RANKING: Poets&Quants' Best Online MBA Programs For 2024

A TROVE OF DATA FOR PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS

More than a ranking, we’ve always viewed this project as a massive data-gathering process for prospective students. So be sure to check out all of our supplementary articles digging into that data.

For example, of the more than 1,500 recent graduates to respond to this year’s survey from all schools, 40% reported earning a promotion directly because of their OMBA degree. Some 54% reported earning a salary increase. (See How Online MBA Grads Rated Their Degrees For Career Impact.)

No longer just a degree for upward mobility within your current company and career path, the OMBA has increasingly become an opportunity for individuals to pivot. This year, 33% of alumni reported changing employers, 20% reported changing industries, and 47% reported changing job functions. (See More Graduates Using Online MBAs To Pivot Careers).

Overall, alumni are generally happy with their degrees. When asked if they’d recommend their business programs to colleagues, friends, or family members, the average score was a 9.2 (10 would be a perfect score). (See How Online MBA Grads Rated Their Programs.)

Below is the full ranking of the top 51 online MBA programs of 2024. Click through the following pages to see how schools ranked in the three ranking categories: Admissions Standards, Career Impact, and Academic Experience.

Poets&Quants Best Online MBA Programs of 2024
Rank	School Name	Final Score	YOY Change
1	Indiana University (Kelley)	100.00	0
2	University of Washington (Foster)	94.53	6
3	University of Texas at Dallas (Naveen Jindal)	93.73	4
4	University of Michigan (Ross)	92.15	0
5	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	91.89	-3
6	Rice University (Jones)	91.34	-1
7	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	91.15	5
8	Jack Welch Management Institute	88.69	-2
9	University of Southern California (Marshall)	87.50	-6
10	Auburn University (Harbert)	86.36	4
11	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	85.13	-2
12	University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	82.71	4
13	Baylor University (Hankamer)	81.82	-2
14	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	80.51	7
15	University of Florida (Warrington)	79.76	-5
16	Lehigh University	78.95	-3
17	University of Utah (Eccles)	76.11	16
18	Hofstra University (Zarb)	74.46	12
19	University of California, Davis	74.39	1
20	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	73.03	-3
21	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	72.82	5
22	William & Mary (Mason)	72.50	5
23	University of South Florida (Muma)	72.33	2
24	Bryant University	72.23	15
25	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	71.34	-10
26	Villanova University	70.64	-3
27	North Carolina State University (Jenkins)	70.19	2
28	University of Michigan-Dearborn	69.11	-4
29	Syracuse University (Whitman)	68.73	2
30	University of Denver (Daniels)	66.86	5
31	Washington State University	65.41	-12
32	University of Maryland (Smith)	65.16	-14
33	Bowling Green State University	65.16	NR
34	University of Iowa (Tippie)	64.69	NR
35	University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	64.24	7
36	Florida International University	63.56	5
37	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	63.12	-1
38	Ohio University	62.44	-4
39	Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	61.87	-11
40	Creighton University	59.39	-3
41	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	55.88	3
42	Rogers State University	52.17	5
43	Drexel University (LeBow)	51.84	0
44	San Jose State University (Lucas)	50.37	NR
45	SUNY Oswego	47.90	0
46	University of Delaware (Lerner)	47.07	-6
47	Kennesaw State University	43.02	-15
48	American University (Kogod)	40.32	-2
49	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	25.63	-1
50	University of North Texas (Ryan)	12.97	-1
51	Clemson University	11.02	-1