SACS Reaffirmation
| Objective | Analytical Skills | |
| A graduate of the MBA program will have the analytical skills necessary to function in the current business environment. Associated Goals: Develop Business Leaders |
| Indicator | Ability To Resolve Ethical Issues Students will be able to identify ethical issues and apply value-based reasoning systems to ethical questions. |
| Criteria | 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. |
| Indicator | Critical Thinking Skills Students will take the Texas Assessment of Critical Thinking Skills (TACTS) in BAN568, a required course. |
| Criteria | 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 | Quantitative Skills Students will have an understanding of financial, statistical and other quantitative techniques used in business decision making. |
| Criteria | Quantitative Skills A majority of the graduate students will indicate on the Graduate Program Capstone Survey that the program increased their quantitative skills. |
| Indicator | Skills To Organize, Process, And Interpret Data Students will be able to organize, process and interpret data to provide options for decision-making. |
| Criteria | 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 | Strategic Analysis Students will take MGT567 to achieve an understanding of strategic management and policy. |
| Criteria | 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. |
| 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. |
| Action | Ethical Issues We are developing additional methods of measuring this criteria. |
| Objective | Communication Skills | |
| A graduate of the MBA program will have the ability to communicate effectively. Associated Goals: Develop Business Leaders |
| Indicator | Communication Skills Students will be able to present, discuss, and defend views effectively through formal and informal, written and spoken language. |
| Criteria | 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. |
| Criteria | 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 | 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. Associated Goals: Develop Business Leaders |
| Indicator | Ability To Deal With Diversity Students will have the ability to interact with culturally and intellectually diverse people. |
| Criteria | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. Associated Goals: Develop Business Leaders |
| 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. |
| 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. |