Best Online MBA Programs for 2023

Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business has offered a well-respected physical MBA in the San Francisco Bay Area for decades, and according to students, their new online MBA program has come strongly out of the gate. There’s a quarterly online program that’s all about flexibility, on account of “being online without any set class schedules,” and while the work remains rigorous and demanding, particularly for those already working jobs or raising families, enrollees boast of the time-management skills they’ve picked up along the way, and stress that because you can “take as many classes as you’re willing to handle” and that “extensions [on assignments are] typically … granted by professors upon request, so it’s fairly doable to maintain a work-life balance.”

Some students note that a few bugs are still being worked out in the rollout of the online MBA program, and that not all professors are as equally adept at utilizing the environment’s message boards and video lectures. There is, however, a “clear roadmap to graduation and [professors] are very responsive to our Read More...

The Online MBA program at Southern Illinois University—Edwardsville, a public school, was started in 2019. The application deadline for the Online MBA program is rolling. The Online MBA program is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). The school rates the importance of the GMAT or GRE as important in admission decisions and report an average GMAT of 487. The Online MBA program has a total of 125 students; 34% of Online MBA students are underrepresented minorities; 49% of Online MBA students are women. The total program cost is around $17,269. Scholarships are available and the average annual aid package is about $7,348. Read More...

The University of Arizona's Eller College of Management conveniently offers six starts throughout the year for its Eller Online MBA for working professionals, and students praise the "flexibility" of choosing how many courses to take at a time. With six concentrations in entrepreneurship, health care, finance, management and organizations, management information systems, and marketing, students appreciate the "breadth of classes offered" and "the opportunity to touch upon a variety of subjects." Students choose the Eller Online MBA for its "affordability," "great reputation" and "convenient online experience." As one student reports, "University of Arizona's program was the right mix of cost, reputation, and course offering." Another adds that the program embraces its online student population "by communicating daily, providing 24/7 librarian services, and making its professors accessible." Courses are 100 percent online and delivered via the "user-friendly" Blackboard platform, which "enables in-class discussions, group discussions, private discussions with the professor and video lectures that do not skip or stall." As one student raves, "Accessibility was flawless . . . I travelled frequently while in the program Read More...