Louisville, KY (population: 556,482) has four entrepreneurship schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Xavier University, the highest ranked school in this group with an entrepreneurship program, has a total student population of 6,966. It is the 182nd highest ranked school in the USA and the 5th highest in the state of Ohio (#1 is Ohio State University-Main Campus). To learn more about entrepreneurship programs in Louisville, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of entrepreneurship professors at Xavier University such as Seung Bach, Ravi Chinta, Sherrie Human, Tony Ragio, and Jim Turner.
Entrepreneurship students from Louisville schools who go on to become entrepreneurs, internet entrepreneurs, e-business entrepreneurs, e-commerce entrepreneurs, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 1,036,450 people working as business operations specialists alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $65,960. Also, Business and financial operations employees make on average $65,900 per year and there are about 6,063,670 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Louisville-Jefferson County-IN area alone, there are 22,710 employed business and financial operations employees earning an average salary of $56,540. Business operations specialists in this area earn $60,030/yr and there are 2,630 employed.
Louisville lies in Jefferson county, which is one of the 55 counties in Kentucky. Overall, the Louisville-Jefferson County-IN area has 593,940 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.7% unemployment rate, $19.22/hr average worker wage, and a $39,970 average annual salary. Thus, about 4.436 out of every 1000 jobs in Louisville are held by business operations specialists, and 38.229/1000 are held by business and financial operations employees.
Of the 4 entrepreneurship schools with a 100-mile radius of Louisville, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Xavier University comes out as the most expensive ($25,507/yr) for entrepreneurship students, with Western Kentucky University as the lowest, reported at only $9,729/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Louisville |
| Jeffersonville | IN | - | 3 | 16.878 | 5 | 4.0 miles |
| New Albany | IN | - | 1 | 50.4945 | 53 | 6.4 miles |
| Hanover | IN | - | 1 | 62.3933 | 55 | 37.1 miles |
| Saint Catharine | KY | - | 1 | 13.7868 | 38 | 44.1 miles |
| Frankfort | KY | - | 1 | 45.3097 | 44 | 47.1 miles |
| Lexington | KY | 279,146 | 12 | 25.7509 | 248 | 70.7 miles |
| Florence | KY | - | 8 | 23.3148 | 213 | 80.8 miles |
| Crestview Hills | KY | - | 1 | 24.073 | 65 | 83.8 miles |
| Covington | KY | 43,469 | 3 | 25.6472 | 61 | 87.4 miles |
| Oakland City | IN | - | 1 | 58.4328 | 69 | 87.5 miles |
| Cincinnati | OH | 332,807 | 36 | 23.3732 | 744 | 92.0 miles |
| Bowling Green | KY | 56,941 | 5 | 29.5084 | 365 | 94.6 miles |
| Greenwood | IN | 50,562 | 2 | 33.0452 | 104 | 98.9 miles |
| Evansville | IN | 115,666 | 5 | 36.7615 | 255 | 99.4 miles |
| Somerset | KY | - | 1 | 14.9987 | 47 | 99.8 miles |