Part-time business programs play a vital role for working people who can't go to school full time because of family or financial reasons.
U.S. News's part-time MBA ranking is based on five factors: average peer assessment score (50 percent of the school's overall score); the average GMAT score and average GRE quantitative and verbal scores of part-time MBA students entering in fall 2012 (15 percent), which allowed us to take into account the admissions test scores of the entire entering class; their average undergraduate GPA (5 percent); work experience (15 percent); and the percentage of the business school's fall 2012 MBA enrollment that is part time (15 percent). The statistical data were collected in fall 2012 and early 2013.
The average peer assessment score is calculated from a fall 2012 survey that asked business school deans and MBA program directors at each of the nation's 325 part-time MBA programs to rate the other part-time programs on a scale from marginal (1) to outstanding (5). Forty-five percent of those surveyed responded.
To be eligible for the part-time ranking, a program needed to be accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International and have at least 20 students enrolled part time in fall 2012; 282 part-time MBA programs met those criteria and were included in this ranking.
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U.S. News will supply schools/programs listed as Rank Not Published with their numerical rankings, if they submit a request following the procedures listed in the Information for School Officials.
Schools/programs marked as Rank Not Published are listed alphabetically. In graduate business we have numerically ranked the top three fourths of the graduate business schools that qualified to be ranked. The bottom quarter of the rank-eligible business schools are listed as Rank Not Published and are listed alphabetically.
Unranked means that U.S. News did not calculate a numerical ranking for that school or program. The school or program did not supply U.S. News with enough key statistical data to be numerically ranked by U.S. News. Schools or programs marked as Unranked are listed alphabetically and are listed below those marked as Rank Not Published.
Sources: U.S. News and the schools. Assessment data collected by Ipsos Public Affairs. N/A = Data were not provided by school.
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