Learning for Leadership

The MBA Program at Eastern Illinois University is an AACSB accredited graduate program that prepares students for employment in positions of leadership in small and large businesses, industry, government, and non-profit organizations in a contemporary global environment. The program emphasizes the application of analytical tools and related skills that are essential for making informed business decisions.

Learning for Excellence

The dedicated faculty seeks to foster excellence, creativity, and innovation through a responsive, dynamic, challenging, and culturally diverse learning environment, with a focus on experiential and applied learning and research.

Learning for Life

The program promotes and expects ethical behavior in all aspects of professional work and prepares its students for life-long discovery and professional fulfillment in a global economy.

Upon completion of the MBA program...Graduates possess critical and creative thinking skills to solve problems, identify opportunities and make reliable decisions in routine and unfamiliar or unpredictable domestic and global environments using generally accepted concepts of business (financial, accounting, management, operations, marketing, and information systems).

1. Graduates can incorporate into their business decisions an appreciation for social responsibility, legal and ethical requirements, and corporate governance.
2. Graduates can use quantitative and qualitative tools to identify business problems and opportunities showing an appreciation for the interrelationships of finance, accounting, management, operations, marketing, and information systems.
3. Graduates can use information technologies to support the structure and processes of the organization.
4. Graduates can demonstrate effective leadership and collaboration skills for making decisions and accomplishing goals.
5. Graduates have developed an appreciation of the impact of human behavior on the organization and can coordinate and manage to achieve the goals of the organization.
6. Graduates can demonstrate appropriate written and oral communication competencies that support and enhance managerial effectiveness.
7. Graduates can develop a strategic plan with consideration for the dynamic and sometimes unpredictable domestic and global business environments.

Graduates have developed an appreciation for the need to continue their professional development throughout their careers.