Mission Statement

The School of Management provides high quality, practice-oriented business programs to well-qualified students on a regional campus of the University of Michigan. While the School primarily maintains a regional student focus, it provides a quality educational experience preparing them for national placement. Our primary mission is to meet the business-related educational needs of our undergraduate and graduate students, supported by new technologies and a variety of teaching methodologies. By providing regional organizations with professionally competent interns and graduates, we strive to meet both the community's human resource needs and our students' employment and education needs. The mission is enhanced by the School's location in a major metropolitan and industrial area. The environment is strongly influenced by the automobile manufacturing industry and its increasingly global outreach.

Our undergraduate and graduate programs are designed to supply students with professional and technical skills essential to being successful in an evolving business environment. Each program is characterized by limited class size. We also offer students outstanding professional internship opportunities. Our primary mission is complemented by our faculty's commitment to making intellectual contributions. The main focus of this intellectual process is refereed publications in nationally recognized journals that lead to contributions beneficial to academic and business professionals.

To achieve this mission, we will:

• Create rigorous business programs delivered to talented students by outstanding experts in a creative, intellectually challenging environment;
• Prepare our students to meet the business challenges of rapid technological change, a knowledge based economy, globalization, and the ethical demands of a free society; and
• Conduct research that positively impacts the thought and practice of professionals and academics.