46 states, 56 countries represented in UI iMBA's first graduating class - Adalberto Toledo, News Gazette

On Saturday, May 12th, the University of Illinois hosted a graduation ceremony for dozens of MBA students who may have never set foot on campus before. These aren't your typical MBA students. They're "iMBA" students, part of an online-only, UI-taught MBA program, and 73 percent of them don't live in Illinois. Most of these mothers, veterans and first-generation college students have life constraints preventing them from doing traditional coursework on campus. The average student brings 12 years of professional experience and is between 22 and 61 years old. http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2018-05-09/46-states-56-countries-represented-ui-imbas-first-graduating-class.html