Sumaiya Sultana Mahaboob Basha, a graduate scholar majoring in enterprise administration from Chennai, India, obtained her bachelor’s diploma in India, however after a promotion at her job she was confronted with an fascinating scenario.

“It was a long journey, I was actually working at IT company in India and within six months I was promoted,” Sultana mentioned. “After working for two months, I figured out I was going to need more business knowledge to become better. After researching universities, I found Nac and loved how it felt like country living.” 

A scenario that’s outdoors of the standard conditions that carry college students to SFA. Nevertheless, being at SFA has been fairly pleasing for Sultana, even noting the constructive results that coming to SFA has had on her well being. 

“I was near the beach in the city I was in before. It has a busy city feel with not a lot of open space and had a lot of pollution,” Sultana mentioned. “I used to have really bad sinuses, but after getting to SFA, the air is much better here and so they’ve almost completely gone away.” 

Sultana has been fairly busy with schoolwork and her first step into broadening her horizons was talking with the Pine Log. She additionally has discovered group of mates and has discovered a option to carry collectively her tradition and American tradition. 

“The culture here is very different, in India you don’t talk to people unless you know them,” Sultana mentioned. “Here when you see someone you actually say hello even if you don’t know them. In four months, I got a best friend, she was the first girl that asked me to sit next to her in class and I’m grateful for that. I even invited a few friends to my home just to have Indian cuisine.” 

Whether it’s outdoors of lessons or inside lessons, Sultana has discovered a option to connect her worldwide standing to these round her. Dr. Matthew Lindsey, division chair and professor for administration and advertising, attributed distinctive class expertise to Sultanas totally different perspective. 

“It is always interesting to have students with an international background in our MBA graduate classes,” Dr. Lindsey mentioned. “Students like Sumaiya certainly bring a different perspective to our discussions either from a different viewpoint on pressing issues or from different life experiences.  She is always willing to share her life experiences with the class and let us know another way of looking at a subject.” 

The expertise at SFA has been a memorable one for Sultana. She cited a couple of issues that has been extraordinarily pleasing for her and what she plans to do after leaving SFA 

“The learning has been great here. In India it was uncommon to have homework, but here we have homework and projects a lot of the time,” Sultana mentioned. “I have started to interview for internships this summer and if things went well, I would love to work in the United States. If not, I still have a job offer from my old company.”