College of Business and Analytics | 2024-2025 Graduate Catalog | SIU

The College of Business and Analytics aims to prepare students to perform successfully in business and other organizations such as government and other not-for-profit organizations functioning within a changing social, economic, and political environment. Study provides the student with fundamental principles and practices of organizational behavior and allows the mastering of knowledge and skills for effective management. The curriculum provides a broad base for understanding business while simultaneously allowing in-depth study within an area of concentration and exposure to current information technology. Students find business, governmental units, and other public institutions desire the professional education they receive in the college. The advanced curriculum and related programs provide students not only with a meaningful education but also with a means of relating that education to organizations and commerce.

Faculty members in the College of Business and Analytics undertake both basic and applied research using quantitative, experimental, quasi-experimental, qualitative, and descriptive methods to address important and fundamental issues in the areas of accounting, analytics, economics, finance, hospitality, management, marketing, public administration, and tourism and event management.

• Accounting faculty members contribute to multiple research areas including accounting education, accounting information system, accounting regulation, auditor judgement, auditing theory and practice, big data analytics, capital market, corporate governance, financial reporting quality, fraud auditing, management accounting, risk management, and taxation.
• Economics faculty members conduct research in all areas of economics and publish in leading scholarly journals such as Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, and Journal of Econometrics.
• Finance faculty members study issues that include those in corporate finance such as corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs etc.; Investment and asset pricing including market anomalies, market microstructure (trading), derivative markets, mutual funds etc.; Banking, financial advisors, and other financial institutions; and other topics such as international finance and behavioral finance.
• Hospitality faculty conduct research on consumer behavior, purchasing habits, and motivations regarding food and beverage products, to include sensory analysis, marketing, and future intentions as well as the effects of recession on various segments of the hospitality industry and implications of technostress for the future of the hospitality industry.
• Management researchers examine issues such as effective business strategies, organizational behavior, organization theory, management information systems, production and operations management, supply chain management, motivation, leadership, team performance, and human resource management.
• Marketing faculty conducts research in branding, consumer behavior, ethics, strategy, promotions, digital marketing, sales, services, retailing, B2B marketing, consumer analytics, international/global marketing issues, public policy, and in nonprofit marketing.
• Public Administration researchers examine the various management issues that contribute to high performing public organizations including goal setting strategies, financial management, organization theory, and managements' capacity to navigate political environments.

The College of Business and Analytics and the three Schools of the College offer the following graduate degrees and post-baccalaureate certificates.

College of Business and Analytics

• M.B.A. Business Administration
• Ph.D. Business Administration
• Analytics for Managers, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate

School of Accountancy

• M.Acc. Accountancy
• Accountancy Foundation, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate
• Accountancy Analytics, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate
• Accountancy Taxation, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate

School of Analytics, Finance, and Economics

• M.A. Economics
• M.S. Economics
• M.S. Business Analytics
• Ph.D. Economics

The College of Business and Analytics offices are located in Henry J. Rehn Hall; and classes are conducted in various buildings throughout the campus. 

Differential Tuition

The College of Business and Analytics assesses College of Business and Analytics majors a differential tuition surcharge of 15% of applicable tuition for declared College of Business and Analytics majors. The College of Business and Analytics has a “minor program fee” for other than College of Business and Analytics majors that is equal to 15% of 15 credit hours of applicable tuition for declared College of Business and Analytics minors. This fee is billed in the semester the student declares the minor.

Accreditation

The following graduate degrees are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB).

• M.B.A. in Business Administration
• M.Acc. in Accountancy
• M.S. in Strategic Analytics 
• Ph.D. in Business Administration

M.P.A. in Public Administration is accredited by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA).