100 MBA Programs Ranked by the Best Faculty

Campus MBA Programs by Best Faculty

Faculty strength is a hard thing to measure. You need to look at a variety of numbers to get a sense of the access you’ll have to professors inside and outside of the classroom and how qualified they are to teach. You’ll want to look at the number of faculty a program has, the percent of the faculty that are employed full-time versus part-time, and the percentage of the professors who have doctorate degrees. If you plan to enroll in an MBA program rather than just pick up a business book from the shelf at Barnes and Noble, it’s worth digging into these statistics to see what you’re getting for your investment in tuition dollars.

100 Best MBA Programs Ranked by the Best Faculty

Rank	University	Full-Time Faculty	Full & Part-Time Faculty	FT Faculty with Doctorate
1	Indiana University Bloomington/Indianapolis	322	32,869	66.30%
2	Baruch College-The City University of New York	189	30,259	93.20%
3	The University of Texas at Dallas	223	26,267	81.00%
4	Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey-Newark/New Brunswick	222	26,176	76.90%
5	University of Southern California	227	24,855	83.00%
6	Temple University	193	23,652	83.90%
7	The University of Texas at Austin	186	22,023	86.00%
8	Cornell University	182	20,956	94.00%
9	DePaul University	152	20,486	85.50%
10	Northeastern University	163	20,266	89.00%
11	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	178	20,101	85.40%
12	California State University, Fullerton	145	19,986	90.70%
13	University of South Carolina	164	19,667	79.30%
14	University of Delaware	155	18,725	89.50%
15	The Ohio State University	164	18,615	67.00%
16	Texas A&M University	152	18,502	78.00%
17	Boston University	162	18,326	72.00%
18	Georgia State University	140	17,775	78.70%
19	University of Arkansas	137	17,679	79.80%
20	The University of Michigan	132	17,407	92.00%
21	The University of Alabama	162	17,323	79.50%
22	University of Tennessee at Knoxville	155	16,841	88.90%
23	University of South Florida	145	16,822	82.10%
24	University of Miami	147	16,525	77.00%
25	University of Utah	134	16,402	75.20%
26	University of Maryland	147	16,266	87.00%
27	Oklahoma State University	126	15,926	92.10%
28	University of Connecticut	126	15,919	83.00%
29	University of Wisconsin-Madison	133	15,787	74.00%
30	Brigham Young University	139	15,575	89.00%
31	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	136	15,496	82.60%
32	The University of Iowa	134	15,451	77.50%
33	Oklahoma State University	135	15,358	-0
34	The University of Texas at San Antonio	129	15,325	89.80%
35	University of Notre Dame	135	15,042	80.00%
36	Babson College	140	15,033	84.00%
37	Suffolk University	111	15,025	82.60%
38	George Mason University	117	14,983	77.40%
39	Boston College	126	14,767	-0
40	University of California, Los Angeles	104	14,533	100.00%
41	The University of Arizona	133	14,365	83.70%
42	Middle Tennessee State University	124	13,874	87.30%
43	University of North Texas	114	13,803	82.10%
44	The George Washington University	116	13,633	96.00%
45	California State University, Los Angeles	86	13,588	97.10%
46	San Francisco State University	118	13,413	100.00%
47	University of Colorado at Boulder	126	13,393	78.20%
48	University of Illinois at Chicago	124	13,366	83.90%
49	Santa Clara University	126	13,341	85.40%
50	Hult International Business School	98	13,182	83.30%
51	University of Denver	107	13,166	68.90%
52	The University of Texas at Arlington	114	13,125	83.20%
53	University of Houston-Downtown	83	13,092	78.00%
54	Duke University	109	13,001	96.00%
55	Michigan State University	115	12,965	89.10%
56	Clemson University	111	12,784	71.10%
57	Iowa State University	117	12,567	77.50%
58	Old Dominion University	106	12,535	76.80%
59	Texas Christian University	101	12,328	95.80%
60	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	115	12,175	86.30%
60	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	117	12,175	85.00%
62	Appalachian State University	112	12,125	85.10%
63	American University	85	12,016	80.30%
64	Utah Valley University	94	11,993	67.20%
65	University of New Hampshire	103	11,967	78.70%
66	University of Central Florida	110	11,936	71.80%
67	University of Massachusetts Amherst	95	11,892	87.80%
68	Louisiana State University	102	11,888	82.40%
69	Towson University	102	11,825	75.50%
70	Grand Valley State University	97	11,783	76.60%
71	Washington State University	99	11,742	81.70%
72	Georgetown University	107	11,733	100.00%
73	Pepperdine University	103	11,692	79.70%
74	University of Cincinnati	103	11,691	85.90%
75	University of Florida	107	11,637	94.00%
76	Texas Tech University	114	11,623	82.30%
77	Villanova University	99	11,621	84.50%
78	East Carolina University	109	11,545	70.10%
79	University of Oregon	86	11,428	79.50%
80	University of Kansas	94	11,394	84.10%
81	Pace University	95	11,228	88.20%
82	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	92	11,208	88.20%
83	St. John's University	90	11,183	95.90%
84	West Virginia University	93	11,017	78.90%
85	Auburn University	100	10,766	91.10%
86	San Jose State University	71	10,727	-0
87	Central Michigan University	106	10,725	70.60%
88	Lehigh University	92	10,595	89.70%
89	Southern Methodist University	94	10,577	92.00%
90	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro	99	10,517	90.00%
91	San Diego State University	73	10,496	96.10%
92	University of Massachusetts Lowell	75	10,375	75.40%
93	North Carolina State University	93	10,238	67.90%
94	Georgia Institute of Technology	93	10,164	81.00%
95	University at Buffalo, State University of New York	71	10,116	79.00%
96	Utah State University	93	9,742	72.10%
97	University of Louisville	86	9,707	77.90%
98	University of Dayton	77	9,663	75.80%
99	Loyola University Chicago	81	9,571	81.00%
100	Missouri State University	79	8,933	-0

• The average number of full-time faculty for on-campus MBA in programs is 63
• The lowest number of full-time faculty for on-campus MBA in programs is 4
• The highest number of full-time faculty for on-campus MBA in programs is 322

• The average percentage of MBA full-time faculty with a Doctorate degree 84%
• The lowest percentage of MBA full-time faculty with a Doctorate degree 50%
• The highest percentage of MBA full-time faculty with a Doctorate degree 120%

Knowing that your professor is an industry influencer and has extensive teaching experience in the field of is a clear sign that a program delivers high quality education.

50 MBA Programs with the Most Full-Time Faculty

1. Indiana University Bloomington/Indianapolis - 322
2. Arizona State University - 247
3. University of Southern California - 227
4. The University of Texas at Dallas - 223
5. Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey-Newark/New Brunswick - 222
6. Temple University - 193
7. Baruch College-The City University of New York - 189
8. The University of Texas at Austin - 186
9. Cornell University - 182
10. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 178
11. The University of Georgia - 175
12. Kennesaw State University - 169
13. Bentley University - 166
14. The Pennsylvania State University - 165
15. University of South Carolina - 164
16. The Ohio State University - 164
17. Northeastern University - 163
18. Boston University - 162
19. The University of Alabama - 162
20. Baylor University - 159
21. Florida International University - 157
22. University of Delaware - 155
23. University of Tennessee at Knoxville - 155
24. Texas A&M University - 152
25. DePaul University - 152
26. Miami University - 149
27. University of Maryland - 147
28. University of Miami - 147
29. California State University, Fullerton - 145
30. University of South Florida - 145
31. Georgia State University - 140
32. Babson College - 140
33. University of Minnesota - 139
34. Brigham Young University - 139
35. University of Arkansas - 137
36. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - 136
37. University of Notre Dame - 135
38. Oklahoma State University - 135
39. University of Utah - 134
40. The University of Iowa - 134
41. The University of Arizona - 133
42. University of Wisconsin-Madison - 133
43. Florida Atlantic University - 132
44. The University of Michigan - 132
45. Purdue University - 131
46. Fordham University - 130
47. The University of Texas at San Antonio - 129
48. University of Houston - 129
49. James Madison University - 128
50. Santa Clara University - 126

MBA Programs with the Highest and Lowest Full-Time Faculty

The campus MBA program with the largest total full- and part-time faculty is the Indiana University Bloomington/Indianapolis. The program has 32,869 faculty, 322 of which are full time and 66.3% of whom have a doctorate degree.

The University of Hawaii at Hilo has the smallest faculty, with 17 full- and part-time professors, 12 of which of are employed full-time. All of University of Hawaii-Hilo’s faculty have doctorate degrees. Consider these numbers in conjunction with faculty/student ratios to see whether a program’s faculty is strong but spread thin across a large student body, or whether it’s small but still sufficient to give you the personalized attention you need.

See our online MBA programs ranked by faculty strength.