How Online MBA 2025 Graduates Rated Their Program’s Learning Experience

WOULD YOU RECOMMEND?

Perhaps the most important question we ask on the alumni survey is the likelihood they would recommend their online MBA program to others. At the end of the day – after spending tens of thousands of dollars and two or more years of their lives – it is the ultimate testament to program quality.

Across the board, all the ranked schools did well on this measure with 39 separate programs receiving an alumni average score of 9 or above on a ten-point scale, with ten reflecting the strongest recommendation from graduates.

Alumni at four schools gave their programs a perfect 10: Hofstra University (Zarb), North Carolina State University (Poole), Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst), and Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead). In other words, all alumni surveyed said they would be very likely to recommend the program to friends, family or colleagues.

Would you recommend the business program to a colleague, friend, or relative?
Question Rank	School	Would Recommend
1	Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst)	10.0
1	Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)	10.0
1	Hofstra University (Zarb)	10.0
1	University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal)	10.0
5	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	9.9
5	Wake Forest University	9.9
7	Bryant University	9.8
7	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	9.8
7	University of Utah (Eccles)	9.8
10	University of Michigan (Ross)	9.7
11	Indiana University (Kelley)	9.6
11	MIssissippi State University	9.6
11	University of Washington (Foster)	9.6
14	Fairfield University (Dolan)	9.5
15	Auburn University (Harbert)	9.4
15	Baylor University (Hankamer)	9.4
15	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	9.4
15	Lehigh University	9.4
15	Longwood University	9.4
15	University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	9.4
15	University of Michigan-Dearborn	9.4
22	Kennesaw State University (Coles)	9.3
22	University of Delaware (Lerner)	9.3
22	University of Florida (Warrington)	9.3
22	University of Iowa (Tippie)	9.3
22	University of Maryland (Smith)	9.3
27	George Mason University (Costello)	9.2
27	Ohio University	9.2
27	University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	9.2
27	University of Connecticut	9.2
27	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	9.2
27	VIllanova University	9.2
33	Jack Welch Management Institute	9.1
34	American University (Kogod)	9.0
34	Rogers State University	9.0
34	Syracuse University (Whitman)	9.0
34	University of Denver (Daniels)	9.0
34	University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business	9.0
34	William & Mary (Mason)	9.0
40	North Carolina State University (Poole)	8.9
41	Clemson University	8.8
41	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	8.8
41	University of Missouri (Trulaske)	8.8
41	University of South Florida (Muma)	8.8
45	Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	8.7
45	Rice University (Jones)	8.7
45	University of North Texas (Ryan)	8.7
48	Seattle University (Albers)	8.6
48	Temple University (Fox)	8.6
48	Texas Tech University (Rawls)	8.6
51	Creighton University (Heider)	8.4
51	Drexel University (LeBow)	8.4
51	San Jose State University (Lucas)	8.4
51	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	8.4
51	University of Massachusetts Lowell (Manning)	8.4
51	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Rollins)	8.4
57	Florida International University	8.2
57	SUNY Oswego	8.2
59	University of Houston (Bauer)	8.0
60	University of California-Davis	7.9
61	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	7.8

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WOULD YOU RECOMMEND?

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