World’s Best Schools For Online MBA Programs, 2017

Warwick Business School and Hough Graduate School of Business rank first and second in the CEOWORLD magazine’s world’s best schools for online MBA programs 2017, while Spain’s IE Business School takes third place. Of the top ten schools on the list, five are based in the U.S, with Hough Graduate School of Business at 2, F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at 4, D’Amore-McKim School of Business at 7, Kelley School of Business at 8, and Chapman Graduate School of Business at 10.

Making up the rest of the top 10 schools for online MBA programs are three institutes from the U.K. and one each from Spain (IE Business School, 3rd) and Australia (UNSW Business School, 5ht). The three British institutes in the top 10 are Warwick Business School (1), Durham University Business School (6) and the University of Bradford School of Management (10).

For our annual ranking of the best schools for online MBA programs, we looked at 129 perennially top-rated institutes that offer online MBA programs and evaluated them based on the most recent data available on 7 indicators: admissions eligibility, job placement rate, faculty training and credentials, technological infrastructure, specialization, recruiter feedback, and global reputation (determined through our annual reader survey). We considered global reputation and career outcomes as the most telling factors of a school’s worth, and these two categories were weighted more heavily than the other five.

These are the world’s best schools for online MBA programs, 2017

Rank	School	Country	Score
1	Warwick Business School	UK	97
2	Hough Graduate School of Business	US	96.8
3	IE Business School	Spain	96.7
4	F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business - Babson College	US	96.5
5	AGSM Programs at UNSW Australia Business School	Australia	96.2
6	Durham University Business School	UK	95.7
7	D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University	US	95.5
8	Kelley School of Business - Indiana University	US	95.4
9	Chapman Graduate School of Business at Florida International University	US	95.1
10	University of Bradford School of Management	UK	94.8
11	George Washington University School of Business	US	94.6
12	University of Nebraska Lincoln	US	94.3
13	Open University Business School	UK	94.1
14	LeBow College of Business at Drexel University	US	93.7
15	WP Carey School of Business at Arizona State University	US	93.6
16	Isenberg School of Management at University of Massachusetts	US	93.4
17	Kenan–Flagler Business School at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	US	93.2
18	Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland	US	93.1
19	Alliance Manchester Business School	UK	92.9
20	Raymond J. Harbert College of Business at Auburn University	UK	92.8
21	Arkansas State University	US	92.7
22	Lehigh University	UK	92.6
23	Fox School of Business at Temple University	US	92.4
24	Oxford Brookes University	UK	92.3
25	Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University	US	90.8
26	University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium	US	90.5
27	Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California	US	90.1
28	Miller College of Business at Ball State University	US	88.7
29	Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas	US	88.6
30	Penn State World Campus	US	88.4
31	Mississippi State University/a>	US	88.3
32	North Carolina State University (Jenkins)	US	88.1
33	University of Wisconsin, Whitewater	US	86.8
34	Aberdeen Business School at Robert Gordon University	UK	86.7
35	Aston Business School at Aston University	UK	86.6
36	Florida State University	US	86.3
37	Kate Tiedemann College of Business at University of South Florida	US	86.1
38	Deakin Business School	Australia	85.7
39	Thunderbird School of Global Management	US	85.6
40	Rochester Institute of Technology	US	85.4
41	EU Business School	Switzerland	85.1
42	OBS Business School, SpainOBS Business School	Spain	84.8
43	Strathclyde Business School	UK	84.7
44	James Madison University	US	84.6
45	IEBS Business School	Spain	84.4
46	Imperial College Business School	UK	84.2
47	Beacom School of Business at the University of South Dakota.	US	83.8
48	EuroMBA consortium	Netherlands	83.7
49	Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University	US	83.5
50	University of Liverpool	UK	83.1
51	Instituto Europeo de Posgrado	Spain	82.9
52	London School of Business and Finance	UK	82.4
53	Nottingham Trent University	UK	82.2

The World’s Best Schools For Online MBA Programs, 2017 by the CEOWORLD magazine is based on 7 major indicators of quality, overall Score (100%) is the sum of:

1) Academic reputation and influence
2) Admission eligibility
3) Job placement rate and career outcomes
4) Recruiter feedback
5) Specialization
6) Faculty training and credentials
7) Technological infrastructure

Data for these indicators was collected from publicly available sources, university’s website, our research, and survey. It measures the quality of education, job placements of students, and the recruiters feedback, without relying on university data submissions. Students, industry professionals, and recruiters were asked to rate universities on a scale of 1 “marginal” to 100 “outstanding” or “don’t know.”

However, this is by no means a comprehensive list, while the universities above are the “CEOWORLD magazine’s World’s Best Schools For Online MBA Programs, 2017,” there may be many other universities that offer excellent programs.

* This rankings should not be viewed as the most important aspect when choosing a university, and are simply one element to consider.

* The top-ranked university receives 100 points.

* Universities within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

* The rankings are the result of a rigorous analytical exercise, incorporating multiple data sources, without relying on university data submissions.

* Detailed survey data and information collected directly from 96,000 individuals, across 6 data points.

* Surveys completed by 40,000 students, 34,000 industry professionals, and 22,000 recruiters around the world.

* Magazine surveyed 96,000 people in 52 countries between 12nd September and 16th December 2016.

*The overall score are numerical scores given to the universities based on students, industry professionals, and recruiter feedback — measuring the quality of the university. Overall scores are out of 100.

More details about the “World’s Best Schools For Online MBA Programs, 2017” – Email info@ceoworld.biz

The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 96.000 respondents is plus or minus 1.4 percentage points. In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that as in all survey research, there are possible sources of error—such as coverage, nonresponse and measurement error——that could affect the results.

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