INDUSTRY CHANGERS
For industry pivoters, no school had a higher percentage of alumni jump to a new industry than Bryant University where 60% of 2024 alumni pivoted.
Half of graduates from University of South Florida Muma College of Business changed industries.
Forty percent or more of graduates changed industries at six of the 57 OMBA programs we ranked.
Did you change industries as a result of the program? |
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Question Rank |
School |
Percent ‘Yes’ |
| 1 | Bryant University | 60.0% |
| 2 | University of South Florida (Muma) | 50.0% |
| 3 | University of Michigan (Ross) | 43.8% |
| 4 | SUNY Oswego | 42.9% |
| 5 | San Jose State University (Lucas) | 41.7% |
| 6 | Santa Clara University (Leavey) | 40.0% |
| 7 | Seattle University (Albers) | 33.3% |
| 7 | University of North Texas (Ryan) | 33.3% |
| 7 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | 33.3% |
| 10 | University of Missouri (Trulaske) | 27.3% |
| 11 | University of Florida (Warrington) | 26.0% |
| 12 | Kennesaw State University (Coles) | 25.0% |
| 12 | Pepperdine University (Graziadio) | 25.0% |
| 12 | University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | 25.0% |
| 15 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | 23.7% |
| 16 | American University (Kogod) | 23.5% |
| 17 | Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | 23.1% |
| 18 | George Mason University (Costello) | 22.2% |
| 18 | Texas Tech (Rawls) | 22.2% |
| 18 | University of Maryland (Smith) | 22.2% |
| 21 | Jack Welch Management Institute | 21.1% |
| 22 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 20.4% |
| 23 | Auburn University (Harbert) | 20.0% |
| 24 | University of Washington (Foster) | 19.2% |
| 25 | North Carolina State University (Poole) | 18.2% |
| 25 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 18.2% |
| 27 | Creighton University (Heider) | 16.7% |
| 27 | Wake Forest University | 16.7% |
| 29 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 16.4% |
| 30 | Florida International University | 16.0% |
| 31 | University of California, Davis | 15.8% |
| 32 | University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 15.3% |
| 33 | University of Connecticut School of Business | 14.3% |
| 33 | University of Iowa (Tippie) | 14.3% |
| 33 | Villanova University | 14.3% |
| 36 | Baylor University (Hankamer) | 13.3% |
| 36 | Fairfield University (Dolan) | 13.3% |
| 38 | University of Utah (Eccles) | 12.5% |
| 39 | Indiana University (Kelley) | 12.4% |
| 40 | Rice University (Jones) | 11.8% |
| 41 | Lehigh University | 11.1% |
| 41 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | 11.1% |
| 41 | University of Denver (Daniels) | 11.1% |
| 41 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) | 11.1% |
| 41 | William & Mary (Mason) | 11.1% |
| 46 | University of Cincinnati (Lindner) | 9.5% |
| 47 | Louisiana State University (Ourso) | 8.3% |
| 48 | Ohio University | 5.3% |
| 49 | Clemson University | 0.0% |
| 49 | Drexel University (LeBow) | 0.0% |
| 49 | Hofstra University (Zarb) | 0.0% |
| 49 | Rogers State University | 0.0% |
| 49 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | 0.0% |
| 49 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | 0.0% |
| 49 | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | 0.0% |
| 49 | University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium | 0.0% |
| 49 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 0.0% |
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