University at Buffalo School of Management

Spring 2025 Buffalo Business 7 Online programs by the numbers The School of Management's online degree programs have been available for just over a year, but their reach and impact have quickly expanded. Here are a few fast facts about the programs so far: 2 Degree programs offered (MBA and MS in Business Analytics — with more to come!) 14 Number of states online students call home 76% Enrollment growth from Fall 2023 to Fall 2024 400+ Students currently enrolled 6-1-25 Date when the first online students will graduate 25% Faculty teaching online courses Bernadine Regis, who works as a bus dispatcher for Trailways of New York in New York City, has become friends with Kim Hutter through the Online MBA program, and they were in the same group for the project management class. "We were surprised how well we were able to work as a team, even with having people in New York, Buffalo and California," says Regis. "But we all came together to make it work. Minecra was the platform, everyone had a task to do and we were able to complete the project. It worked out brilliantly." Regis says she took the skills she developed and immediately applied them at work. "This is a new job for me, but even in my second week I felt like I'd been at it for a month because so many of the topics we covered are helping me," she said. Simpson says the defining char- acteristic of any project is that there's a distinct beginning and an end — and that an aer-party is a tradition from project management. So, MGO 634 students returned to Minecra to close things out with a bang. Course leaders advanced the time to an evening setting and lit the public spaces with lanterns. Meanwhile, students decorated their working spaces for the event, like the Halloween theme that Hutter and Regis applied to their Underground Ballroom. "It's important to take a moment to celebrate and have closure, and the aer-party was our way of making that happen in this class," says Simpson. This course is just one example of how School of Management fac- ulty are thinking outside the box to deliver online programs in innova- tive ways. To learn more about the school's Online MBA and Online MS in Business Analytics programs, visit management.buffalo.edu/online. Students Kim Hutter and Bernadine Regis (seen here as their Minecraft avatars Snoopys0302 and Willow7099) decorated the underground portion of their ballroom with a Halloween theme in anticipation of visitors during the after-party. Teams used this map to find their designated work area and navigated streets named after those found on UB's North Campus.

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