RANKING: Poets&Quants’ Best Online MBA Programs For 2024 by: Kristy Bleizeffer on November 27, 2023 | 68,660 Views November 27, 2023 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit CAREER IMPACT Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business won the career outcomes category, based on alumni survey data, for the third year in a row. Alumni gave it the highest marks over a three-year average for having the most effective career coaching and advising and the second highest score in alumni getting promotions and raises as a result of the degree. After Santa Clara, Rice University Jones placed second overall in the category followed by University of Michigan Ross. Career outcomes is based on alumni responses to: the average percentage of graduates to report earning a promotion and/or salary increase (40%) the average rating alumni gave their school’s career services and advising office (20%) the average percentage of graduates to say the program helped them reach their primary career goal (20%) the average percentage of graduates to say the program helped them reach their secondary career goal (10%) the ratings given to their ability to build a professional network through the online MBA program (5%) the quality of that network (5%) Find more detail on how alumni rated their schools for career impact here. Below is the Career Impact rank (accounting for 33% of the overall rank) for all 51 schools. Ranking Online MBA On Career Impact Career Rank School Name Career Total 2024 Overall Rank 1 Santa Clara University (Leavey) 100.00 11 2 Rice University (Jones) 95.52 6 3 University of Michigan (Ross) 94.85 4 4 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 93.01 5 5 University of Southern California (Marshall) 91.41 9 6 University of Washington (Foster) 84.96 2 7 University of Texas at Dallas 84.05 3 8 Baylor University (Hankamer) 83.16 13 9 William & Mary (Mason) 81.57 22 10 Indiana University (Kelley) 81.06 1 11 University of Florida (Warrington) 81.05 15 12 Lehigh University 80.87 16 13 University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 76.92 7 14 Auburn University (Harbert) 76.67 10 15 Southern Methodist University (Cox) 74.29 20 16 University of California, Davis 71.11 19 17 Bowling Green 70.06 33 18 Jack Welch Management Institute 67.77 8 19 University of Michigan-Dearborn 66.61 28 20 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 66.56 14 21 Pepperdine University (Graziadio) 66.11 39 22 North Carolina State University (Jenkins) 65.97 27 23 Syracuse University (Whitman) 65.67 29 24 Ohio University 65.56 38 25 Hofstra University (Zarb) 64.93 18 26 University of Maryland (Smith) 64.33 32 27 University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) 63.73 12 28 Florida International University 62.49 36 29 University of Utah (Eccles) 61.54 17 30 University of Nebraska 61.34 25 31 Washington State University 59.71 31 32 University of Iowa (Tippie) 57.92 34 33 Bryant University 56.82 24 34 University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium 55.71 21 35 Villanova University 53.90 26 36 University of South Florida (Muma) 53.72 23 37 University of Denver (Daniels) 53.13 30 38 University of Massachusetts-Lowell 52.57 37 39 American University (Kogod) 51.31 48 40 University of Cincinnati (Lindner) 48.46 35 41 Drexel University 46.49 43 42 Creighton University (Heider) 45.74 40 43 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 42.62 41 44 Rogers State University 39.04 42 45 San Jose State University (Lucas) 38.29 44 46 University of Delaware (Lerner) 34.88 46 47 SUNY Oswego 31.79 45 48 Kennesaw State University 26.49 47 49 Louisiana State University (Ourso) 13.12 49 50 Clemson University 5.54 51 51 University of North Texas 0.00 50 Continue reading: PAGE 6: How Schools Ranked on Academic Experience Previous Page Continue ReadingPage 5 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6