The Best Online MBA Programs In The U.S. For 2025

CAREER OUTCOMES

Career Outcomes is used to measure how the online MBA has impacted alumni career prospects during the program or shortly after graduation.

Data is collected from responses to the alumni survey, and we average data from that last three classes to calculate the category. Career Outcomes also accounts for 33% of the overall ranking.

Here, we’re looking at the average percentage of graduates to report earning a promotion and/or salary increase during or shortly after their program (accounting for 40% of the category score), the average rating alumni gave their school’s career services and advising offices (20%), the average percentage of graduates to say the program helped them reach their primary and secondary career goal (20% and 10% respectively), and building a quality professional network (10%).

Find more detail on how alumni rated their schools for career impact here. Below is the Career Outcomes rank (accounting for 33% of the overall rank) for all 57 schools.

Ranking Online MBA On Career Outcomes
Career Rank	School	Career Total	2025 Overall Rank
1	University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal)	100.0000	1
2	University of Michigan (Ross)	98.9121	2
3	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	97.9713	12
4	Rice University (Jones)	95.3284	5
5	University of Southern California (Marshall)	91.5075	6
6	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	86.7991	21
7	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	86.4371	7
8	William & Mary (Mason)	84.1622	19
9	University of Washington (Foster)	83.2665	4
10	University of Maryland (Smith)	82.3359	32
11	Indiana University (Kelley)	81.5566	2
12	University of Utah (Eccles)	81.2514	18
13	Hofstra University (Zarb)	81.2414	9
14	Lehigh University	80.9080	13
15	University of Florida (Warrington)	80.3898	10
16	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	78.7221	14
17	Auburn University (Harbert)	76.7936	11
18	University of South Florida (Muma)	76.7132	17
19	Jack Welch Management Institute	75.9639	8
20	University of Michigan-Dearborn	75.4983	42
21	University of California, Davis	74.9231	22
22	Bryant University	73.6405	16
23	Syracuse University (Whitman)	71.7550	30
24	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	71.3666	24
25	University of Denver (Daniels)	70.0243	20
26	Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst)	69.6776	36
27	University of Connecticut School of Business	68.9893	33
28	Wake Forest University	68.6596	25
29	University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	68.2177	15
30	North Carolina State University (Poole)	68.1716	29
31	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	67.4206	25
32	Baylor University (Hankamer)	66.9856	38
33	Ohio University	66.6694	44
34	Villanova University	66.2661	28
35	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	65.2865	37
36	University of Iowa (Tippie)	64.5201	27
37	Florida International University	63.8551	31
38	Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	62.3270	45
39	University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	61.0306	38
40	American University (Kogod)	59.7986	50
41	Kennesaw State University (Coles)	57.8434	46
42	San Jose State University (Lucas)	57.2898	34
43	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	56.8204	47
44	University of Delaware (Lerner)	52.7986	41
45	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	52.7082	43
46	Fairfield University (Dolan)	51.9864	23
47	University of Missouri (Trulaske)	47.6757	53
48	George Mason University (Costello)	46.9711	52
49	Creighton University (Heider)	46.1452	40
50	Drexel University (LeBow)	44.2847	48
51	Rogers State University	44.2291	49
52	Texas Tech (Rawls)	43.2805	35
53	SUNY Oswego	37.0441	51
54	Clemson University	32.2359	54
55	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	29.4275	55
56	Seattle University (Albers)	21.4300	56
57	University of North Texas (Ryan)	10.2158	57

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CAREER OUTCOMES

Ranking Online MBA On Career Outcomes

Career Rank

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Career Total

2025 Overall Rank