STAC Ranked Among The Top 20 For Online MBA Programs in New York

St. Thomas Aquinas College was ranked among the top twenty for online MBA Programs in New York by Online MBA Today.

Pleased with this accolade, the College’s president, Dr. Margaret Mary Fitzpatrick, S.C., Ed.D, added, "The entire St. Thomas Aquinas College community is proud to be recognized by Online MBA Today. We have been ranked highly by multiple external reporting agencies over the years. We have always considered our students and faculty to be among the best and this is a tribute to the entire College Community.”

To find the top online MBA programs in New York, Online MBA Today collected a list 480 online programs and evaluated each program first by location in the state of New York, and then ranked on the following factors: estimated tuition cost, accreditation, and average base salary which was collected from the 2018 Best Business School Ranking by US News and World Report. In addition, a criteria for “prestige” for each program was calculated by evaluating lists from some of the most respected educational rankings systems for online MBA programs: US News and World Report’s Online MBA Ranking, Princeton Review’s Online MBA Ranking, the Financial Times’ Global Online MBA Ranking, andQuacquarelli Symonds’ Distance Online MBA Ranking. All of the criteria was weighted equally, averaged, and then calculated on a 100-point scale.

The School of Business at St. Thomas Aquinas College features one of New York’s best online Master’s of Business Administration degrees with concentrations in Finance, Marketing, Management, Sport Administration, or general MBA. The School of Business receives its excellent business accreditation through the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE). “Acknowledgement by the IACBE further solidifies the commitment of our faculty and administrators to provide our students with the tools needed to succeed in their careers,” said Michael Murphy, dean of the College’s School of Business. “Our program continuously strives to meet the demands of an ever-changing business world.”

St. Thomas Aquinas College is an independent liberal arts college located on 60 acres in Rockland County, NY which provides education at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The College’s 2,800 full and part time students can choose from more than 100 different majors, minors, specializations, and dual degree programs across three Schools: Arts & Sciences, Business, and Education. The College is recognized by U.S. News & World Report in the Top-Tier for Regional Universities, by Colleges of Distinction in both its New York and Catholic editions, by Affordable Colleges Online as a top College in New York for Return on Investment, and is included as a Military Friendly School®. St. Thomas Aquinas College is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools; its School of Education is accredited by National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE); and its School of Business is accredited by the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE). For more information, visit www.stac.edu.