The Best Online MBA Programs Of 2019

Call them the party crashers. In the second annual Poets&Quants ranking of the best online MBA programs, three universities surpassed last year’s dominant winner, Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business. And two of them came out of nowhere.

Online MBA Programs That Deliver Great Career Outcomes

You can pretty much divide the people who pursue MBA degrees into two categories: career switchers and career enhancers. The former want the most popular business credential on their resume to help switch industries, disciplines or geographies. The latter simply want to accelerate their existing careers, in the short term with their current employer and potentially in the long-term with another company.

Student Satisfaction In Best Online MBAs

What’s it really like to get an MBA degree online? We asked thousands of graduates from the best online MBA programs a series of questions that gets at all the key issues and challenges of doing a degree from your laptop. More than 1,200 online MBA alums from the past two years responded to our survey.

Best & Brightest Online MBAs: Class Of 2018

Kyrsten Sinema has always lived in a hurry. At 16, she served as her high school’s valedictorian. Two years later, she’d already graduated from college. Since then, Sinema has collected Masters, JD, and PhD degrees. When she wasn’t busy competing in triathlons and ultra-marathons, she worked as a social worker, criminal defense attorney, and college professor. She was even elected to the Arizona House of Representatives when she was just 28 – and rose to become the assistant minority leader within five years.

The Least (And Most) Expensive Top Online MBA Programs

A college degree is an investment. Traditionally and generally in the U.S. and around the globe, a college education opens doors to better career options and economic mobility. But that investment part, it can be a large. As part of our online MBA rankings story package, we organize the participating schools from the least expensive by total program cost (tuition and fees) to the most expensive. This year, the school with the lest expensive online MBA program is the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, which ranked 23rd in this year’s ranking. For Tennessee residents, the total program cost is $23,088. For out-of-state students, the price ticks up to $24,780.

Acceptance Rates, GMATs & More For The Top Online MBAs

The online MBA is still the new kid in town. You can see it in the data, because the numbers just aren’t as gaudy as you’ll find at full-time programs. Take acceptance rate, for instance. The lowest acceptance rate among the 35 schools in the 2019 Poets&Quants Online MBA Ranking was at the University of Texas-Dallas Jindal School of Management at 43%, up from 39% last year. The lowest acceptance rate in our most recent ranking of full-time programs? Stanford GSB’s notorious 5.7%.

Indiana & UNC Share First Place In U.S. News’ 2019 Online MBA Ranking

Two major business school players in the online MBA space have taken first place in U.S. News‘ newest 2019 ranking of the best online MBA programs. Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flager Business School share top honors on the 2019 list after the disappearance of Temple University’s online offering which had placed first for four consecutive years.

Online MBA Programs: What The Profs Think

Ask business school faculty who teach MBA students in traditional and virtual classrooms if they prefer one or the other and you get some interesting answers.

What’s it like to teach in an online MBA program? Is it as rewarding for a professor to work with students via the Internet versus a physical classroom? Is it more difficult to teach business in a virtual setting? How do you lead a case study discussion in an online class?

You’ll Never Believe How Much Money People Are Borrowing To Get An Online MBA

How much money would you be willing to borrow to get an online MBA degree?

You will, no doubt, be surprised to learn that many online students are borrowing $50,000 or more to get their degrees. In fact, at the high end, the levels of student debt online students are willing to assume are shocking.

How Harvard Business School Is Reimagining Online Education

Before Harvard Business School launched its digital learning initiative four-and-one-half years ago, the school looked inside its ranks for the ideal professor to head up the effort as faculty chair. It turned to one of its most popular strategy professors, Bharat N. Anand.