Top MBA Colleges for Distance Learning

Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University

• Bloomberg Businessweek provides an annual ranking of the top MBA programs in the United States. Of its 2009 top 25 programs, only Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh offers a distance learning option. Tepper also ranks as the No. 1 distance learning MBA program at the Top MBA website. Carnegie Mellon began offering distance-learning options in 1996. Its program is set up on-site at businesses in different parts of the country. Interested businesses with at least six students can collaborate with the college to provide the classes at their workplace. Students get the benefit of the No. 19-ranked Bloomberg Businessweek MBA school without having to sacrifice two years from their career. The program uses the same curriculum as on campus, and takes three years to complete.

  Tepper School of Business
  Carnegie Mellon University
  5000 Forbes Avenue
  Pittsburgh, PA 15213
  412-268-2268
  tepper.cmu.edu/mba/mba-programs-coursework/flexmode-distance-learning-mba/index.aspx

University of Texas at Dallas

• The second-ranked school in the United States for distance learning MBA's is the University of Texas at Dallas. Financial Times of London has ranked the school as one of the top online MBA programs in the world. The Global MBA Online program at UT Dallas offers the university's MBA program to students who are unable to be on campus to complete their studies. The instructors are the same professors who teach at the school's campus site. The curriculum, admission requirements and costs are the same as the on-campus program, and the students do the coursework in the same timeframe, a trimester system. Students do courses completely online and the university requires no visits to the Dallas campus.

  The University of Texas at Dallas
  School of Management
  SM 42
  800 West Campbell Road
  Richardson, TX 75080
  972-883-2705
  som.utdallas.edu/onlinePrograms/globalMbaOnline

Babson College

• "U.S. News & World Report" has ranked Babson College's MBA program No. 1 in the nation in teaching and preparing entrepreneurs. The school's distance learning MBA ranks third in the Top MBA.com rankings for reputation with recruiters and career placement. Babson calls its distance learning degree program a fast track MBA program. Part-time students can complete it in 24 months. The program is somewhat of a hybrid, combined Web-based learning with some in-person class contact. The program connects business professionals with each other in a team-learning approach, which allows students access not only to the school's staff, but also to peers in the business world who are going through the same things as each other. A secondary benefit of that approach is the career networking it provides to Babson distance learning students. As with Babson's on-campus MBA, this program also has entrepreneurial leadership as its primary theme.

  Babson College
  231 Forest Street
  Babson Park, MA 02457
  781-235-1200
  mba.babson.edu/programs/FastTrack.aspx