U.S. News & World Report has ranked Villanova Business School’s Online MBA program no. 6 in the United States. The school was also ranked no. 4 in Student Services and Technology and no. 8 for Student Engagement. These rankings were released in the 2015 annual “Best Online Degree Programs: Graduate Business” rankings.
The U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of online business programs considers the reputation of the program among high-ranking academic officials in business through a peer survey administered each fall. The ranking’s methodology emphasizes student engagement, admission selectivity, faculty credentials and training, and student services and technology capabilities.
Schools that are ranked by U.S. News are first categorized by their mission, which is derived from the breakdown of types of higher education institutions as refined by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2010.
The U.S. Department of Education and many higher education associations use the system to organize their data and to determine colleges’ eligibility for grant money. In short, the Carnegie categories are the accepted standard in higher education. The category names that U.S. News uses are, National Universities, National Liberal Arts Colleges, Regional Universities and Regional Colleges, but their definitions rely on the Carnegie principles.
The majority of the data supplied for the program ranking was based on Villanova School of Business’s Master of Science in Church Management (MSCM) program, an innovative, two-year online graduate business program designed to enable church leaders to apply sound business principles to church management-related issues and decision making.