Poets&Quants | How Online MBA Students Rate Their Programs

WOULD YOU RECOMMEND?

Perhaps the most important question we ask on the alumni survey is the likelihood they would recommend their online MBA program to others. At the end of the day – after spending tens of thousands of dollars and two or more years of their lives – it is the ultimate testament to program quality.

Across the board, all the ranked schools did well on this measure with 36 separate programs receiving an alumni average score of 9 or above on a ten-point scale, with ten reflecting the strongest recommendation from graduates.

Hofstra University (Zarb) and North Carolina State University (Poole) scored the highest with perfect 10s. In other words, all alumni surveyed said they would be very likely to recommend the program to friends, family or colleagues.

Would you recommend the business program to a colleague, friend, or relative?
Question Rank	School	Would Recommend
1	Hofstra University (Zarb)	10.0
1	North Carolina State University (Poole)	10.0
3	University of Connecticut School of Business	9.9
4	University of Utah (Eccles)	9.8
5	Auburn University (Harbert)	9.7
5	Indiana University (Kelley)	9.7
5	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	9.7
5	University of Michigan (Ross)	9.7
5	University of South Florida (Muma)	9.7
5	University of Washington (Foster)	9.7
11	University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	9.6
11	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	9.6
11	William & Mary (Mason)	9.6
14	Creighton University (Heider)	9.5
14	Rice University (Jones)	9.5
14	University of Iowa (Tippie)	9.5
17	Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst)	9.4
17	Jack Welch Management Institute	9.4
17	Lehigh University	9.4
17	University of Maryland (Smith)	9.4
17	University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal)	9.4
22	Florida International University	9.3
22	University of Florida (Warrington)	9.3
22	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	9.3
22	Villanova University	9.3
22	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	9.3
27	Bryant University	9.2
27	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	9.2
27	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	9.2
27	Syracuse University (Whitman)	9.2
27	Texas Tech (Rawls)	9.2
27	University of Denver (Daniels)	9.2
27	University of North Texas (Ryan)	9.2
27	University of Southern California (Marshall)	9.2
35	Baylor University (Hankamer)	9.1
35	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	9.1
37	Rogers State University	9.0
37	University of Delaware (Lerner)	9.0
39	Kennesaw State University (Coles)	8.9
39	Ohio University	8.9
39	University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	8.9
42	George Mason University (Costello)	8.8
42	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	8.8
42	American University (Kogod)	8.8
45	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	8.7
46	Clemson University	8.6
46	Drexel University (LeBow)	8.6
46	University of Michigan-Dearborn	8.6
49	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	8.5
49	University of California, Davis	8.5
49	Wake Forest University	8.5
52	Fairfield University (Dolan)	8.3
52	San Jose State University (Lucas)	8.3
52	SUNY Oswego	8.3
55	Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	8.1
56	University of Missouri (Trulaske)	7.8
57	Seattle University (Albers)	7.5

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