2025 OMBA RANKING: Will An Online MBA Help You Change Careers?

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%