Fogelman College of Business and Economics
FCBE Degree Learning Outcomes
Embedded in our mission is the commitment to ensure that every academic program equips students with the knowledge and skills necessary for professional success. To support this goal, the Fogelman College uses AACSB’s Assurance of Learning (AoL) framework as part of an ongoing, evidence‑based quality assurance process.
Each degree program includes clearly defined competency goals and measurable learning objectives that reflect the knowledge and skills students are expected to achieve. These outcomes guide curriculum development, ensure alignment with our mission, and drive continuous improvements in teaching and learning across the College.
Competency Goals and Learning Outcomes (LOs) by Degree Program
undergraduate
- Graduates have a strong knowledge base in the core areas of business.
- LO1. Understand key concepts their major area of study in business.
- LO2. Understand core concepts spanning multiple disciplines common to business.
- Graduates are critical thinkers.
- LO1. Identify business problems and recommend solutions.
- Graduates are effective presenters.
- LO1. Deliver a professional presentation.
- Graduates are effective written communicators.
- LO1. Produce professional documents.
- Graduates are effective collaborators.
- LO1. Collaborate with others to achieve a collective goal.
- Graduates are ethical decision-makers.
- LO1. Identify and analyze ethical issues pertinent to business operations.
graduate
- Graduates are collaborative and effective leaders.
- LO1. Collaborate effectively in team-based environments.
- LO2. Understand how to address team conflict using management tools.
- LO3. Recognize different leadership styles and their implications for managing teams and organizations.
- Graduates are effective communicators.
- LO1. Communicate ideas effectively to diverse stakeholders across multiple formats (written, oral, presentation)
- Graduates are analytical and data-driven problem solvers.
- LO1. Frame business problems in a variety of organizational contexts.
- LO2. Develop solutions by integrating quantitative and qualitative analysis.
- LO3. Apply data and current technology tools, including AI, to analyze information and communicate results.
- Graduates have integrative business knowledge.
- LO1. Apply multidisciplinary business knowledge across and within functional areas and organizations.
- Graduates are ethically and culturally aware decision-makers.
- LO1. Recognize the effect of social, ethical, and cultural issues on organizational structures and systems.
- Graduates are knowledgeable of core economic theory.
- LO1. Analyze individual, firm, and aggregate economic behavior using microeconomic
and macroeconomic theory.
- LO1. Analyze individual, firm, and aggregate economic behavior using microeconomic
and macroeconomic theory.
- Graduates have strong empirical skills.
- LO1. Apply econometric methods to analyze data, test hypotheses, and evaluate economic
relationships.
- LO1. Apply econometric methods to analyze data, test hypotheses, and evaluate economic
relationships.
- Graduates are effective communicators of economic reasoning and empirical findings.
- LO1. Present results of economic analysis and data-driven research clearly and professionally.
- Graduates are professionally competent in advanced accounting topics.
- LO1: Apply quantitative methods in management accounting for business decision making.
- LO2: Understand advanced auditing methodologies.
- LO3: Prepare consolidated, governmental, or not-for-profit financial reports.
- LO4: Prepare business tax returns.
- Graduates are proficient in accounting analytics.
- LO1: Apply analytical tools to accounting problems.
- LO2: Apply data visualization to accounting data.
- Graduates are skilled in one accounting concentration. *
- Concentration choice 1. Business Analysis and Reporting.
- LO1: Describe and discuss emerging attestations.
- LO2: Conduct financial statement analysis.
- Concentration choice 2. Information Systems and Controls.
- LO1: Understand security issues and controls of information systems.
- LO2: Understand IT audit issues and techniques.
- Concentration choice 3. Tax Compliance and Planning.
- LO1: Conduct personal tax advising.
- LO2: Conduct tax research.
- LO3: Prepare tax returns for partnerships and partners.
- Concentration choice 1. Business Analysis and Reporting.
- Graduates are prepared to pursue professional accounting careers with public accounting firms, non-profit entities, public and private companies as well as governmental entities (indirect measure: certification exam pass rate).
* All students are required to complete one of three concentrations.
- Graduates are knowledgeable of core financial theory
- LO1. Analyze securities, portfolios, corporations, and derivatives using finance theory.
- LO1. Analyze securities, portfolios, corporations, and derivatives using finance theory.
- Graduates have strong empirical skills
- LO1. Apply big data modeling using financial technologies for data visualization,
effective decision communication, and dynamic financial analysis.
- LO1. Apply big data modeling using financial technologies for data visualization,
effective decision communication, and dynamic financial analysis.
- Graduates are effective communicators of financial analysis and empirical findings
- LO1. Present the results of financial analysis, statistical inference, and data-driven research.
- Graduates are proficient in database design and administration.
- LO1. Apply contemporary database design and data modeling techniques.
- LO2. Describe the primary duties and skills required of a database administrator in
an organizational context.
- Graduates are proficient in business analytics for data-informed decisions.
- LO1. Employ key components of a business analytics project within an organizational setting.
- LO2. Apply appropriate statistical techniques for hypothesis testing, to support data-driven inferences.
- LO3. Use contemporary business analytics and data visualization tools to analyze and
communicate insights.
- Graduates are proficient in structured information systems design.
- LO1. Apply techniques for designing effective information systems.
- LO2. Apply techniques for gathering and analyzing requirements for Information Systems
development.
- Graduates are effective strategic IT leaders.
- LO1. Describe the role of IT leadership in the strategic planning of Information Systems management, including enterprise architecture, infrastructure planning and information management.
- LO2. Describe major types of information systems used across organizations and evaluate
how these systems enhance organizational effectiveness and efficiency.
- Graduates are effective communicators in professional and technical contexts.
- LO1. Communicate effectively as technology professionals using contemporary presentation and reporting tools.
- Graduates are knowledgeable in core and emerging theories.
- LO1. Understand key theories in their field.
- LO1. Understand key theories in their field.
- Graduates are knowledgeable in research methodologies and analysis.
- LO1. Apply methodologies in their field.
- LO1. Apply methodologies in their field.
- Graduates have oral communication skills necessary to disseminate research.
- LO1. Deliver a presentation of original research findings at a peer-reviewed seminar
or academic conference.
- LO1. Deliver a presentation of original research findings at a peer-reviewed seminar
or academic conference.
- Graduates have written communication skills necessary to disseminate research.
- LO1. Develop a manuscript suitable for submission to a peer-reviewed journal or conference.
- LO1. Develop a manuscript suitable for submission to a peer-reviewed journal or conference.
- Graduates are competent in college-level teaching.
- LO1. Deliver and manage a college-level course.