Top 30 Online MBA Programs

Our top online MBA rankings are meant to provide a guide for prospective students on the best online MBA programs available, based on both quality and value.

We performed a meta-analysis of some of the most reputable rankings of online MBA programs, which rank colleges based on education quality, interviews with graduates, job placement rates, salary increase, and a number of other factors.

As cost is a leading concern for many prospective students, we also included the cost of the program, and provided a normalized score for each school based on both the quality and relative value presented by the program.

In all, these rankings represent a bang-for-the-buck comparison of accredited online MBA programs and a guide for prospective students interested in earning their MBA.

Rank	College	Business School	Based In	Cost	Score (Normalized)
1	Indiana University	Kelley School of Business	Bloomington, IN	$61,200	100
2	University of Florida	Warrington College of Business	Gainsville, FL	$55,000	97
3	Arizona State University	WP Carey School of Business	Tempe, AZ	$57,500	84.7
4	Northeastern University	D'Amore McKim School of Business	Boston, MA	$71,650	74.2
5	University of Nebraska	College of Business	Lincoln, NE	$25,488	70.5
6	Carnegie Mellon	Tepper School of Business	Pittsburg, PA	$43,560	69.4
7	University of North Dakota	College of Business and Public Administration	Grand Forks, ND	$13,352	68.2
8	Temple University	Fox School of Business and Management	Philadelphia, PA	$62,208	67.4
9	University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill	Kenan-Flagler Business School	Chapel Hill, NC	$99,660	66.8
10	Auburn University	Raymond J. Harbert College of Business	Auburn, AL	$29,255	66.1
11	University of South Dakota	Beacom School of Business	Vermilion, SD	$14,223	65.6
12	University of North Texas	College of Business	Denton, TX	$24,948	64.2
13	University of Massachusetts	Isenberg School of Management	Amherst, MA	$32,175	61.2
14	IE University	IE Business School	Madrid, Spain	$59,756	59.5
15	James Madison University	College of Business	Harrisonberg, VA	$37,800	59.2
16	Ball State University	Miller College of Business	Muncie, IN	$12,240	59
17	University of Arizona	Eller College of Business	Tucson, AZ	$27,000	58.5
18	North Carolina State University	Poole College of Management	Raleigh, NC	$37,167	57.6
19	Mississippi State	College of Business	Mississippi State, MS	$12,495	57.3
20	Pennsylvania State Univeristy	Smeal College of Business	University Park, PA	$59,312	57.1
21	Arkansas State	College of Business	Jonesboro, AR	$19,140	56.1
22	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	College of Business	Eau Claire, WI	$20,250	55.2
23	University of Mississippi	School of Business Administration	University, MS	$19,032	54.3
24	Syracuse	Martin J. Whitman School of Management	Syracuse, NY	$72,414	53.7
25	University of Tennessee--Martin	College of Buisness and Global Affairs	Martin, TN	$20,292	53.7
26	Washington State University	Carson College of Business	Spokane, WA	$24,000	52.9
27	Georgia College & State University	J. Whitney Bunting College of Business	Milldgeville, GA	$22,170	52.8
28	University of West Georgia	Richards College of Business	Carrollton, GA	$22,170	52.6
29	University of Texas at Dallas	Naveen Jindal School of Management	Dallas, TX	$75,325	52.6
30	University of Nevada	Nazir Ansari College of Business	Reno, NV	$24,012	52.5

Ranking Methodology

Online MBA programs were ranked based on a normalized analysis of their rankings in four reputable sources for online program reviews: U.S. News and World Report, Financial Times, Poets & Quants, and Princeton Review.

This score was then combined with a normalized score based on the relative cost of each program (based on full-time, out-of-state expenses, or calculated by cost per credit multiplied by the required number of credit hours).