OMBA Ranking 2026: Will An Online MBA Help You Change Careers?

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JOB FUNCTION CHANGERS

We also asked 2025 graduates if their online MBA degrees directly led them to changing job functions. 

Responding graduates at Fairfield University Dolan School of Business reported the highest rate of job function changes at 87.5%. University of Texas at Dallas Jindal School of Management came next with 71.4% of 2025 responding grads reporting changing job functions.

Of the 61 schools from which we collected data, 15 had at least 50% of their alumni report that they used the degree to change roles.

Did you change job functions as a result of the program?
Question Rank
School
Percent ‘Yes’
2026 Overall Rank
1 Fairfield University (Dolan) 87.50% 17
2 University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) 71.43% 2
3 Rice University (Jones) 64.29% 20
4 University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium 63.64% 18
5 University of California-Davis 62.50% 47
6 Santa Clara University (Leavey) 60.00% 24
6 University of Maryland (Smith) 60.00% 36
8 University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business 58.82% 8
9 University of Michigan (Ross) 57.58% 3
10 Hofstra University (Zarb) 57.14% 5
11 Indiana University (Kelley) 53.25% 1
12 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 50.00% 6
12 Clemson University 50.00% 28
12 Jack Welch Management Institute 50.00% 9
12 University of Connecticut 50.00% 25
16 William & Mary (Mason) 47.06% 38
17 North Carolina State University (Poole) 45.45% 22
17 Seattle University (Albers) 45.45% 57
19 Longwood University 44.44% 42
19 Temple University (Fox) 44.44% 52
19 University of Utah (Eccles) 44.44% 13
22 Creighton University (Heider) 42.86% 50
22 University of Denver (Daniels) 42.86% 29
24 Syracuse University (Whitman) 42.31% 37
25 University of Florida (Warrington) 41.82% 10
26 American University (Kogod) 40.00% 41
26 Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) 40.00% 11
26 Texas Tech University (Rawls) 40.00% 30
29 University of Washington (Foster) 39.58% 4
30 Florida International University 38.46% 51
30 Pepperdine University (Graziadio) 38.46% 35
30 Southern Methodist University (Cox) 38.46% 45
33 University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 37.50% 12
34 Auburn University (Harbert) 36.67% 7
35 Ohio University 35.29% 43
35 University of North Texas (Ryan) 35.29% 61
37 University of Iowa (Tippie) 34.04% 26
38 Bryant University 33.33% 19
38 University of Houston (Bauer) 33.33% 58
40 Baylor University (Hankamer) 32.00% 34
40 San Jose State University (Lucas) 32.00% 40
42 University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) 29.63% 21
43 Kennesaw State University (Coles) 28.57% 60
43 Wake Forest University 28.57% 14
45 University of Massachusetts Lowell (Manning) 27.12% 46
46 University of Cincinnati (Lindner) 23.53% 31
47 Lehigh University 22.22% 16
47 University of Missouri (Trulaske) 22.22% 55
49 Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) 20.00% 23
49 MIssissippi State University 20.00% 48
49 University of Michigan-Dearborn 20.00% 39
52 Villanova University 17.65% 15
53 Drexel University (LeBow) 16.67% 54
53 George Mason University (Costello) 16.67% 56
53 Rogers State University 16.67% 44
53 SUNY Oswego 16.67% 53
53 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 16.67% 33
58 University of Delaware (Lerner) 11.11% 32
59 University of South Florida (Muma) 10.00% 27
60 Louisiana State University (Ourso) 9.52% 49
61 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Rollins) 0.00% 59

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