Ranking: U.S. News Online MBA Ranking For 2025

Indiana University’s Kelley Direct Online MBA tops the U.S. News 2025 ranking

2025 U.S. News Online MBA Ranking (1-25)

2025 Rank & School	2024 Rank	Y-O-Y Change	Enrolled Students	Acceptance Rate
1. Indiana (Kelley)	1	——–	1,729	29%
2. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	3	+1	675	58%
3. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	2	-1	232	80%
4. Florida (Warrington)	6	+2	788	60%
4. Washington (Foster)	4	——–	141	82%
6. Michigan (Ross)	16	+10	431	57%
7. Arizona State (Carey)	7	——–	720	82%
7. Arizona (Eller)	7	——–	713	75$
7. Kansas	9	+2	532	63%
7. Southern California (Marshall)	3	-4	350	47%
11. Oklahoma State (Spears)	16	+5	404	55%
11. Rochester Tech (Saunders)	9	-2	36	32%
11. Texas-Dallas (Jindal)	12	+1	425	46%
14. Hofstra (Zarb)	29	+15	142	92%
14. Maryland (Smith)	11	-3	343	78%
16. Ball State (Miller)	12	-4	285	96%
16. Massachusetts-Amherst (Isenberg)	12	-4	1,501	91%
16. South Florida (Muma)	22	+6	413	61%
16. Utah (Eccles)	12	-4	259	86%
20. Florida State	18	-2	464	61%
20. Kansas State	18	-2	151	98%
20. UC-Davis	42	+22	338	67%
20. Delaware (Lerner)	29	+9	345	79%
20. Wisconsin	12	-8	429	86%
25. Auburn (Harbert)	22	-3	694	72%
25. James Madison	18	-7	153	84%
25. Rice (Jones)	18	-7	400	71%
25. Iowa (Tippie)	29	-4	1,593	80%

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