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
- The average number of full-time faculty for on-campus MBA in programs is 72
- The lowest number of full-time faculty for on-campus MBA in programs is 8
- The highest number of full-time faculty for on-campus MBA in programs is 449
- 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 58%
- 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
- Indiana University Bloomington/Indianapolis - 449
- Arizona State University - 294
- The University of Texas at Dallas - 240
- University of Southern California - 224
- Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey-Newark/New Brunswick - 209
- Baruch College-The City University of New York - 205
- Cornell University - 199
- New York University - 194
- The University of Georgia - 191
- Northwestern University - 184
- The University of Alabama - 181
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville - 181
- Northeastern University - 179
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 179
- The University of Texas at Austin - 177
- University of South Carolina - 173
- University of Arkansas - 172
- Boston University - 172
- The Pennsylvania State University - 172
- Texas A&M University - 170
- Kennesaw State University - 169
- Purdue University - 168
- The Ohio State University - 168
- University of Miami - 168
- University of Wisconsin-Madison - 167
- Florida International University - 165
- Baylor University - 163
- University of Maryland - 161
- Bentley University - 161
- Miami University - 160
- University of North Texas - 156
- Brigham Young University - 152
- University of Delaware - 151
- Georgia State University - 151
- University of South Florida - 150
- Santa Clara University - 149
- University of Houston - 149
- The University of Texas at San Antonio - 148
- Oklahoma State University - 148
- Babson College - 146
- California State University, Fullerton - 146
- University of Notre Dame - 145
- The University of Iowa - 144
- University of Minnesota - 143
- Washington University in St. Louis - 142
- Temple University - 141
- University of Colorado at Boulder - 139
- University of Illinois at Chicago - 137
- The University of Michigan - 133
- Texas Tech University - 130
MBA Programs Ranked by the Best Faculty
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 478 faculty, 449 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.