Oklahoma City, OK (population: 564,147) has seven entrepreneurship schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Oklahoma State University-Main Campus, the highest ranked school in this group with an entrepreneurship program, has a total student population of 23,033. It is the 1086th highest ranked school in the USA and the 11th highest in the state of Oklahoma (#1 is Oklahoma City University).
Entrepreneurship students from Oklahoma City 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 Oklahoma City area alone, there are 26,920 employed business and financial operations employees earning an average salary of $53,920. Business operations specialists in this area earn $67,420/yr and there are 2,660 employed.
Oklahoma City lies in Oklahoma county, which is one of the 41 counties in Oklahoma. Overall, the Oklahoma City area has 564,710 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.5% unemployment rate, $18.31/hr average worker wage, and a $38,090 average annual salary. Thus, about 4.708 out of every 1000 jobs in Oklahoma City are held by business operations specialists, and 47.675/1000 are held by business and financial operations employees.
Of the 7 entrepreneurship schools with a 100-mile radius of Oklahoma City, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Oklahoma Baptist University comes out as the most expensive ($14,753/yr) for entrepreneurship students, with Moore Norman Technology Center as the lowest, reported at only $3,192/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Oklahoma City |
| Midwest City | OK | 57,117 | 2 | 17.3383 | 110 | 7.9 miles |
| Choctaw | OK | - | 1 | 23.6866 | 52 | 13.7 miles |
| Edmond | OK | 83,110 | 2 | 44.4236 | 227 | 14.9 miles |
| Norman | OK | 109,682 | 3 | 32.5918 | 201 | 19.2 miles |
| El Reno | OK | - | 2 | 15.8225 | 75 | 25.4 miles |
| Seminole | OK | - | 1 | 13.2494 | 38 | 50.3 miles |
| Stillwater | OK | 49,103 | 3 | 29.7057 | 219 | 51.9 miles |
| Ada | OK | - | 3 | 41.9631 | 159 | 67.3 miles |
| Weatherford | OK | - | 2 | 18.0217 | 135 | 67.6 miles |
| Enid | OK | 48,152 | 2 | 30.1217 | 45 | 68.1 miles |
| Lawton | OK | 87,265 | 4 | 24.3174 | 114 | 79.2 miles |
| Ponca City | OK | - | 2 | 30.535 | 26 | 88.8 miles |
| Ardmore | OK | - | 1 | 18.2326 | 23 | 92.0 miles |