Graduate Learning Goals

Professional Master of Business Administration (Professional MBA)

• Exhibit effective presentational and interpersonal communication skills.
• Exhibit effective critical thinking skills.
• Exhibit the capacity to effectively marshal human resources, both in a leading and in a collegial teaming role.
• Exhibit the ability to identify, measure, interpret, and incorporate relevant information in analyzing problems and making effective business decisions.
• Exhibit the ability to recognize ethical and legal issues and to respond appropriately.

Bridge Master of Business Administration (Bridge MBA)

• Understand, integrate, and apply substantive knowledge in a global context.
• Identify opportunities and problems, generate alternatives, and justify recommendations.
• Recognize and address moral and ethical challenges, and defend a course of action.
• Communicate effectively across audiences and modes.
• Develop self-awareness, demonstrate effective interpersonal skills, and identify one’s vocational purpose.

Master of Science in Finance (MSF)

• Quantify the relation between risk and return and apply it in value-maximizing financial activities of individuals and corporations (in global, ethical context).
• Choose and be proficient in applying financial tools and analytical methods to improve financial decision-making.
• Effectively communicate and justify, in both written and oral form, results and recommendations of financial analysis to audiences having varying degrees of financial sophistication.

Master of Professional Accounting (MPAC)

• Analyze and evaluate costing systems, prepare master budgets, evaluate managerial performance, evaluate management control systems, and provide decision support for cost management, and other operational and strategic managerial decisions.
• Analyze transaction cycles and accounting processes, evaluate risk, and recommend internal controls for accounting processes.
• Use software to improve efficiency and internal control, analyze data, and support decision-making.
• Analyze and communicate the effects of tax rules on partnerships and corporations, and prepare advanced tax returns based on research of pertinent authority to answer tax questions.
• Prepare and evaluate financial statements according to generally accepted accounting principles and identify, explain, research, resolve, and communicate related accounting issues, including ethical implications of alternatives.
• Perform in-depth analysis of financial systems and statements, and write a report on the performance, financial condition, management effectiveness, financial risks, and valuation.
• Demonstrate skills and abilities relevant to the accounting profession, including effective writing and oral communications and working effectively in teams.
• Be sensitive about and involved with the needs of communities beyond the boundaries of their professional community.

 Leadership Executive Master of Business Administration (LEMBA and HLEMBA)

• Students will demonstrate strategic decision-making capability.
• Students are capable of rigorous analysis of data and stakeholder concerns.
• Students will demonstrate the ability to articulate a vision that will have significant and positive leadership impact (i.e., leading change).
• In business and in personal lives, students will act to preserve or enhance the well being of the commons (global, health, and social justice).
• Demonstrate wisdom through judgment/decision-making that integrates the needs of multiple stakeholders and adapts personal behavior appropriately.