A minority of professional MBA students now receive financial support from their employers.
The percentage of students enrolled in professional MBA programs who receive financial support from their employers has steadily declined over the past 20 years. Data collected from professional MBA alumni—from programs such as part-time MBA, online MBA, and executive MBA—indicate that the share of students receiving funding dropped from around 2 in 3 for the graduating class of 1996 to less than 1 in 2 for the graduating class of 2015.
This has been offset in part by an increase in the percentage of students who have self-financed their professional MBA. Among alumni that earned a professional MBA in 1996, just 1 in 3 (33%) was self-financed. For the class of 2015, that percentage rose to 58 percent.
For more, check out the 2016 Alumni Perspectives Survey Report.