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

CAREER CHANGERS

When we averaged all three categories of job changes (employers, industries, and job functions), Santa Clara University (Leavey) (ranked 12th overall in our 2025 OMBA ranking) had the highest overall average of 60%. That’s 50% of its surveyed 2024 alumni changing employers, 40% changing industries, and 90% changing job functions.

University of South Florida (Muma) (ranked 17th overall) had the second highest percentage of changers at 55.56%.

Of all 57 ranked online MBA programs, six or more had half or more of their alumni report career changes as a result of their degree, while four others reported 40% or more changers.

Average Career Changes At The Top OMBA Programs
2025 Overall Rank	School	Changed Employers	Changed Industries	Changed Job Function	Average
12	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	50.0%	40.0%	90.0%	60.0%
17	University of South Florida (Muma)	50.0%	50.0%	66.7%	55.6%
2	University of Michigan (Ross)	56.3%	43.8%	62.5%	54.2%
16	Bryant University	20.0%	60.0%	80.0%	53.3%
34	San Jose State University (Lucas)	58.3%	41.7%	58.3%	52.8%
51	SUNY Oswego	57.1%	42.9%	57.1%	52.4%
32	University of Maryland (Smith)	55.6%	22.2%	55.6%	44.5%
5	Rice University (Jones)	35.3%	11.8%	76.5%	41.2%
6	University of Southern California (Marshall)	44.4%	33.3%	44.4%	40.7%
10	University of Florida (Warrington)	38.0%	26.0%	56.0%	40.0%
21	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	44.7%	23.7%	50.0%	39.5%
25	Wake Forest University	50.0%	16.7%	50.0%	38.9%
57	University of North Texas (Ryan)	33.3%	33.3%	50.0%	38.9%
45	Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	32.5%	25.0%	57.5%	38.3%
50	American University (Kogod)	35.3%	23.5%	52.9%	37.3%
19	William & Mary (Mason)	44.4%	11.1%	55.6%	37.0%
8	Jack Welch Management Institute	31.5%	21.1%	55.6%	36.0%
14	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	33.3%	20.4%	50.0%	34.6%
56	Seattle University (Albers)	16.7%	33.3%	50.0%	33.3%
22	University of California, Davis	31.6%	15.8%	52.6%	33.3%
1	University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal)	25.0%	25.0%	50.0%	33.3%
18	University of Utah (Eccles)	25.0%	12.5%	62.5%	33.3%
52	George Mason University (Costello)	44.4%	22.2%	33.3%	33.3%
53	University of Missouri (Trulaske)	27.3%	27.3%	45.5%	33.3%
7	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	32.7%	16.4%	45.5%	31.5%
36	Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst)	26.9%	23.1%	42.3%	30.8%
40	Creighton University (Heider)	33.3%	16.7%	41.7%	30.6%
20	University of Denver (Daniels)	22.2%	11.1%	55.6%	29.6%
25	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	27.3%	18.2%	36.4%	27.3%
15	University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	22.2%	11.1%	47.2%	26.9%
46	Kennesaw State University (Coles)	12.5%	25.0%	42.9%	26.8%
11	Auburn University (Harbert)	20.0%	20.0%	40.0%	26.7%
2	Indiana University (Kelley)	30.9%	12.4%	36.1%	26.5%
30	Syracuse University (Whitman)	16.7%	11.1%	50.0%	25.9%
24	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	0.0%	0.0%	75.0%	25.0%
27	University of Iowa (Tippie)	22.1%	14.3%	37.7%	24.7%
38	Baylor University (Hankamer)	20.0%	13.3%	40.0%	24.4%
13	Lehigh University	22.2%	11.1%	38.9%	24.1%
38	University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	19.1%	9.5%	42.9%	23.8%
28	Villanova University	35.7%	14.3%	21.4%	23.8%
4	University of Washington (Foster)	17.3%	19.2%	34.6%	23.7%
43	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	23.7%	15.3%	30.5%	23.2%
31	Florida International University	20.0%	16.0%	32.0%	22.7%
35	Texas Tech (Rawls)	0.0%	22.2%	44.4%	22.2%
29	North Carolina State University (Poole)	18.2%	18.2%	27.3%	21.2%
55	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	25.0%	8.3%	25.0%	19.4%
33	University of Connecticut School of Business	14.3%	14.3%	28.6%	19.1%
23	Fairfield University (Dolan)	20.0%	13.3%	20.0%	17.8%
37	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	0.0%	0.0%	43.8%	14.6%
9	Hofstra University (Zarb)	14.3%	0.0%	28.6%	14.3%
44	Ohio University	10.5%	5.3%	26.3%	14.0%
41	University of Delaware (Lerner)	4.6%	0.0%	31.8%	12.1%
49	Rogers State University	0.0%	0.0%	33.3%	11.1%
47	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	0.0%	0.0%	28.6%	9.5%
54	Clemson University	0.0%	0.0%	25.0%	8.3%
42	University of Michigan-Dearborn	20.0%	0.0%	0.0%	6.7%
48	Drexel University (LeBow)	0.0%	0.0%	9.1%	3.0%