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Dean's Academy

Benefit from honors curricula, smaller class sizes and exclusive access to thought leaders in business and the community.

The Dean’s Academy is an invitation-based experience with academic standards of achievement for these majors: accountancy, apparel design, business administration, business information systems, design and innovation management, finance, interior design, management, marketing, merchandising management, or supply chain and logistics management. Please discuss this with your College of Business advisor.

Benefits:

  • Core business classes with honors-level curriculum
  • Smaller classes with Dean’s Academy peers
  • Invitations from the dean to attend exclusive forums, seminars, and events.
  • Exclusive career development and networking opportunities, such as “How to Stand Out in a Crowd” workshops
  • A transcript visible degree option

Overview

The Dean’s Academy is an academic forum for high-achieving first-year students, transfer students, and current undergraduate students on the Corvallis campus who wish to maximize the educational and experiential aspects of their college experience.

With designated smaller class sizes and access to exclusive leadership events, Dean's Academy students are invited into an educational process designed to encourage intellectual curiosity and active community engagement, and to develop standout graduates who are visionaries and responsible citizens.

Option
Online
In-Person: Corvallis
Bachelor of Science
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Associated majors

You can pursue the dean's academy option with the following declared majors:

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Minor
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Accounting

Today's accountants are tech-savvy problem solvers, insightful planners and strategic thinkers. Many of the “number-crunching” tasks formerly thought to be part of an accountant's world have long ago been replaced by sophisticated software.

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Undergraduate
Major
Apparel Design

Turn your creative passion into a career; as an apparel design student, you’ll develop skills essential to moving an idea from concept to creation, including ideation, hand and digital sketching, fabric print design, paper and digital pattern making, draping, garment construction, fit evaluation, the development of factory specifications, along

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Undergraduate
Major
Business Administration

Get ready to be a problem-solver, decision-maker and leader who can identify opportunities to evaluate the success of any organization.

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Undergraduate
Major
Business Analytics

More and more, data is driving business decisions, and companies need experts to derive insights from their data sets. Business analytics is a rapidly growing and highly in-demand skill. According to the U.S.

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Undergraduate
Major
Minor
Business Information Systems

Business and technology go together intrinsically. As businesses continue to improve their competitive advantage, information systems such as databases, web services and business applications are supplying strategic and operational opportunities for business leadership and decision-making.

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Undergraduate
Major
Minor
Design & Innovation Management

Are you a creative-thinker who can help a business or organization be a leader in design and innovation? Are you interested in working with multi-disciplinary teams on tackling creative challenges?

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Undergraduate
Major
Minor
Finance

Finance is harnessing the power of money to make things happen. Effective financing enables life-saving research, ground-breaking engineering and building of infrastructure on which communities and nations depend.

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Undergraduate
Major
Interior Design

Our interior design major explores how spaces look, feel and function. Using a human-centered approach, students learn how the design of the built environment impacts our productivity, health and emotions. We prepare critical thinkers who can work both independently and as effective members of design teams.

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Undergraduate
Major
Minor
Marketing

Think about the most impressive marketing campaign you’ve ever seen. It might have come from brands like Nike, Apple or Coca-Cola. These brands have achieved greatness with the help of a strong marketing strategy. This is what you'll study — the science of consumers, product and communication to build strong, successful brands.

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Undergraduate
Major
Minor
Certificate
Microcredential
Organizational Leadership

Planning, organizing, leading, taking initiative … does that sound like you? If you want a career where leading others and managing change effectively are your keys to advancement, look no further than organizational leadership.

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Undergraduate
Major
Minor
Supply Chain & Logistics Management

Trade, manufacturing, sourcing, global production — every item you touch and use, from your toothbrush to your telephone — has a complex story of parts and pieces that brought the functioning item to you; supply chain and logistics management provides you with the knowledge to optimize how all these parts come together and when developed, in fro

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Ways to attend

We offer our programs in the modalities that work for you and your schedule.

In-person: Corvallis

Attend classes in Austin Hall, the $50 million, 100,000-square-foot building with five research centers, a marketing research suite, 10 classrooms, 23 computer- and teleconference-equipped project rooms, a 250-seat auditorium, a café and faculty offices.

Online: Ecampus

Study from anywhere and earn one of our 100% online, fully AACSB-accredited business degrees. Nationally top-ranked for online learning, our classes are taught by business faculty who are known for research excellence and industry experience.

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