
Learning Goals
Undergraduate Programs
The undergraduate program in the Ivy College of Business has five learning goals.
Upon graduation, our undergraduate students will:
- Be effective communicators
- Be effective collaborators
- Be problem solvers
- Understand business concepts
- Recognize ethical and legal responsibilities to organizations
Graduate Programs
Each of the graduate programs in the college has specific learning goals.
Upon graduation, master of accounting students will:
- Be critical, creative thinkers about accounting problems
- Be effective communicators
- Work with others as a member of a team
- Have awareness and sensitivity to dealing with ethical concerns
Upon graduation, MBA students will:
- Demonstrate effective communication skills
- Effectively lead and work in diverse teams
- Critically solve business problems
- Integrate ethical and global perspectives in decision making
Upon graduation, executive MBA students will:
- Be effective leaders
- Be effective collaborators
- Be critical thinkers in food, agriculture, and biosystems
- Recognize ethical and global responsibilities around food, agriculture, and biosystems
Upon graduation, master of business analytics students will:
- Be analytics modelers
- Be problem solvers in analytics
- Be evaluators of analytics
- Be critical thinkers in analytics
- Be collaborators in big data and analytics
- Be effective communicators
Upon graduation, master of entrepreneurship students will:
- Identify and grow core capacity for entrepreneurship
- Develop and test business ideas
- Identify and secure key stakeholder relationships
- Strategically position and launch new ventures
- Design and implement strategic plans, processes, and systems for innovation
Upon graduation, master of finance students will:
- Be critical thinkers in finance
- Have a broad understanding of financial concepts
- Have strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Have a strong background in ethical development
Upon graduation, master of healthcare analytics and operations students will:
- Identify and apply theories, models, frameworks, and practices to healthcare operations, in order to address healthcare management challenges.
- Identify, clean, manipulate, and analyze healthcare data, in order to address healthcare management challenges.
- Identify and apply the appropriate analytics tools to healthcare management data in order to draw and convey appropriate conclusions to healthcare management problems.
- Synthesize healthcare data and information from multiple sources into comprehensive solutions to healthcare management problems.
Upon graduation, master of science information systems students will:
- Work effectively in teams
- Be critical thinkers in the field of information systems
- Develop an awareness of the ethical dimensions and consequences of business decisions
- Have strong written communication skills
- Have strong oral communication skills
Upon graduation, master of real estate development students will:
- Be knowledgeable in various aspects of real estate
- Be critical thinkers in real estate
- Be innovators in real estate
- Be leaders in real estate