OSU online MBA program receives honor as 2015 Smart Choice Best Online MBA

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Oklahoma State University’s online MBA program was recently recognized as one of the best in the nation and now it is earning another national honor in the 2015 Smart Choice Best Online MBA Ranking. The online MBA program in OSU’s Watson Graduate School of Management is No. 47 in the rankings, which are designed to help students find a top online MBA program to fit their career goals, budget, and schedule, according to the SuperScholar.org website. For the 2015 Smart Choice Best Online MBA Ranking, each accredited online MBA program was evaluated and ranked based on recognition and awards, accreditation, flexibility and accessibility, number of specializations offered, and affordability. The ranking targets students who want a high quality program but who value affordability, flexibility, accessibility, and specialization options over prestige. “OSU has been a leader in online education in general but we are particularly proud of our graduate programs in the Spears School of Business,” said Ramesh Sharda, vice dean of the Watson Graduate School of Management. “The online MBA program has served members of industry and military in achieving their dream of earning a high quality, rigorous MBA degree. We are proud of the accomplishments of our students and faculty.” The recognition comes just weeks after the OSU online MBA was No. 15 in Top Management Degrees ranking of the Top Online MBA Super Ranking 2014-2015, which combine the results of six of the most influential business school and MBA rankings from around the world to create the most comprehensive and holistic ranking of online MBA programs available. In recent years OSU’s MBA program has been recognized for its excellence in a variety of rankings. A story by U.S. News & World Report in 2013 showed that OSU was one of only four schools in the United States in which 100 percent of the full-time MBA students received jobs within three months after graduation. Also, the program was ranked No. 10 as a Best Buy among the 139 competing online MBAs from AACSC-accredited business schools. The Top Management Degrees website states that “by bringing together MBA rankings from US News and World Report’s Online Business School Ranking, Get Educated’s AACSB-Accredited Online MBA Program Student Satisfaction Scores, Eduniversal’s Global Graduate Business School Rankings, The Economist’s MBA Ranking, The Financial Times Online MBA Ranking, and The QS Online MBA Ranking, the subjective and idiosyncratic elements of each publication’s methodology are smoothed out, providing a more accurate and stable picture of the online MBA program landscape. The ranking results of each publication were weighted the same to avoid interjecting our own subjective judgments about which ranking is better.” To view the complete list of the Top 50 Online MBA Programs 2015, go to the SuperSchool website.