OMBA Ranking 2026: Undergrad GPA, Work Experience & Women At Top Online MBA Programs

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In traditional, full-time MBA programs attracting more women to the ranks has been an oft-stated, (and often elusive) goal of top programs.

Parity is more common in online programs, where working professionals keep their jobs, study at home, and have more flexibility to balance work, family, and schoolwork according to their schedules. Fair or not, this format helps attract more working mothers who are still more likely to shoulder the lion’s share of childcare duties.

While this metric doesn’t factor in our ranking methodology, we ask schools to provide it.

In our 2026 ranking of online MBA programs, 14 of 61 ranked schools enrolled as many or more women than they did men. Overall, schools enrolled an average of 43.2% of women in their incoming cohorts.

Women At P&Q Ranked OMBAS
Rank	School	Percent Women
1	Indiana University (Kelley)	38.0%
2	University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal)	37.0%
3	University of Michigan (Ross)	25.0%
4	University of Washington (Foster)	34.0%
5	Hofstra University (Zarb)	72.0%
6	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	23.4%
7	Auburn University (Harbert)	33.0%
8	University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business	36.0%
9	Jack Welch Management Institute	53.0%
10	University of Florida (Warrington)	34.0%
11	Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)	54.0%
12	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	26.0%
13	University of Utah (Eccles)	33.0%
14	Wake Forest University	45.0%
15	Villanova University	42.4%
16	Lehigh University	38.5%
17	Fairfield University (Dolan)	43.0%
18	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	53.4%
19	Bryant University	43.0%
20	Rice University (Jones)	31.0%
21	University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	46.0%
22	North Carolina State University (Poole)	41.0%
23	Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst)	46.0%
24	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	49.0%
25	University of Connecticut	29.0%
26	University of Iowa (Tippie)	33.0%
27	University of South Florida (Muma)	46.0%
28	Clemson University	15.0%
29	University of Denver (Daniels)	37.0%
30	Texas Tech University (Rawls)	47.0%
31	University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	42.4%
32	University of Delaware (Lerner)	49.0%
33	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	32.8%
34	Baylor University (Hankamer)	41.3%
35	Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	60.0%
36	University of Maryland (Smith)	40.0%
37	Syracuse University (Whitman)	34.0%
38	William & Mary (Mason)	46.0%
39	University of Michigan-Dearborn	43.0%
40	San Jose State University (Lucas)	53.0%
41	American University (Kogod)	48.0%
42	Longwood University	50.2%
43	Ohio University	48.5%
44	Rogers State University	51.3%
45	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	44.4%
46	University of Massachusetts Lowell (Manning)	40.0%
47	University of California-Davis	51.0%
48	Mississippi State University	48.0%
49	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	44.0%
50	Creighton University (Heider)	46.0%
51	Florida International University	60.0%
52	Temple University (Fox)	49.2%
53	SUNY Oswego	46.0%
54	Drexel University (LeBow)	53.0%
55	University of Missouri (Trulaske)	34.0%
56	George Mason University (Costello)	52.0%
57	Seattle University (Albers)	42.0%
58	University of Houston (Bauer)	43.0%
59	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Rollins)	57.1%
60	Kennesaw State University (Coles)	49.4%
61	University of North Texas (Ryan)	52.0%

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