I have seen that many universities are starting online mbas. Are such programs for people who don’t need to be assisted in finding a job as they already have one? I have recently graduated and was wondering if I can do any such program while working full time? Is it feasible? What are the best ranked online programs and do they make sense for international students not in the country where these programs are offered

Online degrees fit people who can't go on campus or don't need the other benefits of a campus. They are less good at getting people into traditional MBA roles. 

Most good MBAs require work experience. Other online MiM degrees like the Illinois iMSM are aimed at people with little work experience.  

The FT has a good ranking of online MBAs. They seem to be successful options for students in other countries  

Online degrees fit people who can't go on campus or don't need the other benefits of a campus. They are less good at getting people into traditional MBA roles. 
Most good MBAs require work experience. Other online MiM degrees like the Illinois iMSM are aimed at people with little work experience.  

The FT has a good ranking of online MBAs. They seem to be successful options for students in other countries  

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You can have team projects in an online program. 

The iMSM is hugely selective. 

Illinois is one of the world's top universities. 

You will need to ask an Indian about acceptance in India. 

You can have team projects in an online program. 

The iMSM is hugely selective. 

Illinois is one of the world's top universities. 

You will need to ask an Indian about acceptance in India. 

[Edited by Shaurya123412 on Jun 22, 2020]

The themselves say the iMSM will be highly selective and I have not seen them say the same about their MBA. Entry to the MBA seems very straightforward.  

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The themselves say the iMSM will be highly selective and I have not seen them say the same about their MBA. Entry to the MBA seems very straightforward.  

The themselves say the iMSM will be highly selective and I have not seen them say the same about their MBA. Entry to the MBA seems very straightforward.  

[Edited by Shaurya123412 on Jun 23, 2020]

Illinois is a more prestigious university than Warwick: older, richer, more respected: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2019/reputation-ranking#!/page/0/length/100/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats

Of course, individual firms and managers have their own ideas. In practice, managers value the firms their managers and staff have attended. A manager in Egypt might prefer a candidate from Ain Shams University to a candidate from Harvard. 

In the MiM ranking, salary and career progress are major drivers. People in the iMSM will tend to be in the developing world, and unlike full-time students they won't all change role, so I am not sure it or any other online MiM would be ranked if it met the criteria.

In terms of quality, I'd make a comparison with the students at the MiMs (mostly in what the FT calls the second group) that get most of their students from Asia: Cass, Edinburgh; Grenoble, Imperial, Sydney, UCD; and Warwick. iMSM students will be similarly able but more students will come from more normal, less privileged, families. Students whose families can invest $100k are different from those who spend $10k. iMSM students might speak fewer European languages, have less international work experience, have less 'blue chip' experience, better manicures etc than the students at the second and third group schools. Educationally, I think the iMSM has some advantages: a much bigger core (24 US credit hours, or around 100 UK credits in the core). At many UK MiM programmes, such as Edinburgh, the core is taught in one semester, so 60 UK credits or 15 US credit hours.

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Why does the school admit 1100 students for the imba? The acceptance rate for the mba used to be 50 percent a few years ago for the imba I read. Will the school treat the imsm similarly as well? 

They admit so many students because that is the goal of the school. They closed their fulltime and executives MBA  to focus  on this huge opportunity  with Coursera. That is why they got that massive endowment, to expand the audience of the MBA. 

They admit so many students because that is the goal of the school. They closed their fulltime and executives MBA  to focus  on this huge opportunity  with Coursera. That is why they got that massive endowment, to expand the audience of the MBA. 

Illinois is a more prestigious university than Warwick: older, richer, more respected: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2019/reputation-ranking#!/page/0/length/100/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats

Of course, individual firms and managers have their own ideas. In practice, managers value the firms their managers and staff have attended. A manager in Egypt might prefer a candidate from Ain Shams University to a candidate from Harvard. 

In the MiM ranking, salary and career progress are major drivers. People in the iMSM will tend to be in the developing world, and unlike full-time students they won't all change role, so I am not sure it or any other online MiM would be ranked if it met the criteria.

In terms of quality, I'd make a comparison with the students at the MiMs (mostly in what the FT calls the second group) that get most of their students from Asia: Cass, Edinburgh; Grenoble, Imperial, Sydney, UCD; and Warwick. iMSM students will be similarly able but more students will come from more normal, less privileged, families. Students whose families can invest $100k are different from those who spend $10k. iMSM students might speak fewer European languages, have less international work experience, have less 'blue chip' experience, better manicures etc than the students at the second and third group schools. Educationally, I think the iMSM has some advantages: a much bigger core (24 US credit hours, or around 100 UK credits in the core). At many UK MiM programmes, such as Edinburgh, the core is taught in one semester, so 60 UK credits or 15 US credit hours.

I don't get your point. The size of a school is not the same as its selectivity. 

will they treat it like the imba and admit whoever applies and it will just be a worthless piece of diploma.

This person doesn't understand how the iMBA works. Over 15,000 people have started an iMBA specialization,  and a far smaller number are admitted as degree candidates.