2025 OMBA RANKING: Will An Online MBA Help You Change Careers? by: Kristy Bleizeffer on January 18, 2025 | 1,434 Views January 18, 2025 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit INDUSTRY CHANGERS For industry pivoters, no school had a higher percentage of alumni jump to a new industry than Bryant University where 60% of 2024 alumni pivoted. Half of graduates from University of South Florida Muma College of Business changed industries. Forty percent or more of graduates changed industries at six of the 57 OMBA programs we ranked. Did you change industries as a result of the program? Question Rank School Percent ‘Yes’ 1 Bryant University 60.0% 2 University of South Florida (Muma) 50.0% 3 University of Michigan (Ross) 43.8% 4 SUNY Oswego 42.9% 5 San Jose State University (Lucas) 41.7% 6 Santa Clara University (Leavey) 40.0% 7 Seattle University (Albers) 33.3% 7 University of North Texas (Ryan) 33.3% 7 University of Southern California (Marshall) 33.3% 10 University of Missouri (Trulaske) 27.3% 11 University of Florida (Warrington) 26.0% 12 Kennesaw State University (Coles) 25.0% 12 Pepperdine University (Graziadio) 25.0% 12 University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) 25.0% 15 Southern Methodist University (Cox) 23.7% 16 American University (Kogod) 23.5% 17 Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) 23.1% 18 George Mason University (Costello) 22.2% 18 Texas Tech (Rawls) 22.2% 18 University of Maryland (Smith) 22.2% 21 Jack Welch Management Institute 21.1% 22 University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 20.4% 23 Auburn University (Harbert) 20.0% 24 University of Washington (Foster) 19.2% 25 North Carolina State University (Poole) 18.2% 25 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 18.2% 27 Creighton University (Heider) 16.7% 27 Wake Forest University 16.7% 29 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 16.4% 30 Florida International University 16.0% 31 University of California, Davis 15.8% 32 University of Massachusetts-Lowell 15.3% 33 University of Connecticut School of Business 14.3% 33 University of Iowa (Tippie) 14.3% 33 Villanova University 14.3% 36 Baylor University (Hankamer) 13.3% 36 Fairfield University (Dolan) 13.3% 38 University of Utah (Eccles) 12.5% 39 Indiana University (Kelley) 12.4% 40 Rice University (Jones) 11.8% 41 Lehigh University 11.1% 41 Syracuse University (Whitman) 11.1% 41 University of Denver (Daniels) 11.1% 41 University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) 11.1% 41 William & Mary (Mason) 11.1% 46 University of Cincinnati (Lindner) 9.5% 47 Louisiana State University (Ourso) 8.3% 48 Ohio University 5.3% 49 Clemson University 0.0% 49 Drexel University (LeBow) 0.0% 49 Hofstra University (Zarb) 0.0% 49 Rogers State University 0.0% 49 University of Delaware (Lerner) 0.0% 49 University of Michigan-Dearborn 0.0% 49 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 0.0% 49 University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium 0.0% 49 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 0.0% Click through to see how many alumni at each school were able to make changes in: EMPLOYERS INDUSTRIES JOB FUNCTIONS CAREERS Previous Page Continue ReadingPage 2 of 4 1 2 3 4