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

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

The Academic Experience category is used to measure the learning experience students can expect from an online MBA program. Data is collected through the alumni survey sent to the most recent graduates, averaged with responses of the two previous classes.

Academic experience is based on the average score of 15 one-to-ten scaled questions (80%) and the average rating of two other questions looking at student clubs and organizations and completing a consulting project (20%).

Get more data from our Academic Experience category here.

Below is the Academic Experience rank (accounting for 33% of the overall rank) for all 57 schools.

Ranking Online MBA on Academic Experience
Academic Ex. Rank	School	Academic Ex. Total	2025 Overall Rank
1	Hofstra University (Zarb)	100.0000	9
2	University of Washington (Foster)	99.3804	4
3	Indiana University (Kelley)	96.5098	2
4	University of Utah (Eccles)	94.1271	18
5	Rice University (Jones)	93.5229	5
6	University of Michigan (Ross)	93.1367	2
7	North Carolina State University (Poole)	92.6483	29
8	Jack Welch Management Institute	92.3276	8
9	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	92.2273	21
10	William & Mary (Mason)	92.0532	19
11	Auburn University (Harbert)	91.8827	11
12	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	91.5204	14
13	Wake Forest University	90.6468	25
14	Syracuse University (Whitman)	89.8858	30
15	University of Florida (Warrington)	89.8116	10
16	University of Southern California (Marshall)	89.5667	6
17	Villanova University	89.4217	28
18	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	89.2739	7
19	University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal)	89.1311	1
20	University of Denver (Daniels)	88.9798	20
21	Lehigh University	88.2694	13
22	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	88.0780	12
23	University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	88.0655	15
24	University of Iowa (Tippie)	87.7177	27
25	University of South Florida (Muma)	87.1493	17
26	University of Connecticut School of Business	87.1106	33
27	Creighton University (Heider)	86.5144	40
28	Baylor University (Hankamer)	84.5974	38
29	University of California, Davis	84.3311	22
30	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	82.2860	25
31	Florida International University	79.9310	31
32	Ohio University	79.7653	44
33	Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	79.0865	45
34	University of Maryland (Smith)	78.4683	32
35	Fairfield University (Dolan)	78.4424	23
36	University of Delaware (Lerner)	77.1088	41
37	Texas Tech (Rawls)	76.6702	35
38	Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst)	76.1688	36
39	American University (Kogod)	76.1652	50
40	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	75.2368	24
41	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	73.5229	43
42	Drexel University (LeBow)	73.2830	48
43	San Jose State University (Lucas)	73.2585	34
44	University of Michigan-Dearborn	71.5011	42
45	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	69.9970	37
46	University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	66.4005	38
47	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	66.3784	47
48	Bryant University	65.0280	16
49	Kennesaw State University (Coles)	61.7826	46
50	University of Missouri (Trulaske)	58.4273	53
51	Rogers State University	57.1635	49
52	SUNY Oswego	56.7355	51
53	George Mason University (Costello)	52.3254	52
54	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	37.8826	55
55	Clemson University	37.2259	54
56	Seattle University (Albers)	31.8027	56
57	University of North Texas (Ryan)	11.2804	57