OMBA Ranking 2026: 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 Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business where 40% of responding 2025 alumni pivoted.

Overall, a third or more of survey respondents changed industries at six of the 61 programs.

Did you change industries as a result of the program?
Question Rank	School	Percent ‘Yes’	2026 Overall Rank
1	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	40.00%	24
2	Seattle University (Albers)	36.36%	57
3	Bryant University	33.33%	19
3	University of Houston (Bauer)	33.33%	58
3	University of Michigan (Ross)	33.33%	3
3	University of Utah (Eccles)	33.33%	13
7	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	30.77%	45
8	Creighton University (Heider)	28.57%	50
8	Rice University (Jones)	28.57%	20
8	University of Denver (Daniels)	28.57%	29
8	Wake Forest University	28.57%	14
12	Indiana University (Kelley)	27.27%	1
13	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	25.00%	6
13	Fairfield University (Dolan)	25.00%	17
13	University of California-Davis	25.00%	47
13	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	25.00%	12
17	University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business	23.53%	8
18	Florida International University	23.08%	51
19	San Jose State University (Lucas)	20.00%	40
19	Texas Tech University (Rawls)	20.00%	30
21	Syracuse University (Whitman)	19.23%	37
22	University of Massachusetts Lowell (Manning)	18.64%	46
23	Ohio University	17.65%	43
23	University of North Texas (Ryan)	17.65%	61
25	Jack Welch Management Institute	17.44%	9
26	Drexel University (LeBow)	16.67%	54
26	George Mason University (Costello)	16.67%	56
26	Rogers State University	16.67%	44
26	University of Connecticut	16.67%	25
30	University of Florida (Warrington)	16.36%	10
31	Longwood University	15.56%	42
32	Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	15.38%	35
33	Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst)	15.00%	23
34	University of Washington (Foster)	14.58%	4
35	University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal)	14.29%	2
36	University of Iowa (Tippie)	12.77%	26
37	Baylor University (Hankamer)	12.00%	34
38	Villanova University	11.76%	15
38	William & Mary (Mason)	11.76%	38
40	Lehigh University	11.11%	16
41	University of Maryland (Smith)	10.00%	36
41	University of South Florida (Muma)	10.00%	27
43	North Carolina State University (Poole)	9.09%	22
43	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	9.09%	18
45	Clemson University	8.33%	28
45	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	8.33%	33
47	University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	7.41%	21
48	Auburn University (Harbert)	6.67%	7
48	MIssissippi State University	6.67%	48
50	American University (Kogod)	0.00%	41
50	Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)	0.00%	11
50	Hofstra University (Zarb)	0.00%	5
50	Kennesaw State University (Coles)	0.00%	60
50	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	0.00%	49
50	SUNY Oswego	0.00%	53
50	Temple University (Fox)	0.00%	52
50	University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	0.00%	31
50	University of Delaware (Lerner)	0.00%	32
50	University of Michigan-Dearborn	0.00%	39
50	University of Missouri (Trulaske)	0.00%	55
50	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Rollins)	0.00%	59

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INDUSTRY CHANGERS

Did you change industries as a result of the program?

Question Rank

School

Percent ‘Yes’

2026 Overall Rank