According to Online MBA Today, Missouri State University delivers the state’s best online MBA program.

The ranking guide commended the program for offering a “high-quality distance education at an extreme value.”

How the ranking is determined

Online MBA Today compiled a list of 480 online MBA programs. It assessed each program first for a location in Missouri, and then these four factors:

• Estimated tuition cost (25 percent)
• Accreditation (25 percent)
• Average base salary (25 percent)
• Prestige (25 percent)

All of the data for each factor was weighted equally, averaged and calculated on a 100-point scale. MSU achieved a perfect score of 100.

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About the program

MSU’s online MBA is a 33-credit hour program. Students can complete it fully online. It includes 24 hours of core credits and nine hours of a seminar course and elective options.

Online students can also complete a graduate certificate in the following areas:

• Computer information systems
• Cybersecurity
• Finance
• Project management

Other certificates not offered 100 percent online include:

• Data analytics
• Entrepreneurship
• Financial analysis
• Forensic accounting
• International business
• Leadership
• Management
• Marketing
• Tax accounting