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Online MBAs are seen in business education circles as a way to redress the gender imbalance on campus. Many institutions struggle with this, but have strived to recruit more women into online education where there can be a far better gender balance than on campus.

Online MBA students tend to be older than full-time candidates and looking for a career acceleration: they enter the programs with relatively high pay and it generally surges higher still on graduation. The increase can be as high as nearly 50 percent after a few years and the actual salary achieved above $200,000 on average. 

Worldwide, Online MBA programs are on the rise. And it’s clear why: an MBA delivered through distance learning is attractive to many professionals who don’t want to stop working for a year or two in order to pursue a degree. See the Top 10 Online MBAs Worldwide.

Tech careers rae big, and that's why some schools have centered their entire Online MBA programs around technology, or offer technology management options in the core curriculum, which are sometimes co-designed with employers such as Amazon and Microsoft.