William & Mary’s Mason School already has an online MBA and one specialized master’s online but plans much more. Photo courtesy of Mason School

Santa Clara also won the career outcomes category, based on alumni survey data. Career outcomes is based on the average percentage of graduates to report earning a promotion and/or salary increase (40%), the average rating alumni gave their schools career services and advising office (20%), average percentage of graduates to say the program helped them reach their primary career goal (20%), the average percentage of graduates to say the program helped them reach their secondary career goal (10%), and the ratings given to their ability to build a professional network through the online MBA program (5%) and the quality of that network (5%).

After Santa Clara, Carnegie Mellon placed second overall in the category. USC, William & Mary, and Washington’s Foster School of Business rounded out the top five, respectfully.

Ranking Online MBA Career Outcomes

Career Outcomes Rank	School	Career Outcomes Total
1	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	100.00
2	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	96.69
3	University of Southern California	92.74
4	College of William & Mary (Mason)	86.42
5	University of Washington (Foster)	84.26
6	Rice University (Jones)	82.57
7	North Carolina State University (Poole)	79.91
8	University of Maryland (Smith)	79.63
9	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	78.97
10	Indiana University (Kelley)	76.96
11	Baylor University (Hankamer)	76.95
12	Auburn University (Harbert)	71.30
13	University of Denver (Daniels)	65.37
14	University of North Texas (Brint Ryan)	65.35
15	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	63.70
16	Lehigh University	63.01
17	Bryant University	61.57
18	Pepperdine University (Graziado)	60.61
19	University of Florida (Warrington)	59.28
20	University of Utah (Eccles)	59.27
21	Jack Welch Management Institute	58.88
22	Creighton University (Heider)	58.07
23	University of Tennessee-Chattanooga	58.01
24	Arizona State University (W. P. Carey)	57.87
25	Syracuse University (Whitman)	56.07
26	American University (Kogod)	55.58
27	University of Kansas	55.41
28	University of Massachusetts (Isenberg)	53.32
29	Villanova University	52.44
30	University of North Dakota (Nistler)	51.72
31	Drexel University (LeBow)	49.00
32	Washington State University (Carson)	46.09
33	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	43.80
34	Florida International University	42.69
35	George Washingon University	41.82
36	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	40.32
37	Temple University (Fox)	40.20
38	University of Arizona (Eller)	39.30
39	Hofstra University (Zarb)	38.95
40	SUNY Oswego	37.78
41	Ohio University	37.74
42	University of South Florida (Muma)	37.55
43	University of Wisconsin (Consortium)	36.83
44	Kennesaw State	36.24
45	University of Massachusetts-Lowell (Manning)	30.22
46	University of Delaware (Lerner)	29.56
47	Oklahoma State University (Watson)	23.15
48	University of Texas-Dallas (Jindal)	21.67
49	University of Michigan-Dearborn	20.97
50	Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim)	20.43
51	Rogers State University	6.44
52	University of Cincinnati (Linder)	0.00

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