2025 Online MBA Ranking: How Graduates Rated The Degree’s Career Impact

MEETING CAREER GOALS

Career impact, of course, goes beyond a promotion or a raise. An MBA can also result in increased self-confidence on the job, greater respect and admiration from colleagues, or a change that leads to a more fulfilling job.

That’s why we also ask graduates of online MBA programs if they achieved their primary goal of getting the degree, whatever that may be.

On a 10-point scale, alumni at University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) reported the highest rating for achieving their primary career-related reason for obtaining an online MBA degree at a perfect 10. Alumni from five other programs rated their programs at 9.8.

To what extent did you achieve your PRIMARY reason for obtaining an online MBA degree?
Question Rank	School	Primary Reason
1	University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal)	10.0
2	Bryant University	9.8
2	North Carolina State University (Poole)	9.8
2	University of Maryland (Smith)	9.8
2	University of Michigan-Dearborn	9.8
2	University of Utah (Eccles)	9.8
7	Clemson University	9.5
7	University of Michigan (Ross)	9.5
7	University of Southern California (Marshall)	9.5
7	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	9.5
11	Auburn University (Harbert)	9.4
11	Lehigh University	9.4
11	Rice University (Jones)	9.4
11	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	9.4
11	William & Mary (Mason)	9.4
16	Hofstra University (Zarb)	9.3
16	Indiana University (Kelley)	9.3
16	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	9.3
16	University of Connecticut School of Business	9.3
16	University of Washington (Foster)	9.3
16	Villanova University	9.3
22	University of Florida (Warrington)	9.2
23	Jack Welch Management Institute	9.1
23	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	9.1
23	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	9.1
23	University of South Florida (Muma)	9.1
27	Rogers State University	9.0
28	American University (Kogod)	8.9
28	Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst)	8.9
28	Syracuse University (Whitman)	8.9
28	University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	8.9
32	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	8.7
32	Florida International University	8.7
32	George Mason University (Costello)	8.7
32	University of California, Davis	8.7
32	University of Iowa (Tippie)	8.7
37	SUNY Oswego	8.6
37	University of Delaware (Lerner)	8.6
37	University of Missouri (Trulaske)	8.6
40	Fairfield University (Dolan)	8.4
40	Kennesaw State University (Coles)	8.4
40	University of Denver (Daniels)	8.4
43	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	8.3
44	Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	8.0
44	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	8.0
46	Baylor University (Hankamer)	7.8
46	Creighton University (Heider)	7.8
46	Drexel University (LeBow)	7.8
46	University of North Texas (Ryan)	7.8
46	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	7.8
46	Wake Forest University	7.8
52	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	7.6
52	San Jose State University (Lucas)	7.6
52	Texas Tech (Rawls)	7.6
52	University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	7.6
56	Ohio University	7.3
57	Seattle University (Albers)	4.8

Similarly, we asked alumni whether they achieved their secondary career-related reason for pursuing an online MBA. Here, North Carolina State University (Poole) alumni rated their school the highest at 10 while Bryant University followed with 9.8.

To what extent did you achieve your SECONDARY reason for obtaining an online MBA?
Question Rank	School	Secondary Reason
1	North Carolina State University (Poole)	10.0
2	Bryant University	9.8
3	University of Utah (Eccles)	9.5
4	Rice University (Jones)	9.4
5	Lehigh University	9.3
5	University of Michigan (Ross)	9.3
5	University of Michigan-Dearborn	9.3
5	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	9.3
9	University of South Florida (Muma)	9.2
10	Hofstra University (Zarb)	9.1
10	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	9.1
10	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	9.1
10	University of Connecticut School of Business	9.1
10	University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal)	9.1
15	Indiana University (Kelley)	9.0
15	University of Southern California (Marshall)	9.0
15	University of Washington (Foster)	9.0
18	American University (Kogod)	8.9
18	Auburn University (Harbert)	8.9
18	Jack Welch Management Institute	8.9
18	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	8.9
18	William & Mary (Mason)	8.9
23	University of Maryland (Smith)	8.8
24	Syracuse University (Whitman)	8.7
24	University of Delaware (Lerner)	8.7
26	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	8.6
26	Clemson University	8.6
26	Fairfield University (Dolan)	8.6
26	Villanova University	8.6
30	University of Iowa (Tippie)	8.5
30	University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	8.5
30	University of Missouri (Trulaske)	8.5
33	Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst)	8.4
33	Kennesaw State University (Coles)	8.4
33	University of Denver (Daniels)	8.4
36	Creighton University (Heider)	8.3
36	SUNY Oswego	8.3
36	University of North Texas (Ryan)	8.3
39	University of California, Davis	8.2
39	University of Florida (Warrington)	8.2
41	Florida International University	8.1
41	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	8.1
41	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	8.1
44	Ohio University	8.0
44	Texas Tech (Rawls)	8.0
46	Wake Forest University	7.8
47	Drexel University (LeBow)	7.7
47	Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	7.7
49	San Jose State University (Lucas)	7.5
50	Baylor University (Hankamer)	7.4
51	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	7.2
52	University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	7.0
52	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	7.0
54	George Mason University (Costello)	6.6
55	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	6.3
56	Seattle University (Albers)	6.2
57	Rogers State University	5.5

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