Mission Statement for the Accounting Major: To graduate ethical accounting professionals and future leaders who possess a well-rounded perspective about building value in a business and a community by leveraging the interrelationship between people, processes and information.

PROGRAM LEARNING GOALS: Accounting Major

Graduates will be well grounded in fundamental accounting knowledge relating to financial statement preparation and analysis, management decision making, internal controls and business processes, and tax planning.

Graduates will be able to analyze, integrate and communicate complex information to facilitate management decision-making.

Graduates will be able to work well in a team and possess good communication skills.

Graduates will be able to think analytically and critically, and research basic problems independently.

Graduates will be aware of graduate school options, certification options, and career options, including eventually starting an accounting business.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES: Accounting Major

1.     Accounting majors will score better than other business majors on the accounting portion of the ETS major field test.

2.     Combined pass rates for first-time and repeat takers will continue to be strong (at or above the State of Ohio mean); results will equal or exceed similar results for peer institution programs.

3.     Placement results for all accounting graduates, whether pursuing corporate or public accounting careers, will continue to be strong; reported placement rates approximately one-hundred percent in the one year follow-up study for each graduating class.

4.     All accounting graduates will have completed an experiential learning opportunity: e.g., an internship, professional work experience; of professionally related service-learning experience.

5.     All accounting graduates will have had course-embedded experience conducting research using electronic data bases.

Mission Statement for the Management Major: The management major develops graduates able to enter a career prepared to manage themselves, a group of subordinates, plus organizations’ human, physical and informational resources.

PROGRAM LEARNING GOALS: Management Major

Graduates will be grounded in management theory and practice.

Graduates will be able to apply management theory and practice in solving organizational problems; they will be able to apply the same skills in the context of broader social problems.

Graduates will be capable of conducting business-related research and contributing in a constructive way to managerial problem-solving.

Graduates will be able to work well with others and with a demonstrated appreciation of individual differences and a sensitivity to diversity.

Graduates will be capable of highly professional written and oral communication.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES: Management Major

1.     Management majors will score better than other business majors on the management portion of the ETS major field test.

2.     All management graduates will have completed an experiential learning opportunity (e.g., an internship, SBI project, professional work experience; of professionally related service-learning experience).

3.     All management graduates will have completed a minimum of three team projects as part of their degree program.

4.     All management graduates will have participated in Mock Interview Day.

5.     All management majors will have demonstrated an ability to read, evaluate, and draw conclusions from management research literature.

Mission Statement for International Business & Economics Major: The International Business & Economics major at Ohio Northern University is designed to develop business skills that are necessary to meet the needs of an increasingly global economy and diverse work environment.

PROGRAM LEARNING GOALS: International Business & Economics Major

Graduates are firmly grounded in the theory of international business and economics and are able to apply this knowledge to engage in analytical, reflective and flexible thinking.

Graduates are able to display an understanding of the global, political, social, economic, legal and regulatory context for business.

Graduates display an understanding of and sensitivity to the ethical/social/environmental issues concerning the operational of international business within the global economy.

Graduates have demonstrated cross-cultural understanding and foreign language skills.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES: International Business & Economics

1.     International Business & Economics majors will score better than other business majors on both the economics and the international portions of the ETS major field test.

2.     All graduates will demonstrate competency in at least one modern language through the intermediate college level of studies.

3.     All graduates will have successfully completed an approved international experience.

4.     All graduates will demonstrate improvement on the Cross Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI) from the pretest (freshman year) to the posttest (senior year).