How Online MBA 2025 Graduates Rated Their Program’s Learning Experience

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QUALITY OF PROFESSORS

The quality of professors can make or break the student experience for any graduate program, particularly online. We asked alumni to rate their professors in overall quality as well as in accessibility and responsiveness. As with other questions, respondents rated professors on a 10-point scale.

Alumni at University of Michigan (Ross) rated their faculty the highest for quality with an average 9.9. In all, alumni from 34 programs rated professor quality 9 or higher.

When rated on their accessibility and responsiveness, professors from Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) and Wake Forest University earned a perfect 10. An impressive 48 of 61 schools earned a score of 9 or higher in the metric from alumni.

How would you appraise the overall quality of your professors?
Question Rank
School
Prof Quality
1 University of Michigan (Ross) 9.9
2 Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) 9.8
2 Indiana University (Kelley) 9.8
4 University of Connecticut 9.7
5 University of Utah (Eccles) 9.6
5 University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium 9.6
7 Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) 9.5
7 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 9.5
7 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 9.5
7 University of Washington (Foster) 9.5
11 Hofstra University (Zarb) 9.4
11 Jack Welch Management Institute 9.4
11 University of Denver (Daniels) 9.4
14 Bryant University 9.3
14 Fairfield University (Dolan) 9.3
14 Syracuse University (Whitman) 9.3
14 Texas Tech University (Rawls) 9.3
14 University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) 9.3
14 Wake Forest University 9.3
20 Auburn University (Harbert) 9.2
20 Lehigh University 9.2
20 Ohio University 9.2
20 Rogers State University 9.2
24 Clemson University 9.1
24 MIssissippi State University 9.1
24 University of Delaware (Lerner) 9.1
24 University of Florida (Warrington) 9.1
24 University of Iowa (Tippie) 9.1
24 University of Maryland (Smith) 9.1
24 University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) 9.1
24 University of Michigan-Dearborn 9.1
24 William & Mary (Mason) 9.1
33 Rice University (Jones) 9.0
33 University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 9.0
35 Baylor University (Hankamer) 8.9
35 Creighton University (Heider) 8.9
35 Temple University (Fox) 8.9
35 University of Cincinnati (Lindner) 8.9
35 University of South Florida (Muma) 8.9
35 University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business 8.9
35 VIllanova University 8.9
42 American University (Kogod) 8.8
42 Longwood University 8.8
44 Kennesaw State University (Coles) 8.7
44 Pepperdine University (Graziadio) 8.7
44 Santa Clara University (Leavey) 8.7
47 North Carolina State University (Poole) 8.6
47 University of Missouri (Trulaske) 8.6
49 Drexel University (LeBow) 8.5
50 San Jose State University (Lucas) 8.4
50 Seattle University (Albers) 8.4
50 University of North Texas (Ryan) 8.4
50 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Rollins) 8.4
54 Florida International University 8.3
54 George Mason University (Costello) 8.3
54 Louisiana State University (Ourso) 8.3
54 University of Massachusetts Lowell (Manning) 8.3
58 University of California-Davis 8.2
59 SUNY Oswego 8.0
59 University of Houston (Bauer) 8.0
61 Southern Methodist University (Cox) 7.9

 

How accessible and responsive were your professors?
Question Rank School
Responsiveness
1 Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) 10.00
1 Wake Forest University 10.00
3 Indiana University (Kelley) 9.90
3 University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) 9.90
5 American University (Kogod) 9.80
5 Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) 9.80
5 Hofstra University (Zarb) 9.80
5 University of Connecticut 9.80
9 University of Michigan (Ross) 9.70
9 University of Michigan-Dearborn 9.70
9 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 9.70
9 University of Utah (Eccles) 9.70
13 Jack Welch Management Institute 9.60
13 Lehigh University 9.60
13 Syracuse University (Whitman) 9.60
13 University of Denver (Daniels) 9.60
13 University of Maryland (Smith) 9.60
13 University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 9.60
13 University of Washington (Foster) 9.60
13 University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium 9.60
21 Auburn University (Harbert) 9.50
21 Bryant University 9.50
21 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 9.50
21 Fairfield University (Dolan) 9.50
21 MIssissippi State University 9.50
21 Ohio University 9.50
21 University of Florida (Warrington) 9.50
21 University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) 9.50
21 VIllanova University 9.50
30 North Carolina State University (Poole) 9.40
31 Baylor University (Hankamer) 9.30
31 Clemson University 9.30
31 University of Delaware (Lerner) 9.30
31 University of Iowa (Tippie) 9.30
35 Longwood University 9.20
35 San Jose State University (Lucas) 9.20
35 Santa Clara University (Leavey) 9.20
35 University of California-Davis 9.20
35 University of Missouri (Trulaske) 9.20
35 University of South Florida (Muma) 9.20
35 University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business 9.20
42 Creighton University (Heider) 9.10
42 Temple University (Fox) 9.10
44 Drexel University (LeBow) 9.00
44 Pepperdine University (Graziadio) 9.00
44 Rogers State University 9.00
44 Texas Tech University (Rawls) 9.00
44 William & Mary (Mason) 9.00
49 University of Cincinnati (Lindner) 8.90
50 Rice University (Jones) 8.80
50 Seattle University (Albers) 8.80
50 University of North Texas (Ryan) 8.80
53 Florida International University 8.70
53 Louisiana State University (Ourso) 8.70
53 University of Houston (Bauer) 8.70
53 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Rollins) 8.70
57 University of Massachusetts Lowell (Manning) 8.50
58 George Mason University (Costello) 8.40
59 Southern Methodist University (Cox) 8.20
60 Kennesaw State University (Coles) 8.00
60 SUNY Oswego 8.00

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