I am looking for a budget online MBA program ranked among the top 50 in USA

[ThatBankDude]

@shrekr, if you want to pursue a rather prestigious MBA program, you’ll need to look at the following:

•University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
•Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business
•University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler School of Business
•Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business
•University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
•University of California-Berkeley, Haas School of Business

There are a few more than offer Online MBA programs. Having said that, as you said, they will not provide you with the ROI as most all of those I listed above are running about $100K total.

If you do not want a prestigious brand on your resume, then I would go with the cheapest AACSB program you can find.

@ThatBankDude: Thank you for your response.
I want a prestigious brand (within a certain budget) on my resume and I am trying to figure out "how does one know which are the top 50 or 100 prestigious MBA schools?" 
I though US News ranking determines if a school is prestigious or not. Let me know if I am barking the wrong tree.

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For online MBAs with great prestige relative to cost, also check out Boston University Questrom and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Gies.

Hi Jonathan,
How did you figure out Boston University and UILUC are prestigious? Is there a website ranking them?
Thanks

Both are highly ranked schools. 

Edurank will give you a decent idea.


For business schools I don’t think it gets a ton better than UIUC. 
I like Boston cause it’s 30 credits vs UIUC’s 48 

Program wise. It will be hard to find rankings that actually mean anything.

If you base it on rankings like he seems to be, there are quite a few better than UIUC.