JOB FUNCTION CHANGERS
We also asked 2024 graduates if their online MBA degrees directly led them to changing job functions. Those using the degree to switch functions fell to 44.29% from 47% last year.
Graduates of the Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business reported the highest rate of job function changes at 90%. Bryant University came next with 75% of 2024 graduates reporting changing job functions.
Of the 57 schools from which we collected data, 18 had at least 50% of their alumni report that they used the degree to change roles.
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Question Rank |
School |
Percent ‘Yes’ |
| 1 | Santa Clara University (Leavey) | 90.0% |
| 2 | Bryant University | 80.0% |
| 3 | Rice University (Jones) | 76.5% |
| 4 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 75.0% |
| 5 | University of South Florida (Muma) | 66.7% |
| 6 | University of Michigan (Ross) | 62.5% |
| 6 | University of Utah (Eccles) | 62.5% |
| 8 | San Jose State University (Lucas) | 58.3% |
| 9 | Pepperdine University (Graziadio) | 57.5% |
| 10 | SUNY Oswego | 57.1% |
| 11 | University of Florida (Warrington) | 56.0% |
| 12 | Jack Welch Management Institute | 55.6% |
| 12 | University of Denver (Daniels) | 55.6% |
| 12 | University of Maryland (Smith) | 55.6% |
| 12 | William & Mary (Mason) | 55.6% |
| 16 | American University (Kogod) | 52.9% |
| 17 | University of California, Davis | 52.6% |
| 18 | Seattle University (Albers) | 50.0% |
| 18 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | 50.0% |
| 18 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | 50.0% |
| 18 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 50.0% |
| 18 | University of North Texas (Ryan) | 50.0% |
| 18 | University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | 50.0% |
| 18 | Wake Forest University | 50.0% |
| 25 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) | 47.2% |
| 26 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 45.5% |
| 26 | University of Missouri (Trulaske) | 45.5% |
| 28 | Texas Tech (Rawls) | 44.4% |
| 28 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | 44.4% |
| 30 | University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium | 43.8% |
| 31 | Kennesaw State University (Coles) | 42.9% |
| 31 | University of Cincinnati (Lindner) | 42.9% |
| 33 | Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | 42.3% |
| 34 | Creighton University (Heider) | 41.7% |
| 35 | Auburn University (Harbert) | 40.0% |
| 35 | Baylor University (Hankamer) | 40.0% |
| 37 | Lehigh University | 38.9% |
| 38 | University of Iowa (Tippie) | 37.7% |
| 39 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 36.7% |
| 40 | Indiana University (Kelley) | 36.1% |
| 41 | University of Washington (Foster) | 34.6% |
| 42 | George Mason University (Costello) | 33.3% |
| 42 | Rogers State University | 33.3% |
| 44 | Florida International University | 32.0% |
| 45 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | 31.8% |
| 46 | University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 30.5% |
| 47 | Hofstra University (Zarb) | 28.6% |
| 47 | University of Connecticut School of Business | 28.6% |
| 47 | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | 28.6% |
| 50 | North Carolina State University (Poole) | 27.3% |
| 51 | Ohio University | 26.3% |
| 52 | Clemson University | 25.0% |
| 52 | Louisiana State University (Ourso) | 25.0% |
| 54 | Villanova University | 21.4% |
| 55 | Fairfield University (Dolan) | 20.0% |
| 56 | Drexel University (LeBow) | 9.1% |
| 57 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | 0.0% |
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