P&Q’s Must Reads: Poets&Quants’ Ranking Of The Best Online MBA Programs Of 2026

I’m your host, Kristy Bleizeffer, and I’ll be highlighting the most important P&Q stories you might have missed. So, let’s get to it. 

No. 1: Poets&Quants’ Ranking Of The Best Online MBA Programs Of 2026

Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business has done it again. The Kelley Direct Online MBA returns to the very top of Poets&Quants’ ranking of the best online MBA programs in the U.S. – a position Kelley knows well. This marks the program’s fourth time leading our ranking, after first claiming the top spot in 2021 and repeating the feat in both 2023 and 2024.

For 2026, we ranked 61 top US online MBA programs on their admission standards, early career outcomes, and the learning experience as rated by 2025 graduates. 

You’ll find the full ranking – along with a host of data support stories and insights – in our rankings tab.

No. 2: 2025 Business School Rankings: The Complete Collection

In this guide, you’ll find all of P&Q’s ranking coverage for business schools, MBA programs, online MBAs, and much more. 

Shopping for a degree program that matches your career goals, pocketbook, and learning style, is a daunting task with a plethora of data to consider. Any single ranking should be but one data point, never taken on its own. 

That’s where this guide can help. You’ll find more than 140 ranking and analysis stories on a host of variables to cross-reference against your target programs. The guide is up now, and you’ll find it in our trending tab.

No. 3: Deans’ 2026 Resolutions: B-School Leaders On How The New Year Will Bring New Tests For B-Schools

Every year at this time, Poets&Quants asks leaders from the world’s top business schools to put a stake in the ground for the year ahead – a resolution that signals what they think is changing fastest, what still matters most, and what management education should be optimizing for now. 

For 2026, the question for many deans is no longer whether business education must adapt, but how leaders should be formed when certainty is scarce and scrutiny is high.

Read dean resolutions from UC Berkeley to ESCP, Cornell Johnson, to  Cambridge Judge now, from our homepage.

No. 4: Our Weekly Round Up of  News You Can Use

No matter where you are in your MBA journey, we bring several helpful stories for you this week.

First up: 2026 MBA Interview Questions: A School-By-School List.  Just in time for interview season, we gathered the most likely admission interview questions from the top program. Find it on our homepage. 

Next: The 7 Biggest Mistakes That Sink MBA Applications (And How to Avoid Them). In this story, up on our homepage, A former INSEAD admissions director outlines seven critical MBA application missteps that create doubt in admissions readers. 

Finally: Five Things Indian Applicants Must Know To Get Into A Top U.S. MBA Program. Find this valuable advice in our admissions hub.

And, that’s it for this week’s Must Reads recap. 

I also want to alert school seekers to our events tab from our main menu. There, you’ll find all the upcoming admissions events for a range of degrees and programs including full-time and online MBAs, specialized masters, entrepreneurship and more. Registration is free.

Again, I’m Kristy Bleizeffer, and you can join me next week, right here, for a recap of what’s important in the world of business education. Thanks for listening.

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