Blake Leathers, online MBA student
"Working 40 hours a week limits when and how I can do my work, but with the MBA being an online program, I can pretty much fit it in whenever. A lot of the courses allow for you to plan however you want to."
Whether he’s completing assignments in the late evening, or adding to discussion posts from his couch, Blake Leathers is taking every advantage he can find as a student in UBalt’s online MBA program.
“Working 40 hours a week limits when and how I can do my work, but with the MBA being an online program, I can pretty much fit it in whenever,” he says. “A lot of the courses allow for you to plan however you want to.”
Leathers applied for UBalt’s MBA program to earn the kind of degree that would help him prove his commitment to his career. UBalt stood out to him because the MBA program could be completed online and the student body was diverse.
“We had individuals who were parents and some who were just fresh out of college from their undergraduate studies,” he says.
The distance hasn’t posed an issue with getting in touch with his professors when he has a question.
“I've actually had a couple courses by the same teacher, who, he's actually based in China so I typically get a lot of his emails early, early in the morning because of the time difference, but he's always made himself available.”
During the program, Leathers sought to enjoy another type of remote learning with his fellow Merrick School of Business classmates—a global field experience in Thailand.
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