Institutional Learning Outcomes

Program Core

• Demonstrate technical competency in financial accounting, taxation, communication, and information systems.
• Assess the financial transactions and business activities of governmental, not-for-profit, and business combinations.
• Evaluate accounting data for planning, evaluating performance, and coordinating organizational improvements.
• Demonstrate knowledge of internal controls and the ethical, legal, and regulatory responsibilities of auditors.

BAC CMA Concentration

• Evaluate financial statements from the managerial point of view.
• Perform comparative analyses using financial ratios to evaluate corporate performance.
• Assess the productivity of corporate assets, capital structure, and be able to select among competing sources of funds.
• Appraise and optimize the management of working capital.
• Distinguish the relationship between risk and return and the financial structure of the firm.
• Evaluate integrated approaches to enterprise risk management in order to identify, assess, and respond to organizational risks.
• Identify and analyze the risks presented by globalization, including international trade, the foreign exchange market, and balance of trade issues.

BAC CPA Concentration

• Demonstrate a technical competency in financial accounting, taxation, information systems, and auditing for governmental, not-for-profit, and combined organizations.
• Assess the financial transactions of governmental, not-for-profit, and combined organizations.
• Apply principles of federal income tax law to individuals, businesses, trusts and estates.

• Explain the implications of business theories in achieving business goals.
• Apply business concepts and techniques within the larger organizational decision-making context.
• Integrate concepts from other business disciplines into the larger context.

• Explain the implications of financial management theories in achieving business goals.
• Apply finance concepts and techniques within the larger organizational decision-making context.
• Synthetically integrate concepts from other business disciplines into the finance context.
• Accurately analyze financial data.
• Prepare an appropriate presentation of both financial data and the results of financial analyses.

• Demonstrate the in-depth knowledge necessary to design and implement appropriate workplace practices and human resource strategy in a global environment.
• Analyze the variety of factors that influence labor/management relations in an industry, national, and international context.

• Explain the implications of management theories in achieving business goals.
• Demonstrate how management concepts and techniques may be applied within the larger organizational decision-making context.
• Integrate concepts from other business disciplines into the management context.

• Apply marketing concepts and techniques within the larger organizational decision-making context.
• Integrate concepts from other business disciplines into the marketing context.
• Evaluate marketing decisions and recommend a course of action.

• Develop effective communication solutions for various organizational settings and situations.
• Acquire information to make data-driven decisions.
• Demonstrate an integrated knowledge of management tools, theories, and concepts.

• Develop critical thinking and problem solving strategies to solve technology problems.
• Develop methodologies for troubleshooting technical issues.
• Devise critical security and risk management strategies.
• Demonstrate consistent professional work ethic and integrity to achieve goals.
• Assess secure and efficient technology standards to achieve organizational goals.
• Implement secure and efficient technology standards to achieve organizational goals
• Research technologies to design solutions to solve problems.

BSIT Automotive Cybersecurity Concentration

• Develop critical thinking and problem solving strategies to solve cyber resiliency problems.
• Demonstrate strategic and tactical security approaches in cyber physical environments.

BSIT Business Information Systems Concentration

• Develop critical thinking and problem-solving strategies to solve technology problems with virtualized and cloud infrastructure.
• Develop methodologies for troubleshooting technical issues in virtualized and cloud infrastructure

BSIT Cybersecurity Concentration

• Devise critical security and risk management strategies to address cybersecurity issues.
• Assess secure and efficient technology standards to achieve organizational goals.
• Develop critical thinking and problem-solving strategies to solve cybersecurity problems.

BSIT Programming Concentration

• Construct programs in a variety of different programming languages.
• Build software programs utilizing industry standard tools.
• Develop software using security best practices and strategies.

BSIT Project Management Concentration (PMC)

• Differentiate among the processes and deliverables associated with the financial management of technology initiatives.
• Demonstrate the use of cost estimation, budgeting, and cost monitoring /control techniques as part of IT-focused financial management.
• Differentiate among the various agile project management frameworks.
• Develop and apply risk management strategies to achieve goals.

• Analyze business information as part of a dynamic system functioning in a complex, global world.
• Create solutions to address the business challenges faced by contemporary organizations.
• Demonstrate the leadership skills necessary for implementing and coordinating organizational activities and managing change.

• Utilize business information to solve problems through research, experimentation, and analysis.
• Create solutions to achieve organizational vision, strategy, and goals.
• Evaluate cyber initiatives for their alignment to organizational priorities and strategies.
• Synthesize critical security and risk management standards, strategies, and best practices for strategic security implementations.

• Utilize business information to solve problems through research, experimentation, and analysis.
• Create solutions to achieve organizational vision, strategy and goals.
• Design creative plans to address business problem.

• Analyze business information as part of a dynamic system functioning in a complex, global world.
• Create advanced engineering solutions to address a wide variety of mobility challenges.
• Design creative plans to address business problems.

• Demonstrate technical competency in financial accounting, taxation, communication, information systems, and analyze specific topics related to financial accounting using research techniques.
• Assess the financial transactions and business activities of governmental, not-for-profit, and business combinations and use research methodologies to gain new knowledge and analyze business situations.
• Evaluate accounting data for planning, evaluating performance, coordinating organizational improvements, and analyze related topics in a research project.
• Demonstrate knowledge of internal controls and the ethical, legal, and regulatory responsibilities of auditors and employ research techniques in a case study to analyze related topics.

MAC Data Analytics Concentration

• Examine the data science life cycle from data collection, storage, query, to results presentation.
• Evaluate various statistical analysis techniques that can be used to analyze data sets.
• Apply skills and knowledge in preparing data for analysis and conducting data queries.
• Assess the use of visualization and other presentation techniques.
• Examine the characteristics of big data and the distributed file system repository structure.

MAC Finance Concentration

• Analyze financial markets, investment theories, capital markets, and formulate strategies.
• Critically evaluate the theoretical and practical aspects of corporate finance.
• Critically evaluate the theoretical and practical aspects of risk in terms of investment returns and investment selections.
• Demonstrate their ability to acquire, analyze, and assess financial data in a wide variety of real-world situations
• Prepare and present financial data in a format that appropriately meets constituent needs.

MAC Taxation Concentration

• Demonstrate an expanded knowledge of the impact of tax laws in a corporate setting.
• Utilize advanced technical competency in tax process and procedures to address compliance issues.
• Integrate knowledge of basic tax research and relevant tax issues in the accurate preparation of tax documents.

• Appraise organizational needs to identify competitive advantage opportunities.
• Apply applicable research methods to solve organizational problems.
• Determine the appropriate analysis method based on data collected.
• Translate scientific results to present findings to stakeholders.
• Recommend actionable next steps based on research results.

• Interpret and apply the requisite conceptual and technical knowledge required in the fields of finance and economics.
• Formulate successful analysis, critique, and assessment of information underlying business decision making.
• Demonstrate appropriate research skills in identifying, collecting, categorizing, and assessing data.
• Apply industry appropriate interpersonal skills essential to creating business relationships and facilitating commercial activities.

• Formulate strategies to solve technology-related problems.
• Draw conclusions about how to solve technical problems through root cause analysis.
• Adapt critical security and risk management strategies for implementation.
• Synthesize best practices and standards for strategic and tactical security implementation.
• Appraise professional work ethic and integrity of oneself and others to achieve goals.
• Solve problems through research, experimentation, and analysis.
• Deliver clear and concise oral and written communications\presentations that synthesize complex information.

MSIT Cybersecurity Concentration

• Synthesize best practices and standards for strategic and tactical security implementations.
• Formulate strategies to solve security-related problems.

MSIT Data Science Concentration

• Adapt critical thinking strategies for data science and analysis implementation.
• Deliver clear and concise written and visual implementations that synthesize, transform and present data.
• Build data science implementations using industry standard tools.

• Locate and apply quantitative and qualitative management information to analyze and evaluate and make effective decisions regarding the organization, industry, and the national and global economic environment.
• Demonstrate an understanding of organizations as dynamic systems functioning in a world of globalization and complexity.
• Evaluate an organization’s functionality from a design perspective and make recommendations to align strategy, structure, and performance.
• Design creative solutions to business problems and develop sound business plans to accomplish these ideas.

MSM-General Management

• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge necessary to manage people and processes to advance an organization’s mission.

MSM Human Resource Management

• Demonstrate the in-depth knowledge necessary to assess, design, manage, implement, and evaluate appropriate workplace practices.
• Demonstrate the practical skills necessary to assess, design, manage, implement, and evaluate human resource strategy so that organizations can achieve a sustainable competitive advantage in a global environment.

MSM-Small Business Management/Entrepreneurship

• Demonstrate the in-depth knowledge and practical skills necessary to start up or purchase a small business.
• Demonstrate the in-depth knowledge and practical skills necessary to operate a business profitability and with sustainability in the market.

MSM-Strategic Leadership

• Evaluate the individual, group, and organizational learning processes.
• Assess the impact of the variety of learning processes on an organization’s ability to develop a strategically-focused organizational culture.

• Identify and analyze the range of marketing initiatives employed in various industries.
• Analyze marketing data to ascertain the past and current effectiveness of the marketing process.
• Construct an effective marketing plan, designed to appropriately address the variety of internal and external issues facing an organization.

• Apply a comprehensive knowledge of the practical application of tax laws and tax theory to individuals, businesses, trusts and estates.
• Analyze the role of legal and tax authorities in matters of general tax practice.
• Integrate the relevant legal and tax authorities, facts, analysis and conclusions into applicable tax research and tax compliance.
• Propose ethical solutions to problems in tax practice.
• Evaluate alternative strategies for achieving common business goals on the basis of tax advantages and disadvantages.

• Students will be able to integrate concepts from both business and non-business disciplines to generate strategies and practical approaches that address global business issues.
• Students will be able to identify inter-relational aspects of management, finance, economics, accountancy, technology, and marketing.
• Students will be able to conduct original research to identify and solve complex business problems and contribute to the body of knowledge.

• Develop the capacity to determine and organization’s project, product, and portfolio management efforts.
• Acquire the ability to prepare and deliver project deliverables that include financial, technology, and project information to constituents.
• Develop proficiency in the four phases of project and program management: preparing, starting, progressing, and achieving.

• Demonstrate the in-depth knowledge necessary to assess, design, manage, implement, and evaluate appropriate workplace practices.
• Demonstrate the practical skills necessary to assess, design, manage, implement, and evaluate human resource strategy so that organizations can achieve a sustainable competitive advantage in a global environment.

• Plan and execute strategic communication for diverse stakeholders.