The importance of accreditation
Dean's Message
Early in the spring 2006 semester, the Broad School underwent a detailed evaluation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). One peer review team assessed our undergraduate, MBA, master’s and PhD degree programs, and a different peer review team reviewed accounting, which is separately accredited by AACSB. We also participated in a review of the university by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA).
As a result, the Broad School’s prestigious AACSB accreditation – which has been in place since 1953 – has been extended for both the college and for accounting for an additional six years. The university’s NCA accreditation has also been reaffirmed. To learn more about AACSB accreditation, including which Broad School programs are specifically accredited, visit www.bus.msu.edu/programs.html.
I want to thank my colleagues Judy Olian, dean and John E. Anderson Chair in Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management; and Richard Cosier, dean and Leeds Professor of Management at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, who conducted our maintenance of accreditation review for AACSB; as well as Jamie Pratt, KPMG Professor of Accounting at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University; and Richard Dietrich, chair, Department of Accounting at the Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, who conducted our AACSB accounting review.
Academic Year 2005-06 |
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Eli Broad Graduate School of Management |
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| Eli Broad Colleger of Business (Undergraduate) | 4,627 |
| Eli Broad Graduate School of Management (Graduate) | 770 |
| MBA | |
| Full-Time | 176 |
| Executive | 88 |
| Weekend | 212 |
| Specialized Master's | 202 |
| Doctoral | 92 |
| Total Broad School enrollment | 5,397 |
| Undergraduate | 1,309 |
| MBA | |
| Full-Time | 117 |
| Executive | 46 |
| Weekend | 96 |
| Master's | 197 |
| Doctoral | 29 |
| Total Broad School degrees conferred | 1,794 |
| Full-time (tunured/tunure track) | 100 |
Their willingness to study our operations, understand our strategies and listen to our challenges was much appreciated. I also had an opportunity to serve on a peer review team this year for the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. I hope the teams that reviewed the Broad School gained as much from their commitment of time and energy as I did from my experience with Smith. As deans and faculty of business schools, we face similar issues, but gain much insight from each other’s endlessly innovative solutions.
The evaluation process itself – for both AACSB and NCA – is an excellent way for all parts of the organization to pause, in the crush of teaching responsibilities, administrative duties and research deadlines, and be reflective about what we are doing, being as objective as possible about collecting the data that defines our activities. Can we quantify what we have accomplished? Have we kept our eyes on our long-term educational and research goals? Are there things we could be doing better?
Ultimately, it is that last question that drives us forward, keeps us talking and planning long after the evaluators have returned to their own campuses. Even after a very good year – and this academic year was a very good year for the Broad School in so many ways – we know that there are great things yet to accomplish. I know I speak for the entire Broad School faculty, staff, students and alumni when I say that not only do we recognize the new and better things we could be doing, but we have already taken significant steps toward doing these things.
You can read about many of them in the pages of this report. I hope you will find our accomplishments interesting. As you will see, it is the efforts of the entire Broad School community that have made us successful.
Robert B. Duncan
The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Dean