OU’s SBA is one of only 170 business schools — out of 8,000 worldwide — to hold the AACSB’s accreditation for both business and accounting programs.
Student Success:
Stinson Student Advancement Center
The new student center that supports the three tenets of SBA education: integrative thinking, experimental learning and global understanding.
- Services Available: Advising, mentoring and career development
- Supports Collaborative Work: State of the art collaboration space featuring flexible design to allow easy reconfiguration for multiple education, conference, lecture and other uses separately or concurrently to enable formal and informal collaboration among faculty, students, alumni and the business community, including the Timothy and Marsha Healy cafe serving sandwiches and coffee
- Advances Student Learning: Technology to support innovations in teaching and learning through action-based learning in a new Network Security Lab. Students will have the opportunity to gain real-world knowledge by experimenting online with network configurations, firewalls and computer malware. All this will be available to without compromising the security of OU's computing systems or other systems that can be reached through the Internet.
- Facilitates Global Interactions: Leading edge technology that supports virtual global experiences and connectivity to international business centers around the world.
National Award-Winning SBA Student Organizations:
- Home to 12 student organizations
- SBA's chapter of the Society for Human Resources Management: Received the Student Chapter Merit or Superior Merit award every year since 1992-93.
- The student chapter of the American Marketing Association: Has won awards for outstanding fundraising and communications at the National Collegiate Conference;
- Beta Alpha Psi: Earned Superior Chapter honors every year since 1993, and received the Outstanding Volunteer award in 2010 for community service activities.
According to the latest OU Career Services Survey, 90% of recent SBA graduates report being professionally employed with six months.
Research Excellence
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Management Information Systems Faculty are listed among the Top 100 business schools based on research contributions according to an annual ranking compiled by the University of Texas-Dallas School of Management—for over 15 years!
- OU is 49th among North America’s more than 500 business schools based on research contributions from 2007-2009 for two prestigious publications, ISR and MIS Quarterly (MISQ). Examples of Outstanding faculty research include:
- Emerging Topics: SBA MIS Professor Vijayan Sugumaran is among a group of renowned international scholars who received a $10 million grant from the Korean government to research the emerging Service Systems Engineering topic at Sogang University in South Korea.
- The Impact of Virtual Communities: Professor, MIS, Balaji Rajagopalan received a grant from the Taiwan Government and National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaoshing, Taiwan, to work on an internationally collaborative research project that is focused on the impact of virtual communities.
Faculty Fellows: Recognized for leadership
- Stinson Fellow: Balaji Rajagopalan, Professor
- Mendola Fellow: Accounting and Finance Department Chair Mohinder Parkash
- Hartman Fellow: Joseph Callahan, Accounting
- Mallak Fellow: Rajeev Singhal, Finance
OU Recognized Faculty in Research Excellence: Miron Stano and Joseph Callahan
The SBA's Executive MBA program is the only one in Michigan to offer complementary concentrations in Health Care Management and Information Systems Leadership. This waitlisted cohort program utilizes the expertise of local hospital and industry leadership to compliment the faculty research and program strengths.
Only three years since its inception the SBA's Center for integrated Business Research and Education
- Established global partnerships at more than 40 universities in 17 countries
- Supports local and regional economic development initiatives through:
- Experiential Learning & Innovation -- SBA's top graduate students work on sponsored business projects. In a recent example, an ELI student assisted an alternative energy company research, analyze and write a business plan for a new product which helped the company introduce it to investors and obtain $1 million in financing.
- Applied Technology in Business -- 13 years of offering undergraduates this unique business minor, the program continues to offer a blend of rigorous coursework and the completion of sponsor projects where students get directly involved in business learning problem-solving and project management skills.
- ACHIEVE is a professional and career development program designed to provide undergraduates with critical career support through the various stages of their educational development. From networking to business ethics and financial literacy, students learn how to become “Day One Professional Workers.”
- Recent and Upcoming national events, include:
- International Motor Vehicle Program in 2009 -- One of the oldest and largest international research consortiums of academicians dedicated to studying the global automotive industry.
- Ignite Automotive in 2010 and 2011 -- A series of fast-paced, fun, thought-provoking, global events that began in Seattle dedicated to raising the collective IQ and building connections.
- AMCIS 2011 Conference -- One of the leading conferences in the industry of IS/IT, AMCIS presents the broadest variety of research by and for academicians from all over the world.
- Economic Outlook Seminars -- From the Alice Connor Gorlin Memorial Lecture which brings international economic experts to industry professionals who speak regularly in student organization meetings, undergraduate and graduate classes, the SBA Economics Department brings an international perspective to students and visitors alike.