Poets&Quants | RANKING: Poets&Quants' Best Online MBA Programs For 2024

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

University of Washington (Foster) won the academic experience category based on alumni data from the past three years.

Academic experience is based on the average score of 15 one-to-ten scaled questions (80%) and the average rating of two other questions looking at student clubs and organizations and completing a consulting project (20%).

Foster is followed by Indiana University (Kelley) and William & Mary (Mason). Get more data in our academic experience category in our data dump story: How Online MBA Grads Rated Their Programs. Below is the Academic Experience rank (accounting for 33% of the overall rank) for all 51 schools.

Ranking Online MBA on Academic Experience
Academic Exp. Rank	School	Academic Exp. Total	2024 Overall Rank
1	University of Washington (Foster)	100.00	2
2	Indiana University (Kelley)	93.20	1
3	William & Mary (Mason)	92.74	22
4	Lehigh University	92.13	16
5	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	91.88	20
6	Baylor University (Hankamer)	90.90	13
7	University of Southern California (Marshall)	90.89	9
8	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	90.54	7
9	Hofstra University (Zarb)	90.41	18
10	University of Denver (Daniels)	89.98	30
11	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	89.54	11
12	Auburn University (Harbert)	88.00	10
13	Rice University (Jones)	86.97	6
14	University of Michigan (Ross)	86.85	4
15	Syracuse University (Whitman)	86.68	29
16	Jack Welch Management Institute	86.58	8
17	University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg)	85.45	12
18	University of Florida (Warrington)	85.30	15
19	Ohio University	83.70	38
20	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	83.51	5
21	University of Nebraska	82.26	25
22	Villanova University	82.05	26
23	North Carolina State University (Jenkins)	81.77	27
24	University of California, Davis	81.45	19
25	University of Utah (Eccles)	81.09	17
26	University of South Florida (Muma)	79.82	23
27	University of Iowa (Tippie)	79.72	34
28	Creighton University (Heider)	77.54	40
29	University of Texas at Dallas	77.30	3
30	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	77.24	14
31	Washington State University	76.65	31
32	Bowling Green	74.06	33
33	Pepperdine University (Graziadio)	72.46	39
34	Florida International University	69.82	36
35	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	68.19	21
36	Bryant University	64.25	24
37	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	63.03	37
38	University of Michigan-Dearborn	60.23	28
39	American University (Kogod)	59.28	48
40	San Jose State University (Lucas)	57.21	44
41	University of Maryland (Smith)	57.11	32
42	University of Delaware (Lerner)	55.87	46
43	Drexel University	55.68	43
44	University of Cincinnati (Lindner)	55.59	35
45	SUNY Oswego	50.57	45
46	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	50.33	41
47	Rogers State University	49.57	42
48	Kennesaw State University	47.27	47
49	Louisiana State University (Ourso)	14.81	49
50	University of North Texas	0.94	50
51	Clemson University	0.00	51