Value, Convenience and Guidance: NAU BBA Program
Value, convenience and guidance is what stands out for students in the BBA program. Check out NAU’s BBA program, it’s the right fit for YOU!
- Value: Our students perform among the best in the nation (above the 90th percentile) in a comprehensive examination of business principles and concepts, improving at nearly double the national averages during the program … and all this at the lowest cost in Arizona.
- Convenience: We offer classes that blend the best of in-person and online features, as well as entirely online classes. Students select whichever format or combination that is most convenient for them.
- Guidance: We offer the smallest average class sizes in Arizona with a caring, professionally and academically qualified faculty that can offer the needed guidance through each class and the degree program, so that students are well prepared for their future careers.
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NAU Flagstaff Commencement May 2014
May 2014 Flagstaff NAU Commencement. Congratulations to all the graduates!! Pictures taken by Dr. Paige Miller-Leister and edited into video by Monica Dockery of the BBA Program in Yuma, AZ.
SALEO Scholarship
Southern Arizona Logistics Education Organization (SALEO) is actively involved in logistics education. The SALEO scholarship application is now available at http://www.saleo.org/education (the link to download the application is at the bottom of the page). The intent is to fund students pursuing logistics-related degrees, but there is quite a bit of flexibility, e.g. marketing is a discipline mentioned on the application form too. Several NAU students have won this $1,000 scholarship in the last two years! Questions? Contact Dr. Dave Parmenter at David.Parmenter@nau.edu.
Earn Credit in an Independent Study Course as a Tutor for the Writing Center
Are you a #BBA student with strong #writing skills? If so, consider working as a #tutor for the Writing Center as part of a three-credit independent study course. If you’d like to hear more details, please contact Dr. Dave #Parmenter at David.Parmenter@nau.edu or Dr. Paige Miller #Leister at Paige.Miller-Leister@nau.edu.
What Makes the NAU BBA Program So Special?
What makes the BBA Program so special? There are many possible answers, one of which is “value.” We use this term a lot to talk about business, but it also applies to other organizations, including ours. Value is defined as the benefit divided by the cost.
The BBA Program is part of the broader Department of Business and Administration. At the department level, our mission (purpose) is:
To provide excellent business management and related higher education for working adults throughout Arizona with an in-depth focus on core business competencies within a global context.
To realize that, we have a supporting vision (overarching goal):
To be a premier provider of Baldrige-Quality business management and related higher education with an emphasis on value and accessibility.
Note the emphasis on “value.” To achieve our goal, we have four strategies, two of which are directly related to creating value for our students:
- High quality education
- Lowest tuition and fees option in Arizona
Unfortunately, it is not easy to come up with a simple number with which to compare value at one school to that at another. But we do use some numbers to let us know if we are on target. Tuition and fees are easy. We do have the lowest in Arizona, and compared to a business major at Arizona State or the University of Arizona, that is a significant difference.
But what about quality? We are currently using three indicators of the quality of our BBA Program: (1) accreditation, (2) student learning, (3) and online class certifications. First, NAU is NCA accredited and the BBA Program is ACBSP accredited. Second, we use a national exam that is given both at the beginning and end of the program to measure student learning. Gap analysis (the degree of improvement between the two exams) shows that our students learn about twice as much as national averages! In addition, our students score above the 90th percentile in most business categories for student learning. That is considered to be “best-in-class”! Third, we are in the process of having all of our online and hybrid classes certified by the national Quality Matters standards for the quality of the course design.
In summary, we provide a very high “value” education to our students. Our quality is among the best in the country, while our cost is the lowest in Arizona. Make the right choice!
Contributed to the blog by Dr. Dean Pielstick
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