2024 OMBA RANKING: Average GMAT, GRE, GPAs & Work Experience For The Top Online MBA Programs

AVERAGE YEARS OF WORK EXPERIENCE

Experience in the workforce can be an advantage in any MBA classroom where discussions and class projects invite students to learn from each other as well as the content. The OMBA classroom is no different.

Two schools this year reported average work experience for its 2023 alumni of 15 years: Bryant University and Jack Welch Management Institute. Two more schools had an average of 12 or more years in the workforce while five others posted 10 or more years.

For all schools, the average work experience was 8.5 years and the average age was 32.6. You can see the average age and average years of work experience for all 51 ranked schools in the table below.

Average Age Of Work Experience At Top OMBA Programs
2024 Rank	Name of school:	Avg. Age	Avg. Years of Work Experience
24	Bryant University	38	15
8	Jack Welch Management Institute	40	15
37	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	34	12.6
41	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	34	12
12	University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	37	11.3
18	Hofstra University (Zarb)	—	10.9
7	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	35	10.5
29	Syracuse University (Whitman)	34	10
21	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	34	10
9	University of Southern California (Marshall)	33	9.8
25	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	34	9.5
47	Kennesaw State University	35	9.25
13	Baylor University (Hankamer)	34	9
1	Indiana University (Kelley)	32	9
35	University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	31	9
30	University of Denver (Daniels)	33	9
17	University of Utah (Eccles)	33	9
31	Washington State University	33	9
43	Drexel University (LeBow)	34	8.86
6	Rice University (Jones)	35.4	8.7
20	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	34	8.7
34	University of Iowa (Tippie)	33	8.66
23	University of South Florida (Muma)	32	8.6
10	Auburn University (Harbert)	33	8.3
3	University of Texas at Dallas (Naveen Jindal)	30	8.22
27	North Carolina State University (Jenkins)	32	8.19
2	University of Washington (Foster)	33	8.1
16	Lehigh University	32	8.09
49	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	33	8
38	Ohio University	34	8
39	Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	32	8
42	Rogers State University	30	8
11	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	32	8
45	SUNY Oswego	30	8
19	University of California, Davis	40	8
14	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	30	8
26	Villanova University	30	8
4	University of Michigan (Ross)	31	7.8
15	University of Florida (Warrington)	30	7.6
46	University of Delaware (Lerner)	32	7.5
33	Bowling Green State University	32	7
51	Clemson University	32	7
28	University of Michigan-Dearborn	32	7
22	William & Mary (Mason)	34	7
40	Creighton University	30.54	6.97
5	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	31	6.9
36	Florida International University	28.5	6.4
32	University of Maryland (Smith)	30	5.2
44	San Jose State University (Lucas)	26	5
48	American University (Kogod)	30	4.76
50	University of North Texas (Ryan)	30	3