When it comes to scheduling courses, experts say, the top online MBA programs give students greater flexibility than they would find on a physical campus.
专家们表示，相较于实体课堂，顶级MBA网络课程在课程安排上给予学生更大灵活性。
Pursuing an MBA seemed like a good career move for Julianna Cagle, a development officer at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. But she simply couldn't commit to in-person programs nearby.
朱莉安娜·卡格尔是亚特兰大儿童保健护理中心的发展主任。对她来说，攻读一个MBA学位似乎能让自己的事业更进一步，但是她无法去就近的学校参加课程。
She turned to online learning, which she says provides her with experiences she would have also received at a physical campus: opportunities for collaboration with classmates, live class sessions with professors and support services to meet her needs.
Cagle selected MBA@UNC, the online program offered through the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School, which ranks No. 3 in U.S. News' Best Online MBA Programs.
于是她决定在线学习。她说，网络课程和实体课堂没什么区别：一样都能有机会和同学合作、与教授互动，也一样可以获得辅助服务以满足自己的需求。卡格尔选择了美国排名第三的MBA网络课程——由北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校克南-弗拉格勒学院提供。
"It is designed specifically for working professionals and people who do have lives outside of school," she says.
“这是专门为上班族和生活在学校之外的人设计的”，她说。
Cagle is in good company, as business administration remains the top discipline pursued by online graduate students, according to a 2015 survey by the Learning House and Aslanian Market Research.
卡格尔这样的人还有很多。根据美国教育服务公司The Learning House和Aslanian Market Research的2015年研究报告显示，工商管理是在线研究生攻读最多的一个类别。
"We compete in a very open market for good talent," says Phil Powell, faculty chair of online graduate programs at the Indiana University—Bloomington Kelley School of Business, the No. 2-ranked online MBA program. "The fact that our competition is fierce, open and that our students demand very high value and pay very high tuition, means we have to be responsive and adopt newer teaching methods faster than other parts of academia."
印第安纳大学——伯明顿分校凯利商学院（其MBA网络课程排名第二）在线研究生项目负责人菲尔·鲍威尔说；“我们处在一个极度开放的人才竞争环境中。我们的竞争十分激烈和开放，所以我们的学生支付非常昂贵的学费，追求极高的价值。也正因为此，我们必须能做出较快反应，吸收最新的教学方法。”
In the programs offered through Kelley, UNC and Temple University's Fox School of Business – the latter of which ranks No. 1 among online MBA programs – nearly all enrolled students have careers of their own. Some also have children.
在凯利商学院、北卡罗来纳大学和天普大学福克斯商学院（后者提供排名第一的MBA网络课程）的课程中，几乎所有学生都有自己的事业。还有一些连孩子都有了。
For Cagle, mother to eight-month-old twin boys, the MBA@UNC program was flexible, allowing students to "tailor each quarter to their own lifestyle and their work-life balance." She can take as many or few classes as she wants each term, and watch lectures on her own time.
卡格尔是一对八岁双胞胎的妈妈，读北卡罗来纳大学的网络课程对她来说再合适不过，因为她能够“根据自己生活和工作的需要自主安排时间”。每个学期，她想学多少课程就学多少，然后平时再看看讲课视频。
Here's what prospective online learners should expect in a top-ranked online MBA program, according to experts and students, when it comes to class format, work-life balance and virtual group collaboration.
在专家及学生们看来，从课程安排角度而言，顶级MBA网络课程最让人期待的，应该是工作和生活的平衡以及在线小组合作。
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