Miller College of Business

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Ball State University campus
Miller College of Business
Miller College of Business
Use Academic College
Erected 1979
Location Whitenger Business Building
Namesake Wallace T. Miller Jr.
Architect James Associates (Whitenger Business Building)
Dean Rodney Davis (Interim Dean)
Website www.bsu.edu/cob

The Miller College of Business is the business college of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.

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[edit] Vision

The Miller College of Business strives to be an excellent business school and a preferred source of business graduates. The college pursues national recognition for expertise in focused areas of business and public policy.

[edit] Mission

The mission of the Miller College of Business is to prepare students for successful professional careers in a dynamic global environment. The College provides students with opportunities to develop their professional and analytical abilities and to use current information and communication technologies. Faculty and staff are to be actively involved in their academic areas and the business community primarily through discipline-based scholarship and service.

[edit] Degree Programs

In order to meet the responsibilities to their students, the college offers degree programs in five departments:

  • Accounting
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Information Systems and Operations Management
  • International Business
  • Marketing and Management

Because the majority of their students are enrolled at the undergraduate level, the major portion of our resources is devoted to the undergraduate programs. However, since the college sees increasing opportunities at the graduate level, a larger percentage of Miller College of Business resources will be committed to continued development and expansion of these programs. The graduate programs include the Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Arts in Education (MAE), and Master of Science (MS) in Accounting degrees. In addition to their on-campus MBA Program, the College of Business provides accredited graduate education for part-time students throughout Indiana and at other selected sites via distance education. The Miller College of Business is accredited by AACSB - the International Association for Management Education, and the accounting program has achieved separate AACSB accreditation. They are committed to maintaining these accreditations.

[edit] Ranking and Recognitions

  • U.S. News & World Report recognized Ball State as having one of the best undergraduate business programs in the nation in the 2006 rankings.
  • Ball State's undergraduate entrepreneurship program is annually ranked among the nation's top 10 programs by U.S. News & World Report and has been described as the "ultimate entrepreneurial experience." The program was ranked sixth by U.S. News & World Report in 2006.
  • The graduate entrepreneurship program is ranked 26th in U.S. News & World Report's 2005 rankings of top graduate programs offered by business schools.
  • The finance program was ranked 11th nationally for quality teaching in an independent study published in the spring 2006 issue of Advances in Financial Education.
  • The H.H. Gregg Center for Professional Selling is one of just nine such programs in the nation and has been recognized by the Professional Society for Sales and Marketing Training (SMT) for its high educational standards.
  • The H.H. Gregg Center for Professional Selling's annual Sales Career Fair is one of the largest of its kind in the country.
  • Ball State's chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma was recognized in 2004 as a premier chapter by the national organization, the honor society for AACSB International–The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
  • A new networking lab teaches students how to protect computer networks and other information systems from cyber-attacks. The lab features the latest equipment, providing a technologically advanced setting for students to manage all types of networks.
  • The college's program in risk management, insurance, and actuarial science is a collaborative effort with the College of Sciences and Humanities that provides opportunities for research and interaction with industry.
  • The Miller College of Business is accredited by AACSB, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, and was the first state-supported institution in Indiana to hold separate AACSB accreditation for the accounting program.

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