ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
The Academic Experience category is used to measure the learning experience students can expect from an online MBA program. Data is collected through the alumni survey sent to the most recent graduates, averaged with responses of the two previous classes.
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%).
Get more data from our Academic Experience category here.
Below is the Academic Experience rank (accounting for 33% of the overall rank) for all 57 schools.
Ranking Online MBA on Academic Experience |
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Academic Ex. Rank |
School |
Academic Ex. Total |
2025 Overall Rank |
| 1 | Hofstra University (Zarb) | 100.0000 | 9 |
| 2 | University of Washington (Foster) | 99.3804 | 4 |
| 3 | Indiana University (Kelley) | 96.5098 | 2 |
| 4 | University of Utah (Eccles) | 94.1271 | 18 |
| 5 | Rice University (Jones) | 93.5229 | 5 |
| 6 | University of Michigan (Ross) | 93.1367 | 2 |
| 7 | North Carolina State University (Poole) | 92.6483 | 29 |
| 8 | Jack Welch Management Institute | 92.3276 | 8 |
| 9 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | 92.2273 | 21 |
| 10 | William & Mary (Mason) | 92.0532 | 19 |
| 11 | Auburn University (Harbert) | 91.8827 | 11 |
| 12 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 91.5204 | 14 |
| 13 | Wake Forest University | 90.6468 | 25 |
| 14 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | 89.8858 | 30 |
| 15 | University of Florida (Warrington) | 89.8116 | 10 |
| 16 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | 89.5667 | 6 |
| 17 | Villanova University | 89.4217 | 28 |
| 18 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 89.2739 | 7 |
| 19 | University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | 89.1311 | 1 |
| 20 | University of Denver (Daniels) | 88.9798 | 20 |
| 21 | Lehigh University | 88.2694 | 13 |
| 22 | Santa Clara University (Leavey) | 88.0780 | 12 |
| 23 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) | 88.0655 | 15 |
| 24 | University of Iowa (Tippie) | 87.7177 | 27 |
| 25 | University of South Florida (Muma) | 87.1493 | 17 |
| 26 | University of Connecticut School of Business | 87.1106 | 33 |
| 27 | Creighton University (Heider) | 86.5144 | 40 |
| 28 | Baylor University (Hankamer) | 84.5974 | 38 |
| 29 | University of California, Davis | 84.3311 | 22 |
| 30 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 82.2860 | 25 |
| 31 | Florida International University | 79.9310 | 31 |
| 32 | Ohio University | 79.7653 | 44 |
| 33 | Pepperdine University (Graziadio) | 79.0865 | 45 |
| 34 | University of Maryland (Smith) | 78.4683 | 32 |
| 35 | Fairfield University (Dolan) | 78.4424 | 23 |
| 36 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | 77.1088 | 41 |
| 37 | Texas Tech (Rawls) | 76.6702 | 35 |
| 38 | Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | 76.1688 | 36 |
| 39 | American University (Kogod) | 76.1652 | 50 |
| 40 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 75.2368 | 24 |
| 41 | University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 73.5229 | 43 |
| 42 | Drexel University (LeBow) | 73.2830 | 48 |
| 43 | San Jose State University (Lucas) | 73.2585 | 34 |
| 44 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | 71.5011 | 42 |
| 45 | University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium | 69.9970 | 37 |
| 46 | University of Cincinnati (Lindner) | 66.4005 | 38 |
| 47 | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | 66.3784 | 47 |
| 48 | Bryant University | 65.0280 | 16 |
| 49 | Kennesaw State University (Coles) | 61.7826 | 46 |
| 50 | University of Missouri (Trulaske) | 58.4273 | 53 |
| 51 | Rogers State University | 57.1635 | 49 |
| 52 | SUNY Oswego | 56.7355 | 51 |
| 53 | George Mason University (Costello) | 52.3254 | 52 |
| 54 | Louisiana State University (Ourso) | 37.8826 | 55 |
| 55 | Clemson University | 37.2259 | 54 |
| 56 | Seattle University (Albers) | 31.8027 | 56 |
| 57 | University of North Texas (Ryan) | 11.2804 | 57 |
