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

JOB FUNCTION CHANGERS

We also asked 2024 graduates if their online MBA degrees directly led them to changing job functions. Those using the degree to switch functions fell to 44.29% from 47% last year.

Graduates of the Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business reported the highest rate of job function changes at 90%. Bryant University came next with 75% of 2024 graduates reporting changing job functions.

Of the 57 schools from which we collected data, 18 had at least 50% of their alumni report that they used the degree to change roles.

Did you change job functions as a result of the program?
Question Rank	School	Percent ‘Yes’
1	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	90.0%
2	Bryant University	80.0%
3	Rice University (Jones)	76.5%
4	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	75.0%
5	University of South Florida (Muma)	66.7%
6	University of Michigan (Ross)	62.5%
6	University of Utah (Eccles)	62.5%
8	San Jose State University (Lucas)	58.3%
9	Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	57.5%
10	SUNY Oswego	57.1%
11	University of Florida (Warrington)	56.0%
12	Jack Welch Management Institute	55.6%
12	University of Denver (Daniels)	55.6%
12	University of Maryland (Smith)	55.6%
12	William & Mary (Mason)	55.6%
16	American University (Kogod)	52.9%
17	University of California, Davis	52.6%
18	Seattle University (Albers)	50.0%
18	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	50.0%
18	Syracuse University (Whitman)	50.0%
18	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	50.0%
18	University of North Texas (Ryan)	50.0%
18	University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal)	50.0%
18	Wake Forest University	50.0%
25	University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	47.2%
26	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	45.5%
26	University of Missouri (Trulaske)	45.5%
28	Texas Tech (Rawls)	44.4%
28	University of Southern California (Marshall)	44.4%
30	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	43.8%
31	Kennesaw State University (Coles)	42.9%
31	University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	42.9%
33	Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst)	42.3%
34	Creighton University (Heider)	41.7%
35	Auburn University (Harbert)	40.0%
35	Baylor University (Hankamer)	40.0%
37	Lehigh University	38.9%
38	University of Iowa (Tippie)	37.7%
39	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	36.7%
40	Indiana University (Kelley)	36.1%
41	University of Washington (Foster)	34.6%
42	George Mason University (Costello)	33.3%
42	Rogers State University	33.3%
44	Florida International University	32.0%
45	University of Delaware (Lerner)	31.8%
46	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	30.5%
47	Hofstra University (Zarb)	28.6%
47	University of Connecticut School of Business	28.6%
47	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	28.6%
50	North Carolina State University (Poole)	27.3%
51	Ohio University	26.3%
52	Clemson University	25.0%
52	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	25.0%
54	Villanova University	21.4%
55	Fairfield University (Dolan)	20.0%
56	Drexel University (LeBow)	9.1%
57	University of Michigan-Dearborn	0.0%