Offered by the Department of Business and Economics
Professors Carpenter, Kutty, Solan
Associate Professors Dugan, Gaballa, Ghods
Assistant Professor Havalchak
Our mission is to achieve excellence in business learning by developing innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who contribute to their local communities and interact in a diverse society.
Our goal is to achieve a business-focused learning environment and to nurture leadership potential in an academically rigorous, mutually responsible learning process, enhanced by interdisciplinary scholarship and community engagement.
Our Core Values:
CHARACTER
We believe in integrity. We act with honesty and respect toward others. We take responsibility for our actions and reflect on their impact on others and ourselves.
SCHOLARSHIP
We believe in learning. We use rigorous, responsible, and critical inquiry to understand existing knowledge, acquire and share new knowledge, and apply what we learn. Each of us is both student and teacher.
CULTURE
We believe in celebrating humanity. We enrich ourselves and others by sharing and exploring our similarities and differences. We honor the past as we invent the future.
SERVICE
We believe in helping others. We work with others to improve the communities in which we now live and will touch in the future. Knowledge invests us with the power to improve our world and the responsibility to act.
The business program [the program] provides its students with general education experiences critical to success in our fast-paced, global environment. As the amount of information available continues to accelerate; it is the leadership skills learned at Mansfield that will provide our business graduates with the compass to navigate this complex environment. Leadership skills are buoyed by key employer-requested skills, including written and oral communication, quantitative and information literacy, teamwork, problem solving, and civil responsibility. This valuable skill set is embedded into the program’s general education and reinforced in the student’s business coursework, including knowledge in the fields of finance, computer information systems and technology, global business, economics, management, marketing, and accounting.
The Business Administration major:
The business administration major allows students maximum flexibility to design an individualized program of study tailored to each student’s individual interests and aspirations. Students can emphasize one or two content areas: finance, economics, international business, management, marketing, travel & tourism, or accounting. Alternately, students can choose a broad undergraduate business background and select courses from a blend of areas. The program is designed so that a student can select an additional twelve or more hours of study in one of the many minors offered at Mansfield, or take additional coursework in business.
The program is designed to accentuate faculty talent and focus faculty efforts in a manner that maximizes resources to best serve our student population.
Students can qualify to sit for the CPA exam in Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Mansfield University and gain their CPA license with work experience. Students must to take one summer class from Mansfield to complete the coursework satisfactory to the PA Board of Accountancy, Auditing. Many states require additional courses to establish eligibility to sit for the exam or obtain licensing. In many states, the minimum number of college credit hours is 150.
As academic advisors, the business faculty assist students with coursework selection.
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