Fogelman College of Business and Economics
FCBE 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.
- LO1. Identify business problems and recommend solutions.
- Graduates are effective presenters.
- LO1. Deliver a professional presentation.
- LO1. Deliver a professional presentation.
- Graduates are effective written communicators.
- LO1. Produce professional documents.
- LO1. Produce professional documents.
- Graduates are effective collaborators.
- LO1. Collaborate with others to achieve a collective goal.
- 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 influential leaders.
- LO1. Collaborate effectively in team-based environments.
- LO2. Communicate ideas effectively to diverse stakeholders across multiple formats (written, oral, presentation)
- LO3. Influence peers by exercising initiative and leadership independent of formal
hierarchy.
- Graduates are analytical and data-driven problem solvers.
- LO1. Examine business problems in a variety of contexts.
- LO2. Develop solutions by integrating quantitative and qualitative analysis.
- LO3. Apply data and technology tools to analyze information and communicate results.
- Graduates have integrative business knowledge.
- LO1. Apply multidisciplinary business knowledge across and within functional areas
and organizations.
- 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.
- LO2. Integrate ethical and cultural considerations into organizational strategies.
- Graduates are knowledgeable of core economic theory.
- LO1. Analyze individual, firm, and aggregate economic behavior using economic theory.
- LO1. Analyze individual, firm, and aggregate economic behavior using economic 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 the results of economic analysis and data-driven research.
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- 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 modeling techniques.
- LO2. Describe the primary duties and skills required to be a database administrator
for an organization.
- Graduates are proficient in business analytics for data-informed decisions.
- LO1. Employ components of a business analytics project for an organization.
- LO2. Apply appropriate statistical techniques for hypothesis testing to make inferences.
- LO3. Use contemporary business analytics and data visualization tools.
- Graduates are proficient in structured information systems design.
- LO1. Apply techniques for designing information systems.
- LO2. Apply techniques in gathering requirements for Information Systems.
- Graduates are effective strategic IT leaders.
- LO1. Describe the role of IT leadership in the strategic planning of Information Systems management (e.g., enterprise architecture, infrastructure planning, information management).
- LO2. Describe general types of information systems that can be deployed across organizations
and how these systems benefit 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.