2025 Online MBA Ranking: How Graduates Rated The Degree’s Career Impact

CAREER SERVICES

Poets&Quants asked two questions asking alumni to rate their satisfaction with their program’s career coaches and services. Career services are typically central to residential MBA programs and are becoming increasingly important for quality online programs as well.

Alumni from six programs rated their satisfaction with career coaches and mentors a 10 out of 10. Another 16 rated their satisfaction as a 9 or higher.

If you did work with a career coach and/or mentor as part of the online MBA program, rate your satisfaction.
Question Rank	School	Coach Satisfaction
1	Bryant University	10.0
1	Clemson University	10.0
1	Hofstra University (Zarb)	10.0
1	University of Denver (Daniels)	10.0
1	Wake Forest University	10.0
1	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	10.0
7	North Carolina State University (Poole)	9.9
8	University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	9.8
8	University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal)	9.8
10	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	9.7
11	Rice University (Jones)	9.5
12	University of Utah (Eccles)	9.4
13	Auburn University (Harbert)	9.3
13	University of Iowa (Tippie)	9.3
13	University of Washington (Foster)	9.3
16	Jack Welch Management Institute	9.2
16	University of Michigan (Ross)	9.2
18	Indiana University (Kelley)	9.1
19	Drexel University (LeBow)	9.0
19	University of Delaware (Lerner)	9.0
19	University of Florida (Warrington)	9.0
19	University of South Florida (Muma)	9.0
23	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	8.9
23	Villanova University	8.9
25	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	8.8
25	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	8.8
25	University of Connecticut School of Business	8.8
28	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	8.7
29	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	8.6
30	University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	8.5
30	University of Southern California (Marshall)	8.5
32	Creighton University (Heider)	8.3
32	Lehigh University	8.3
32	William & Mary (Mason)	8.3
35	Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst)	8.2
35	Florida International University	8.2
35	San Jose State University (Lucas)	8.2
38	Baylor University (Hankamer)	8.1
38	University of California, Davis	8.1
40	University of Michigan-Dearborn	8.0
40	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	8.0
42	American University (Kogod)	7.9
42	Fairfield University (Dolan)	7.9
42	Syracuse University (Whitman)	7.9
45	University of Maryland (Smith)	7.8
46	Ohio University	7.4
46	Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	7.4
48	University of North Texas (Ryan)	7.3
49	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	6.9
50	University of Missouri (Trulaske)	6.7
51	SUNY Oswego	6.5
52	George Mason University (Costello)	6.0
53	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	5.9
54	Seattle University (Albers)	5.7
55	Texas Tech (Rawls)	5.3
56	Kennesaw State University (Coles)	5.0
57	Rogers State University	0.0

Regarding satisfaction with their program’s career services overall, alumni from five programs rated their schools as 10s. Thirteen other programs were rated as 9s or higher.

Rate your satisfaction with the career services office.
Question Rank	School	Satisfaction Career Services
1	Bryant University	10.0
1	Hofstra University (Zarb)	10.0
1	University of Denver (Daniels)	10.0
1	University of Michigan-Dearborn	10.0
1	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	10.0
6	University of South Florida (Muma)	9.8
6	University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal)	9.8
8	University of North Texas (Ryan)	9.7
9	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	9.5
9	University of Washington (Foster)	9.5
11	Rice University (Jones)	9.3
11	University of Delaware (Lerner)	9.3
11	University of Michigan (Ross)	9.3
11	University of Southern California (Marshall)	9.3
15	Syracuse University (Whitman)	9.2
15	University of Utah (Eccles)	9.2
17	Indiana University (Kelley)	9.0
17	University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	9.0
19	University of Florida (Warrington)	8.9
20	Jack Welch Management Institute	8.8
20	University of Connecticut School of Business	8.8
22	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	8.7
22	Creighton University (Heider)	8.7
22	University of Iowa (Tippie)	8.7
25	San Jose State University (Lucas)	8.6
25	Villanova University	8.6
27	North Carolina State University (Poole)	8.5
27	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	8.5
27	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	8.5
30	University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	8.4
31	American University (Kogod)	8.3
31	Auburn University (Harbert)	8.3
31	Clemson University	8.3
31	Drexel University (LeBow)	8.3
31	Lehigh University	8.3
36	Ohio University	8.1
37	University of Maryland (Smith)	8.0
38	William & Mary (Mason)	7.9
39	Baylor University (Hankamer)	7.8
39	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	7.8
41	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	7.7
42	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	7.6
43	Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst)	7.5
43	University of California, Davis	7.5
43	University of Missouri (Trulaske)	7.5
43	Wake Forest University	7.5
47	Florida International University	7.4
48	Fairfield University (Dolan)	7.1
49	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	7.0
50	Seattle University (Albers)	6.7
50	Texas Tech (Rawls)	6.7
50	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	6.7
53	Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	6.4
54	Kennesaw State University (Coles)	6.0
55	SUNY Oswego	5.0
56	George Mason University (Costello)	4.0
57	Rogers State University	0.0

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