Poets&Quants | How Online MBA Students Rate Their Programs

How did 2024 grads rate their online MBA programs for professor quality, ability to make connections, experiential learning and more?

If you want to get down to the nitty gritty of how one online MBA stacks against another in the ways that most matter to prospective students, ask the alumni.

And that’s what we do each year as an essential part of our ranking of the best online MBA programs in the U.S. (See 2025’s full ranking here.)

Two out of three categories rank relies on responses to our alumni surveys, sent to thousands of the schools’ most recent graduates. These categories – Academic Experience and Career Outcomes – asks graduates questions ranging from whether or not they would recommend their online MBA programs to others to the quality and responsiveness of their instructors. We also ask a series of questions relating to how well the program has impacted their careers, either during the program or immediately after.

You can find more about the career questions in our story, “How Online MBA 2024 Graduates Rated The Degree’s Career Impact.”

These surveys give us and our readers a pulse on what programs are doing well, according to their recent graduates, and what programs are not doing as well.

This year, we surveyed alumni from the Class of 2024, those graduating between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024. The survey was sent to 7,823 eligible alumni at 57 ranked programs with 1,293 returned surveys. That’s a 17% response rate.

As with previous years, we asked alumni more than a dozen questions about their academic experience ranging from their ability to make connections with their instructors and classmates to how immediately they were able to apply what they were learning in the classroom.

On the following pages, we show how Class of 2024 alumni from each of the 57 participating schools rated their programs on a number of factors. Click through each page, or go to a particular category listed below:

PAGE 2: WOULD RECOMMEND
PAGE 3: FORMAT SATISFACTION
PAGE 4: QUALITY OF PROFESSORS
PAGE 5: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
PAGE 6: APPLYING LESSONS AT WORK
PAGE 7: MAKING CONNECTIONS