Poets&Quants’ Ranking Of The Best Online MBA Programs Of 2026

by: Kristy Bleizeffer on December 23, 2025 | 275 Views

University of Texas at Dallas’ Naveen Jindal School of Management online MBA students.

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 2025 graduates, averaged with responses of the two previous classes.

Academic experience is based on the average score of 15 one-to-ten scaled questions and the average rating of three other questions looking at student clubs and organizations, international experience, and completing a consulting project

Get more data in our academic experience category in our data dump story here.

Academic Experience
Academic Ex Rank
School
Academic Ex Total
2026 Rank
1 University of Washington (Foster) 100.0 4
2 Hofstra University (Zarb) 98.7 5
3 Indiana University (Kelley) 96.7 1
4 University of Michigan (Ross) 96.0 3
5 Wake Forest University 94.1 14
6 Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) 94.0 11
7 University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) 92.1 2
8 University of Utah (Eccles) 91.7 13
9 Lehigh University 89.6 16
10 University of Denver (Daniels) 88.9 29
11 Auburn University (Harbert) 88.4 7
12 University of Florida (Warrington) 88.1 10
13 University of Connecticut 88.0 25
14 Villanova University 87.1 15
15 Jack Welch Management Institute 86.8 9
16 University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 86.1 12
17 Syracuse University (Whitman) 85.9 37
18 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 85.3 6
19 North Carolina State University (Poole) 85.1 22
20 University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business 84.9 8
21 Rice University (Jones) 83.4 20
22 American University (Kogod) 82.8 41
23 University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium 82.6 18
24 University of Iowa (Tippie) 82.2 26
25 Ohio University 81.5 43
26 University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) 80.6 21
27 William & Mary (Mason) 80.5 38
28 University of South Florida (Muma) 80.3 27
29 University of Michigan-Dearborn 79.6 39
30 MIssissippi State University 79.3 48
31 Fairfield University (Dolan) 78.7 17
32 Santa Clara University (Leavey) 77.2 24
33 Baylor University (Hankamer) 77.2 34
34 Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) 77.1 23
35 Texas Tech University (Rawls) 75.5 30
36 Clemson University 74.1 28
37 University of Maryland (Smith) 73.7 36
38 Pepperdine University (Graziadio) 73.4 35
39 Florida International University 72.7 51
40 Longwood University 72.3 42
41 University of Cincinnati (Lindner) 72.3 31
42 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 72.0 33
43 University of California-Davis 71.7 47
44 Louisiana State University (Ourso) 71.6 49
45 Southern Methodist University (Cox) 71.3 45
46 University of Delaware (Lerner) 71.0 32
47 Drexel University (LeBow) 70.5 54
48 Temple University (Fox) 70.1 52
49 San Jose State University (Lucas) 69.5 40
50 Bryant University 68.4 19
51 Rogers State University 67.2 44
52 Creighton University (Heider) 66.0 50
53 SUNY Oswego 62.9 53
54 University of Massachusetts Lowell (Manning) 62.4 46
55 George Mason University (Costello) 52.8 56
56 University of Missouri (Trulaske) 51.6 55
57 Seattle University (Albers) 46.4 57
58 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Rollins) 45.2 59
59 University of Houston (Bauer) 44.3 58
60 Kennesaw State University (Coles) 28.5 60
61 University of North Texas (Ryan) 6.7 61

Full Ranking Results:

PAGE 4: Full Ranking: The Best Online MBA Programs of 2026
PAGE 5: How Schools Ranked on Admissions Standards
PAGE 6: How Schools Ranked on Career Impact
PAGE 7: How Schools Ranked on Academic Experience

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