School Profile

School Overview

The Department of Marketing is positioned within the College of Business, which has undergraduate and graduate programs accredited by AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The business school is housed in the 118,000 square foot, state-of-the-art State Farm Hall of Business. The Department offers a marketing degree with sequences in General Marketing, Professional Sales, Advanced Marketing Analytics, and Integrated Marketing Communication to just under 1,000 undergraduate students. The Department offers marketing courses to a full complement of graduate students in the M.B.A. program and a new STEM-designated Master of Science in Marketing Analytics degree program, as well as an accelerated Marketing Analytics sequence and 4+1 program. The Department also offers a B.S. and M.S. in Business Education. The Department includes 31 tenured, tenure track and non-tenure track faculty (with 17 Ph.D.’s/D.B.A.’s).

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