I don't want people to tell me when I've gone as far as I can in my career. I want
to be able to make that decision for myself. To do that, I knew I would need to gain
practical work experience and continue to learn, grow and adapt along the way. I found
that an MBA from UD would help me accomplish this.
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The UD graduate business program provides instant credibility and helps me make the
best possible decisions for my business thanks to the insights I've received.
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Brian Shelburne, MBA Student
With six Fortune 500 companies headquartered within a 5-mile radius of UD talented people come here from every corner of the world. As a student, I get to share a classroom and collaborate with many of the same people from these organizations.
How have you used what you have learned at UD in your current career?
The ultimate goal for receiving an MBA was to start my own business. Before even completing my degree, I've already designed and implemented a business model from work I've done in class. The program has been invaluable in providing structure to a business that sprouted from common interests and organic relationships.
As an entrepreneur it provides me expertise in managing a growing enterprise while taking care of my employees and clients in a sustainable way. As a professional the UD graduate business program provides instant credibility and helps me make the best possible decisions for my business thanks to the insights I've received.
Most of my classmates are in their mid-30s and have significant experience in a variety of different industries. Each professor at UD not only has an advanced degree but also has several years of work experience in the business world. This cumulative business knowledge creates a great dynamic in the classroom as colleagues relating their stories to the concepts we're all learning about.
For subjects I have less experience with I prefer to be in the classroom. Establishing a relationship with a professor can be invaluable if I need something explained a different way or if I am struggling with a concept. However, I with running a business in addition to my full time job the flexibility that online courses afford is invaluable to me being able to juggle the different roles of my life simultaneously.
My objective has always been to launch my own business after completing my MBA degree. In my first semester, during an online course, I indicated this when introducing myself to the class. The professor took note and because of mutual interests, without any strings attached, he offered to help me get my business off the ground. I'm already building the way towards my goals and applying what I'm learning along the way.
UD students not only read St. Augustine's Confessions in Rome, traveling to Ostia to marvel at the place in which, according to Book IX, St. Augustine and his mother, St. Monica, had a joint mystical vision of God -- they also travel 4.4 miles from the Irving campus to read the text with residents of South Irving.
+ Read MoreAs you know if you’ve read even some of our first UD Reads book, "All the Light We Cannot See," it’s possible to build a radio from random, scavenged parts, as long as you can find the necessary random, scavenged parts, as Werner does in the book. This is also essentially what Assistant Professor and Department Chair of Physics Jacob Moldenhauer did as well: He scavenged parts from the Physics Department, and built a radio.
+ Read MoreThe University of Dallas Board of Trustees announced today that it has unanimously selected Thomas S. Hibbs, Ph.D., BA '82 MA '83, to serve as the university's ninth president. The first alumnus of UD to be president, Hibbs has served as dean of the Honors College and distinguished professor of ethics and culture at Baylor University since 2003.
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