Grow, diversify, enhance, and elevate stature of graduate programs 4

• Continue to strengthen master’s programs with aggressive marketing, international recruitment, company partnerships, expanded online offerings, accelerated master’s programs, and graduate certificates.

• Refine and grow specialized programs in finance, analytical economics, business analytics, and accounting.

• Build out infrastructure for business and alumni engagement and career services for graduate students to enhance career outcomes and foster great alumni affinity.

• Invest in support for Ph.D. students to enhance recruitment and accelerate graduate rate important for R1 status

• Expanded Career and Professional Success office with graduate career advising

• Fully staffed the Graduate Programs Office to tackle business and alumni engagement

Refined and grew specialized master’s degree programs in accounting, business analytics, economics, and finance

MASTER’S STUDENT CAREER OUTCOMES

94% PLACEMENT RATE (6 months Post-graduation)

$80,053 AVERAGE SALARY

Foster a collaborative, engaged, inclusive, and aspirational culture that supports all community members to thrive 5

• Foster collegiality, mutual respect, inclusion, and belonging as a core practice and value within our community.

• Increase diversity in our community by strengthening recruitment and retention strategies to increase percentage of women, historically underrepresented minorities, and international faculty, staff, and students.

• Strengthen attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion systematically in our curricula, research, and engagement.