About Us
Whether you are an entering freshman or a seasoned MBA student, the School of Business will provide you with the cutting-edge skills and knowledge that will allow you to succeed at every stage of your career – from excelling in your first job, to discovering new professions and opportunities as technologies and business models evolve.
From Day One
You will dive deeply into your program, while working with students from other disciplines, simulating what you will experience in the workplace. You will interact with students across majors and graduate programs, challenging each other to use creativity as well as analytics to conceive of new, valuable, market-driven products and services.
As you earn your degree, you’ll benefit from unique advantages such as study abroad, internships with regional business and collaboration on real projects with industry leaders to build valuable connections that can last a lifetime.
Academic Programs
Undergraduate
Graduate
- Business (MBA) on-campus
- Business (MBA) online
- Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (MS)
- Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (MS)
- Organizational Leadership (MS)
- Taxation (MS)
Accelerated Online Undergraduate
- Business Administration (BS)
- Human Resource Management (BS)
- Information Technology Management (BS)
- Organizational Leadership (BS)
Graduate Certificates
DEC Curriculum
The DEC curriculum offers intensive transdisciplinary skills development with the opportunity to practice and apply those skills in the context of students’ own discipline. It includes three core courses: Finding and Shaping Opportunity, Systems Thinking and Sustainability, and Research Methods, that culminate in a fourth, integrated senior capstone project. Each course fosters collaboration among designers, engineers, and business majors giving students a breadth of expertise that goes beyond the boundaries of a traditional degree. This approach aggressively addresses changes in the 21st-century work world, where a sophisticated interdisciplinary understanding makes young professionals more effective in their own field of expertise, and enhances their ability to lead and succeed.
Finding and Shaping Opportunity
- This course introduces principles of design thinking as a key element of innovation. Students will learn how parts of traditional design process can be used to reveal opportunity, and how to shape that opportunity by critically and creatively evaluating its components as part of a larger system. As a culminating assignment, students will work collaboratively with peers from other disciplines to create real-world value in an economic, social, and environmental context by innovating a new model for business that is both desirable and viable. This course is designated as creativity intensive.
Systems Thinking and Sustainability
- The field of sustainability will be surveyed using the lens of Systems Thinking. Students will be introduced to the rate and scale of environmental impacts resulting from climate change, our industrial food system, and waste accumulation in linear models of production, with case studies considered from multiple perspectives and disciplines. Students will develop systems models to identify key feedbacks and interactions among factors. A final team-based inquiry-driven project will involve analysis of a focal area of choice, to characterize sustainability challenges and opportunities for focused interventions, with consideration of social equity dimensions and model limitations.
Research Methods
- This writing intensive course explores a range of research tools to analyze human belief, behavior, and cultural practices, and the systems which they drive and are affected by to inform planning and critical inquiry. Students will learn to formulate appropriate research strategies and questions for conducting quantitative and qualitative research to explore a variety of approaches that address contemporary issues around all aspects of sustainability (economic, social, environmental, technical. Students will consider ethical, empathetic, and contextual sensitivities at all stages of the research process, from planning through to analysis and interpretation. They will convey their findings through multi-modal means of communication as appropriate to the content and purpose of their research.