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

ADMISSION STANDARDS

For the third straight year, No. 1 overall Indiana University (Kelley) had the toughest admission standards in our ranking.

Within this category, we gave the average undergraduate GPA of the most recent incoming class a 30% weight, average years of work experience a 30% weight, acceptance rate a 20% weight, and average adjusted GMAT score a 20% weight.

Kelley was the most selective of all the schools with a 28% acceptance rate, while Bryant University and Jack Welch Management Institute had the highest average work experience at 15 years. University of Maryland (Smith) boasted the highest undergraduate GPA at 3.8. And, University of Texas at Dallas (Naveen Jindal) had the highest adjusted GMAT average.

Below is the Admissions Standards rank (accounting for 33% of the overall rank) for all 51 schools.

Ranking Online MBA on Admissions Standards
Admissions Rank	School Names	Admissions Total	2024 Overall Rank
1	Indiana University (Kelley)	100.00	1
2	University of Texas at Dallas (Naveen Jindal)	95.70	3
3	Jack Welch Management Institute	88.89	8
4	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	82.53	7
5	University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	77.65	12
6	Bryant University	77.02	24
7	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	76.99	14
8	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	75.81	21
9	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	75.50	5
10	University of Washington (Foster)	74.29	2
11	Auburn University (Harbert)	72.18	10
12	University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	72.14	35
13	University of Michigan (Ross)	71.01	4
14	Rice University (Jones)	67.99	6
15	University of Utah (Eccles)	66.11	17
16	University of South Florida (Muma)	64.82	23
17	University of Michigan-Dearborn	62.70	28
18	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	60.28	41
19	Villanova University	57.78	26
20	University of Southern California (Marshall)	57.67	9
21	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	57.51	37
22	University of Maryland (Smith)	57.21	32
23	Rogers State University	54.47	42
24	University of Florida (Warrington)	52.39	15
25	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	52.06	25
26	University of California, Davis	51.46	19
27	Baylor University (Hankamer)	50.35	13
28	SUNY Oswego	49.01	45
29	Hofstra University (Zarb)	48.87	18
30	North Carolina State University (Jenkins)	44.76	27
31	Kennesaw State University	44.22	47
32	Santa Clara University	43.93	11
33	Lehigh University	43.53	16
34	Washington State University	43.02	31
35	San Jose State University (Lucas)	42.38	44
36	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	42.35	49
37	Florida International University	41.99	36
38	University of Denver (Daniels)	40.25	30
39	Drexel University (LeBow)	40.00	43
40	University of Iowa	39.81	34
41	Creighton University	39.59	40
42	University of Delaware (Lerner)	38.34	46
43	Syracuse University (Whitman)	36.14	29
44	Bowling Green State University	34.67	33
45	University of North Texas (Ryan)	34.62	50
46	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	34.12	20
47	Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	31.12	39
48	Clemson University	24.67	51
49	William & Mary (Mason)	24.54	22
50	Ohio University	21.99	38
51	American University (Kogod)	0.00	48