El Paso, TX (population: 631,862) has twenty entrepreneurship schools within a 500-mile radius of its city center. Northern Arizona University, the highest ranked school in this group with an entrepreneurship program, has a total student population of 23,597. It is the 225th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Arizona.
Entrepreneurship students from El Paso 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 El Paso area alone, there are 9,560 employed business and financial operations employees earning an average salary of $54,660. Business operations specialists in this area earn $58,830/yr and there are 1,850 employed.
El Paso lies in El Paso county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the El Paso area has 269,250 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 2.0% unemployment rate, $16.37/hr average worker wage, and a $34,050 average annual salary. Thus, about 6.875 out of every 1000 jobs in El Paso are held by business operations specialists, and 35.503/1000 are held by business and financial operations employees.
Of the 20 entrepreneurship schools with a 500-mile radius of El Paso, only 6 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-Online Campus comes out as the most expensive ($25,066/yr) for entrepreneurship students, with Northern New Mexico College as the lowest, reported at only $5,623/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from El Paso |
| Las Cruces | NM | 95,663 | 3 | 29.6043 | 193 | 38.7 miles |
| Alamogordo | NM | - | 2 | 15.3602 | 50 | 77.8 miles |