Lindner's Online MBA Earns No. 31 Spot in U.S. News & World Report Ranking
The Carl H. Lindner College of Business was ranked No. 31 among all fully online MBA programs in the U.S. News & World Reports 2016 Best Online MBA Programs.
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 Lindners Online Education.
The rankings for the U.S. News & World Report 2016 Best Online MBA Programs are based on key factors such as student engagement, admission selectivity, peer reputation, faculty credentials and student services and technology.
This 2016 ranking for the two-year-old online MBA comes on the heels of several other impressive rankings accolades for the Lindner MBA. The Lindner MBA recently received its first-ever Top 50 Ranking from Bloomberg Businessweek and it was also recently ranked the No. 1 best value MBA program in the country by CollegeAtlas.org. Additionally, the campus-based Lindner MBA program earned the biggest two-year 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 2016 Best Business Schools list.
For a full listing, visit the Lindner website for all rankings and accolades.
To learn more about the UC MBA program, contact Tiffany Cooper, associate director of graduate enrollment, at (513) 556-7188.
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