Our Mission

The College of Business is a professional school whose primary purpose is to prepare its students to become competent and responsible managers who are principled and moral leaders. To accomplish this purpose, we select and retain a diverse and talented faculty and staff. We encourage our faculty to engage in real world practices that support their teaching and research agendas. Our faculty emphasize teaching and learning and engage in basic, applied, and pedagogical research.

The mission of the College’s undergraduate business programs is to build a foundation for students’ life-long development of the intellectual, moral, and professional capacity necessary to lead profit and not-for-profit organizations effectively. Accordingly, the College’s programs shall foster an environment where students can learn the fundamentals of business in the context of becoming an ethical and effective decision-maker. Appropriate to a liberal education, the College’s programs shall strive to be innovative in their course and concentration offerings to provide opportunity for intensive study. The College’s undergraduate programs stand united with the Constantin undergraduate college in our shared mission to prepare students for a meaningful and fulfilling life’s work, whether through immediate career entry or through further education in graduate and professional schools.

The Graduate School of Management is a professional school that strives to endow its graduates with the skills and practical wisdom essential to the successful practice of management. Serving a domestic and international community of students and organizations, GSM endeavors to help its students accomplish their professional objectives by providing high-quality, practice-oriented, convenient management education. GSM seeks to prepare its students in a wide variety of management specialties and to serve a range of industries, primarily providing management education at the master's degree level. GSM understands that its historic ability to find innovative and effective ways of meeting these student needs is a unique competency that is essential to the school’s future success.