Lindner s Online MBA Ranked Among Top 75 Programs in the Nation by U.S. News & World Report

The Carl H. Lindner College of Business received a Top 75 ranking in 

U.S. News & World Report’s 

2015 Best Online Graduate MBA Programs. 

U.S. News & World Report

 ranked Lindner’s online MBA No. 66 in the country and No. 51 among all public institutions.

“Our online MBA mirrors our nationally-ranked campus MBA program by leveraging the same high caliber faculty and the same rigorous coursework in a more flexible format,” says BJ Zirger, associate dean of Lindner’s Online Education.

The rankings for the 

U.S. News & World Report 

2015 Best Online Graduate MBA Programs are based on key factors such as student engagement, admission selectivity, peer reputation, faculty credentials and student services and technology.

This 2015 ranking for the year-old online version comes on the heels of several other impressive rankings accolades for the Lindner MBA. In fall 2014, the Lindner MBA was ranked one of the nation’s Top 50 programs by 

Bloomberg Businessweek 

and was named the No. 1 best value business school in the country by CollegeAtlas.org. Additionally, the campus-based Lindner MBA program recently earned the biggest rankings jump of any school in the country on both the full-time and part-time MBA rankings charts in the 

U.S. News & World Report 2015 Best Business Schools list.

For a full listing of Lindner’s other 

rankings and accolades

, visit the Lindner College of Business website rankings page.

To learn more about the 

UC MBA

 program, contact 

Janaki Vijayaraghavan

, associate director of graduate enrollment, at (513) 556-7188.

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