Business

Program Objectives

The goal of our IACBE accredited Business Administration program with a Leadership, Organization, and Management concentration is to provide high-quality, high-value, and practical educational experiences that prepare our students for management careers in business and high-demand business professions. For transfer students, we offer a unique transfer-friendly Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) in Business completion degree. Students may also consider pursuing our minors in business and global food and agribusiness.

Recognizing the demand for access and career pathways, we offer a unique Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) which is our Bachelor’s completion degree program leading to supervisory and management roles within one’s technical fields and available for students who have successfully completed an Associate of Applied Science degree.

Learning Outcomes

Content Knowledge: Students will demonstrate functional knowledge of the concepts, vocabulary, principles, and practices that are commonly used in the business environment.
Communication Skills: Students will demonstrate advanced communication skills using appropriate methodologies and technologies.
Critical Thinking and Analytical Reasoning Skills: Students will demonstrate critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills.
Personal and Social Responsibility: Students will demonstrate an ability to incorporate diverse cultural perspectives, and ethical reasoning and action into decision-making.
Inquiry and Integrated Learning: Students will demonstrate the ability to design and carry out an individual project that emphasizes practical applications of business concepts.

Means of Assessment

Appropriately planned assessments ensure outcomes are being met and learners are effectively learning. Each class in the business degree has been carefully developed to deliver appropriate, applicable content relevant to the continually changing field of business. The stated learning outcomes in each class break the higher-order skills of business into compartmentalized fundamental skills. To measure content quality, student understanding as well as productive teaching methods, assessment instruments are used in each class and then affirmed through further review through the overall assessment of program outcomes. At the time of degree completion, the final stage of assessment will be the student’s ability to reflect organize, and demonstrate learned skills in the culminating course in the business degree. Assessment results are compiled and submitted to our Business program accrediting body, IACBE.

Graduate Program Information

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) online degree applies the appropriate quantitative and qualitative principles to diagnose and solve complex problems with strategic decisions. Students will communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in a variety of settings, and in a multitude of roles. Students will learn to identify, analyze, and formulate solutions to ethical dilemmas addressing the needs of various stakeholders., develop creative and innovative solutions to unstructured problems, assess and apply effective leadership theories, styles, and skills, and evaluate and apply organizational principles in a global environment.

Programs

Master of Business Administration

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