Memphis, TN (population: 662,989) has one entrepreneurship school within a 100-mile radius of its city center. East Arkansas Community College has a total student population of 1,530. It is the 5813th highest ranked school in the USA and the 76th highest in the state of Arkansas (#1 is Harding University).
Entrepreneurship students from Memphis 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 Memphis-MS-AR area alone, there are 23,670 employed business and financial operations employees earning an average salary of $63,770. Business operations specialists in this area earn $72,930/yr and there are 7,380 employed.
Memphis lies in Shelby county, which is one of the 26 counties in Tennessee. Overall, the Memphis-MS-AR area has 605,630 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.2% unemployment rate, $18.93/hr average worker wage, and a $39,380 average annual salary. Thus, about 12.182 out of every 1000 jobs in Memphis are held by business operations specialists, and 39.081/1000 are held by business and financial operations employees.
After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, East Arkansas Community College ends up costing a student $2,502/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Memphis |
| Southaven | MS | 47,625 | 1 | 27.9087 | 11 | 9.7 miles |
| Bartlett | TN | 47,744 | 0 | - | 0 | 12.3 miles |
| Senatobia | MS | - | 1 | 17.4796 | 114 | 34.1 miles |
| Jonesboro | AR | 66,734 | 1 | 24.4204 | 8 | 62.3 miles |
| State University | AR | - | 1 | 57.8251 | 135 | 63.1 miles |