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JOB FUNCTION CHANGERS

We also asked 2023 graduates if their online MBA degrees directly led them to changing job functions.

Those using the degree to switch job functions climbed from 45.42% last year to 47% this year.
Graduates of the University of Texas at Dallas reported the highest rate of job function changes at 80%. University of Delaware (Lerner) came next with 75% of 2023 graduates reported changing job functions.

Of the 51 schools from which we collected data, 21 had at least 50% of their alumni report that they used the degree to change job functions.

Did you change job functions as a result of the program?
School	Percent ‘Yes’
University of Texas at Dallas	80%
University of Delaware (Lerner)	75%
Rogers State University	71.43%
University of Utah (Eccles)	71.43%
Rice University (Jones)	70.83%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	66.67%
University of Michigan (Ross)	60%
Indiana University (Kelley)	59.84%
University of Washington (Foster)	58.82%
Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	58.33%
Auburn University (Harbert)	57.14%
University of Maryland (Smith)	56.73%
Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	55.17%
Ohio University	54.29%
William & Mary (Mason)	53.66%
Clemson University	53.33%
Florida International University	53.33%
Southern Methodist University (Cox)	51.85%
Baylor University (Hankamer)	50%
University of California, Davis	50%
University of Southern California (Marshall)	50%
University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	47.06%
University of North Texas	46.43%
Lehigh University	45.45%
American University (Kogod)	45%
Jack Welch Management Institute	44.83%
San Jose State University (Lucas)	43.75%
University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	43.75%
University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	43.48%
University of Nebraska	42.86%
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	42.86%
Washington State University	41.77%
Bowling Green	41.67%
University of South Florida (Muma)	41.67%
University of Florida (Warrington)	41.38%
Villanova University	41.18%
University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	40.91%
SUNY Oswego	40%
University of Massachusetts-Lowell	39.66%
University of Denver (Daniels)	38.46%
North Carolina State University (Jenkins)	37.50%
Syracuse University (Whitman)	37.04%
Louisiana State University (Ourso)	35.71%
University of Iowa (Tippie)	35.06%
Bryant University	33.33%
Creighton University (Heider)	33.33%
University of Michigan-Dearborn	30%
Drexel University (LeBow)	29.41%
Kennesaw State University	25%
Santa Clara University (Leavey)	25%
Hofstra University (Zarb)	22.22%

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JOB FUNCTION CHANGERS

Did you change job functions as a result of the program?