What is a Program?

The school must specify learning goals for each separate degree program.  Generally, such goals are anticipated for each degree, not for separate majors or concentrations within a degree.  For example, a school may offer a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) degree with defined majors in finance, marketing, human resource management, operations management, and general management.  A set of learning goals for the BSBA degree can be provided; goals for each major (while they may, or may not, be developed for the school's use) would not be required for accreditation review purposes.  However, if the school also offers degrees at the undergraduate level called Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems (BSMIS) and Bachelor of Arts in International Management (BAIM), each of those degrees would require a specification of its learning goals.

A school may offer substantially the same MBA degree to full-time day students and to part-time students in evening classes.  The school might decide that the goals of the program are the same in both delivery modes, and thus, one set of goals would be provided.  Alternatively, the school could determine that the two programs have distinct learning goals.  An Executive MBA program would require a separate set of goals to denote its differences from other programs.