Missouri has 9 ranked online MBAs at AACSB-accredited business schools,
7 at public universities and 2 at private ones, plus 1 listed below without a rank.
Every one can be completed fully online, so studying at one does not mean moving to
Missouri; the state matters mainly for price at public schools, and for readers who want a
school they know or a network where they work.
The ranking is the same one used nationally: graduate earnings from College Scorecard against
the tuition each school reports to AACSB. Cards are numbered by position in Missouri, and each
shows the program's national rank. Program summaries come from each school's own online MBA
page, with the date it was read. How the scores work.
The Top 9 Online MBA Programs In Missouri
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Missouri University of Science and Technology
Master of Business Administration (MBA)Department of Business and Information Technology
Online MBA programs in Missouri · Rolla, Missouri · Public · AACSB accredited
Five start dates a year and 8-week terms set the pace, and applicants need neither a GMAT or GRE score nor an undergraduate business degree.
SEMO's general management MBA is delivered completely online, with courses offered in 8-week terms and five start dates each year. The degree requires 33 credit hours of coursework focused on strategy, analysis, and the applications and systems of business, with BA650 serving as the capstone course.
Neither the GMAT nor the GRE is required, and students without an undergraduate business degree can build foundational knowledge through Business Essentials courses, applying up to 3 of those credit hours toward the 33 required. SEMO also awards credit for prior learning through credit by examination, military-related credit or existing experience.
Graduate certificates, many of which can be completed online within the MBA without extra courses, let students add a focus to Missouri State's fully online MBA.
The MBA can be completed 100% online in 34 credit hours when foundation courses are not needed. Missouri State estimates one to two years of study for full-time students and two to three years part time, and online courses must be completed within the United States.
The GMAT/GRE requirement has been temporarily suspended for all applicants, although the suspension does not guarantee admission. About half of the program's MBA students are online, most of them working professionals whose experience ranges from entry-level to tenured careers.
Whole-program tuition at Missouri's ranked online MBAs runs from $14,115 to $79,200, with a median of $27,000 , below the $32,265 median for all ranked programs. The 7 public programs have a median of $19,040, the 2 private ones $59,108.
One public school in Missouri report a lower price for residents:
Missouri Western State University: $14,250 for Missouri residents, $16,020 for everyone else.
Tuition is the whole-program figure each school reports to AACSB. Schools update it on their own schedule and some exclude fees, so it can trail the price on the school's own site: Illinois reports $24,984 to AACSB for the iMBA, and its program page lists $27,288 in total tuition and fees. Use it to compare programs, and confirm the current price with the school.
What Managers Earn In Missouri
There is no federal figure for MBA salaries, but BLS reports pay by occupation, and general and
operations management is the broadest role MBA graduates move into. In Missouri its median is
$79,300, $26,470 below the national
$105,770, 50th highest of the 51 states BLS reports.
The middle of the range is wide: $42,460 at the 10th percentile and $188,820 at the 90th. The state has 109,020 people in the job. Figures are from the May 2025 release.
MBA salaries by occupation covers the other roles.
Missouri Online MBA Programs Listed Without A Rank
These AACSB-accredited schools report a fully online MBA but lack one of the two figures the
ranking needs: College Scorecard earnings for the school's business master's graduates, or a
tuition figure reported to AACSB.
Missouri Southern State University$24,660
Common Questions About Studying In Missouri
Is an online MBA worth it?
What can be checked is the price against the earnings. The 9 ranked Missouri programs report a median $27,000 for the whole degree, and their schools' business master's graduates earned a median $75,162 a year after finishing. No federal source reports what the same people would have earned without the degree, so that is a description of the group rather than a return.
Will federal aid pay for an online MBA?
Graduate students file the same FAFSA as undergraduates and the programs here are at accredited institutions, so federal loans are generally available; grants largely are not, since Pell is an undergraduate program. This site does not model aid: the tuition on every card is the published whole-program figure the school reports to AACSB, before any aid.
What is the best online MBA program in Missouri?
On this ranking, Missouri University of Science and Technology, which is 40th of 286 nationally. University of Missouri-St. Louis and Southeast Missouri State University are next in Missouri. The ranking weighs graduate earnings against tuition, so a program with high earnings and a high price can place below a cheaper one.
What is the cheapest online MBA in Missouri?
Southeast Missouri State University, which reports $14,115 in whole-program tuition to AACSB.
How many AACSB-accredited online MBA programs are there in Missouri?
10 AACSB-accredited schools in Missouri report a fully online MBA to AACSB. 9 of them are ranked here, and 1 is listed without a rank because a figure the ranking needs is not published.
What do managers earn in Missouri?
BLS puts the median for general and operations managers in Missouri at $79,300, $26,470 below the national median of $105,770. That is an occupation figure, not an MBA salary; federal data does not report pay by degree.
Online MBA Programs In Other States
An online MBA does not tie you to the school's state. 73 of the
202 public schools ranked here report a higher out-of-state price for it. These are
the other states with enough ranked programs for a page of their own.
Accreditation, online MBA offerings, concentrations and tuition: AACSB's list of accredited schools, retrieved September 21, 2026. Program details on that list are reported to AACSB by each school.
Graduate earnings and debt: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field-of-study file (Most-Recent-Cohorts-Field-of-Study_06102026.zip), business master's in CIP 52.01 and 52.02.
Institution identifiers: IPEDS, used to match each AACSB school to its federal records.
