MBA

The Oregon State MBA seeks to develop students into leaders ready to tackle the challenges of today’s global business environment. This is accomplished through the following learning goals and objectives:

Integrative experience and experiential learning

  • Analyze and synthesize information across disciplines/functions in order to evaluate business opportunities and make sound business decisions.

Social, legal and ethical responsibilities of organizations and society

  • Analyze the impact of an enterprise on its various stakeholders using deontological and consequential lenses.
  • Demonstrate awareness of the current U.S. legal and global regulatory business environment.

Effect of global environment on business

  • Demonstrate comprehension of cultural commonalities and differences in international business activities and customs.
  • Develop effective management techniques for cross-cultural business.

Strategic and innovative thinking and analysis skills to enable effective opportunity identification, problem solving, and decision-making

  • Demonstrate and apply appropriate management science and statistical tools to analyze business conditions.
  • Evaluate business environment and opportunities and devise strategies for responding effectively to problems, threats, and opportunities.

Effective oral, written, and presentation communication skills

  • Construct and communicate a logical, relevant, and professional quantitative assessment of business information in an effective manner.
  • Construct and communicate a logical, relevant, and professional qualitative assessment of business information in an effective manner.

Team participation and leadership

  • Summarize and apply theories of effective leadership.
  • Summarize and apply theories of team composition, process, and motivation (including inclusivity and diversity) to effectively manage work teams.

Master of Science in Business 

  • Analyze the impact of an enterprise on its various stakeholders.
  • Propose and collect data necessary to inform a discipline-based evaluation of a complex business challenge.
  • Apply critical thinking skills to a business challenge in the presence of uncertainty and ambiguity.
  • Organize and present in written and oral form a persuasive and comprehensive evaluation of a business challenge.