The MBA program is designed to develop candidates for positions of leadership in modern organizations.
Objective
Analytical Skills
A graduate of the MBA program will have the analytical skills necessary to function in the current business environment.
Indicator
Quantitative Skills
Students will have an understanding of financial, statistical and other quantitative techniques used in business decision making.
Criterion
Quantitative Skills
A majority of the graduate students will indicate on the Graduate Program Capstone Survey that the program increased their quantitative skills.
Indicator
Critical Thinking Skills
Students will take the Texas Assessment of Critical Thinking Skills (TACTS) in BAN568, a required course.
Criterion
TACTS scores
The average score on the TACTS test will be statistically significantly higher than the undergraduate average score.
Finding
TACTS Results
The graduate students scored statistically significantly higher than the undergraduate students on the TACTS instrument with a mean score of 17.16 compared to a mean score of 13.78.
Indicator
Strategic Analysis
Students will take MGT567 to achieve an understanding of strategic management and policy.
Criterion
Strategic Analysis
A majority of the graduate students will indicate on the Graduate Program Capstone Survey that the program increased their ability to perform a strategic analysis.
Indicator
Skills To Organize, Process, And Interpret Data
Students will be able to organize, process and interpret data to provide options for decision-making.
Criterion
Skills to Organize, Process, and Interpret Data
A majority of the graduate students will indicate on the Graduate Program Capstone Survey that the program increased their ability to organize, process, and interpret data.
Indicator
Ability To Resolve Ethical Issues
Students will be able to identify ethical issues and apply value-based reasoning systems to ethical questions.
Criterion
Addressing Ethical Concerns
A majority of the graduate students will indicate on the Graduate Program Capstone Survey that the program increased their understanding of ethical issues.
Finding
Ethical Issues
88.6% of the graduating students indicated that the MBA program increased their understanding of ethical issues.
Action
Ethical Issues
We are developing additional methods of measuring this criteria.
Action
Critical Thinking Skills
The TACTS critical thinking instrument will continue to be administered to graduate students in the BAN568 class. The instrument continues to be evaluated in an effort to improve its reliability and validity.
Objective
Interpersonal Skills
A graduate of the MBA program will have the interpersonal skills necessary to work with all types of people in a wide variety of settings.
Indicator
Team-building And Leadership Skills
Students will be able to work with groups/teams so as to lead, influence, organize, and delegate tasks, to motivate and develop people, and to withstand and resolve conflict.
Indicator
Ability To Deal With Diversity
Students will have the ability to interact with culturally and intellectually diverse people.
Criterion
Ability to Deal With Diversity
A majority of the graduate students will indicate on the Graduate Program Capstone Survey that the program increased their understanding of diversity issues.
Objective
Communication Skills
A graduate of the MBA program will have the ability to communicate effectively.
Indicator
Communication Skills
Students will be able to present, discuss, and defend views effectively through formal and informal, written and spoken language.
Criterion
Communication Skills
A majority of the graduate students will indicate on the Graduate Program Capstone Survey that the program increased their ability present, discuss, and defend their views.
Criterion
Data Skills
A majority of the graduate students will indicate on the Graduate Program Capstone Survey that the program increased their ability to locate, obtain, organize, and use informaiton.
Indicator
Data Skills
Students will have the ability to locate, obtain, organize, and use information from human, print, and electronic sources.
Objective
Organizational And Business Knowledge
A graduate of the MBA program will have a greater depth of knowledge of the tools, practices, and procedures used in today's business environment than undergraduates.
Indicator
Business Environment Knowledge
Students wil have developed a knowledge of the activities of business, government, and nonprofit organizations, and of the environments in which they operate, including the major economic, legal, political, social, and cultural forces and their influences.
Indicator
Basic Business Knowledge
Students will have developed a greater depth of knowledge of the basic business disciplines by completing the following core courses: ACC 564, BAN 568, 500-level ECO course, GBA 587, FIN 531, 500-level MGT course, MGT 567, and MKT 570.