How Online MBA Students Rate Their Programs

Sometimes the best way to truly know a degree program is to ask alumni. As part of our annual ranking of best online MBA programs, we survey thousands of recently graduated alumni of those programs. The data we collect makes up two-thirds of the methodology of this ranking. But more importantly, it gives us and our readers a pulse on what programs are doing well, according to their recent graduates, and what programs are not doing as well.

This year surveys were sent to 6,824 graduates at 52 online MBA programs between May and September. Of those, a total of 1,229 responded for an overall response rate of about 18%. For schools to qualify their alumni data, they had to meet a minimum response rate of 10%.

As with previous years, we asked alumni more than a dozen questions about their academic experience ranging from if they’d recommend the business program to a colleague, friend, or relative to how immediately they were able to apply what they were learning in the classroom to their jobs to their satisfaction with consulting projects provided to them. Check out the following pages to see how each of the 52 participating schools did on each question below.

Would you recommend the business program to a colleague, friend, or relative?

How would you appraise the overall quality of professors in the online MBA program?

How accessible and responsive were your professors?

Please rate your level of satisfaction with the synchronous sessions.

Please rate your level of satisfaction with the “asynchronous” portion of the online MBA program.

If you met in person for class and/or trips, please rate your satisfaction with the in-person portions of the program.

How would you appraise the amount and quality of teamwork within your online MBA program?

Please rate your level of satisfaction with your ability to participate in and learn from doing presentations in the program.

Please rate your level of satisfaction with your ability to immediately apply what you learned in the program to your job.

Please rate your level of satisfaction with the flexibility provided by the program.

Please rate your level of satisfaction with the opportunities provided to create good connections with fellow students.

Please rate your level of satisfaction with the opportunities provided to create good connections with faculty.

Rate your level of satisfaction with the student clubs and organizations.

If you did participate in a consulting project for a client organization, please rate your satisfaction with that project.

More About Poets&Quants’ 2022 Online MBA Ranking

The Complete Ranking: How each of 52 of the best online MBAs place 

Evaluating Each Online Program: How Online MBA Students Rate Their Programs

What Online MBA Students Get: How Online MBA Students Rate Their Degree’s Career Impact

Gaining Admissions: Acceptance Rates For The Top Online MBA Programs

What It Takes To Get In: Average GMATs, GREs and GPAs At Top Online MBA Programs