Overview
Eight per cent of our most recent graduating class started their own business straight out of the MBA. Cambridge Judge and the Cambridge MBA have always offered a diverse student body, bringing together a wide range of industries and sector backgrounds to foster innovation and entrepreneurial thinking in business.
As well as the access our MBAs have to the Cambridge Judge Business School Entrepreneurship Centre and other innovative research centres across the Business School, our students are offered access to a wide network of successful entrepreneurs operating in the Cambridge Cluster and Silcon Fen.
An MBA from Cambridge Judge Business School offers aspiring entrepreneurs a great platform for idea generation, development and venture launch. The curriculum offers tailored entrepreneurship courses, covering business planning, innovation management and funding.

of our recent graduates developed startups upon graduating
Statistics shown are from the most recent Cambridge MBA employment report.
The Cambridge MBA can progress your entrepreneurship career
Find out what you need to know, information on career outcomes, hear from alumni and sign up to an event to talk to us.
Can I start a new business during my MBA year?
Can I launch a business while studying for my MBA? How do I develop my ideas before taking the leap? What resources are available to budding entrepreneurs in Cambridge itself?
Entrepreneurship career outcomes
From renewable energy to tech startups meet the founders and CEOs born out of the Cambridge MBA programme and the drive for innovation and impact in their careers.
Hear from Mansa Shroff
Mansa shares her MBA course choices from healthcare to entrepreneurship, how she selected her consulting projects in both the digital and healthcare space and tailored her MBA year towards a transformative leadership position in her next career move.
Hear from Leo Jiang
Leo Jiang, China, was looking to explore the finance or fintech sector. He found Cambridge to be a safe place to try new ideas and to explore his ambitions in entrepreneurship, as well as get to know the start-up scene in Europe.
This year’s employment report
Our MBA employment report captures employment data for the Cambridge MBA class of 2023/24 – our most recently graduated class.
These results confirm the variety of options available to Cambridge MBAs after their studies, and also the established appeal of the versatile Cambridge Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduates to a wide range of international employers.
We have provided pre-employment data to illustrate the transformative career pathways our students often take.