).
The section entitled "Schools With Doctoral Faculty and/or Students in Entrepreneurship" tries to cover schools where (a) one or more faculty whose primary area of research is entrepreneurship AND who have doctoral teaching or training responsibility, or (b) one or more doctoral-level students are currently doing research in entrepreneurship or the school has an established track record of doctoral student graduates with a research in entrepreneurship.
The lists below are intended to focus on accredited programs, and particularly schools operating in English (or who at least schools who have English-lanuage websites). Note that there are easily twice that number of unaccredited schools offering doctorates. Its helpful to keep in mind that doctoral opportunities in entrepreneurship occur in three forms:
Of the schools listed there are now 88 (up from 12 in 2002, 36 in 2015, and 76 in 2016, 85 in 2019) that have formal, organized programs in entrepreneurship. This is the first list below.
In the second approach, offer a doctorate in a conventional area, but provide support through research, classes, faculty, or infrastructure for students to specialize their research and teaching in entrepreneurship. This is the second list below.
The third approach exists in almost any school with a Ph.D. offered in business. In these schools a student can arrange to specialize in entrepreneurship. Most often this is done by means of an individualized major - a one-time program contracted by the student with the school. Such schools are not listed.
Although we remain keenly interested in doctoral education, SLU is not on this list. While the Chaifetz School of Business offers a Ph.D., it is in the area of International Business and Marketing, and does not offer a way to get a specialization in Entrepreneurship.
Schools With Organized Programs (and nature of degree offered with hotlinks where possible)
Aalto University [Ph.D. in Business, Economics and Finance, with a specialization in Entrepreneurship]
Baylor [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship]
Bentley [Ph.D. in Business wth a concentration in Management, specialized in Entrepreneurship]
BI Norwegian Business School [Ph.D. in Innovation and Entrepreneurship]
Carnegie-Mellon - Portugal [Ph.D. in Technological Change & Entrepreneurship]
Central European University [Ph.D. in Business Administration, entrepreneurship track]
Clemson (Ph.D. in Business, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship and Organizational Behavior track)
Copenhagen Business School [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship and Innovation]
CUNY [Ph.D. in Business, with a concentration in Organizational Behavior specialized in Entrepreneurship]
EIT Digital Doctoral School [Ph.D. in Digital Technolgy]
ESCP - Europe/Paris [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship ]
EM Lyon [Ph.D. in Business with an entrepreneurship concentration possible]
EPFL [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization ]
Erasmus University - ERIM [Open Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship]
Florida Atlantic University [Ph.D. in Management with an Entrepreneurship Emphasis]
Georgia Tech [PhD in Strategy & Innovation]
Grenoble Ecole de Management [Ph.D. in Business Administration, specialized in strategy and entrepreneurship]
Hanken School of Economics [Ph.D. with a major in Entrepreneurship]
Harvard [DBA in Management with a focus in Entrepreneurship]
HHL- Leipzig Graduate School of Management [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship]
IE - Spain [Ph.D. with major/minor in Strategy & Entrepreneurship, DBA with a concentration in Strategy & Entrepreneurship ]
Imperial College [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship]
INSEAD [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship]
Instituto de Empresa [Ph.D or DBA in Strategy, International Management & Entrepreneurship]
Indiana University [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship]
Instituto Superior Tecnico [Ph.D. in Technological Change and Entrepreneurship]
Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) [Ph.D. in Management, specialized in Strategy and Entrepreneurship]
Iowa State [Ph.D. Concentration in Entrepreneurship]
Jonkoping International Business School [Ph.D. in Business Administration with a specialization in entrepreneurship]
Kennesaw State [Executive Doctorate with a Specialization in Entrepreneurship]
Lancaster University [Ph.D. in Management with a Specialization in Entrepreneurship]
Leuphana Universitat [Ph.D. in Business Administration specialized in Entrepreneurship]
London Business School [Ph.D in Strategy and Entrepreneurship]
Loughborough University [Ph.D. in Enterprise Development]
Lund University [Ph.D. in Business Administration specialized in Entrepreneurship]
MIT [Ph.D. in Technological Innovation & Entrepreneurship]
National University of Singapore [PhD-MBA in sciences and entrepreneurship]
Nord University [Ph.D. in Business with a specialization in Entrepreneurship and Innovation]
North Carolina [Ph.D. in Strategy & Entrepreneurship]
Ohio State [Ph.D in Strategy and Entrepreneurship]
Oklahoma State [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship]
Old Dominion University [Ph.D. in Strategy with a supporting area in Entrepreneurship]
Oregon State [Ph.D. in Innovation and Commercialization]
Oxford University [DPhil in Management Studies concentrating in the management research pathway, researching in entrepreneurship]
Oxford Brookes University [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship/Small Business or Ethnic/Immigrant Entrepreneurship]
Queen's University [Ph.D. in Management, Specialization in Strategy, focus on entrepreneurship]
Regents University [PhD in Organizational Leadership - Entrepreneurial Leadership Major]
Rutgers University [Ph.D. in Organization Management with a specialization in entrepreneurship]
Southern Denmark University [Ph.D. in Business Administration specialized in Entrepreneurship]
St. Mary's - Canada [Ph.D. in Business Administration (Management) specialized in Entrepreneurship]
Stanford University [Ph.D. in (Macro) Organizational Behavior with a focus on entrepreneurship ]
Stockholm School of Economics [Ph.D. in Business Administration with a focus on entrepreneurship]
Syracuse University [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship]
Tallin University of Technology [Ph.D. in Economics specialized in Entrepreneurship]
Temple University [EDBA with a specialization in entrepreneurship]
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona [PhD in Entrepreneurship and Management]
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya • BarcelonaTech (UPC) [Ph.D. Erasmus Mundus in Simulation in Engineering and Entrepreneurship Development (Seed)]
University College London [Ph.D. in Strategy and Entrepreneurship]
University of Alberta [Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Organization specialized in Entrepreneurship or Family Business]
University of Arkansas [Ph.D. in Strategy and Entrepreneurship]
University of Calgary [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship]
University of Central Florida [Ph.D. in Management with a concentration in Entrepreneurship]
University of Colorado [Ph.D. in Management with a specialization in Strategic, Organizational and Entrepreneurial Studies]
University of Edinburgh [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship & Innovation]
University of Essex [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship]
University of Florida [Ph.D. in Management with a specialization in Entrepreneurship, DBA with a concentration in Entrepreneurship]
University of the Incarnate Word [Ph.D. in International Education & Entrepreneurship]
University of London - Goldsmiths [Ph.D. in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship]
University of Louisville [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship]
University of Massachusetts - Lowell [Ph.D. in Business Administration, Entrepreneurship Concentration]
University of Maryland [Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship]
University of Minnesota [Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship]
University of Miskolc [Ph.D. in Enterprise Theory & Practice]
University of Missouri - Kansas City [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship and Innovation]
University of Nottingham [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship and Innovation]
University of Oklahoma [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship]
University of Pennsylvania - Wharton [Ph.D. in Management with a specialization in entrepreneurial management]
University of Porto [Doctoral Program in Leaders for Technological Industries] with MIT, University of Lisbon and University of Minho.
University of Strathclyde [Ph.D in Entrepreneurship]
University of Tennessee [Ph.D. in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations ]
University of Texas [Ph.D. in Management with a Strategic Management Concentration]
University of Texas at Dallas [Ph.D. in International Management Studies with a major in Entrepreneurship]
University of Utah [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship and Strategy]
University of Virginia - Darden [Ph.D. in Management with a specialization in entrepreneurship]
University of Washington [Ph.D. in Technology Entrepreneurship]
University of Western Ontario [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship]
Worcester Polytech [Ph.D in Business with a Concentration in Entrepreneurship]
Zhejiang University [Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship Studies]
Schools With Doctoral Faculty and/or Students in Entrepreneurship
Alabama
Boston U.
Iowa
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Maryland
Mississippi State
Nebraska
NYU
North Carolina
Penn State
Purdue
Southampton Solent University
South Carolina
SUNY- Buffalo
Tallinn - Estonia
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
Tilburg-Eindhoven (joint program)
UCLA
University of Lodz
University of Roehampton
University of Sannio
University of Seville
USC [California]
Wisconsin - Madison
The List: History and Contact Information
The first list of Ph.D. Programs in Entrepreneurship was distributed on paper by Harold Welsch of DePaul University. An early version of the list was posted to EGOPHER, and has since 1991 been maintained by Jerry Katz at Saint Louis University.
This revision of the list benefitted from a major contribution from Sonali Patel, a JD/MBA student at Saint Louis University, and Colin Nelson of AACSB, as well as the PhDPortal list in entrepreneurship. Additional contributions came from Kevin Taylor, Helena Yli-Renko, David Townsend, Susan Cohen, David Williams, Daan Hsu, Daniel Chun, Efe Imiren and Joel Alan Adams.
Individuals with questions, comments or additions please contact:
Professor Jerry Katz (jerome.katz@slu.edu)
Department of Management, Saint Louis University
St. Louis, MO 63108
314-977-3864 voice
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