BUILD YOUR OWN FUTURE AS A BUSINESS LEADER MBA AND GRADUATE PROGRAMS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

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1 BUILD YOUR OWN FUTURE AS A BUSINESS LEADER MBA AND GRADUATE PROGRAMS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

2 Our new College Home, Steven G. Mihaylo Hall, Summer Classes will meet here beginning with the Fall 2008 semester TABLE OF CONTENTS Dean s Message 1 CBE Alumni 2 Orange County Region 3 College Faculty 4 5 The College 6 Steven G. Mihaylo Hall 7 The MBA 8 9 M.A. in Economics 11 M.S. in Accountancy and M.S. in Taxation 12 M.S. in Information Systems and M.S. in Information Technology (online) 13 Fullerton FEMBA at Irvine 14 Reagan Scholarships 15 CSUF Facts 16 Kevin Costner, a Titan baseball fan, College friend and 1976 CBE graduate in Marketing. VISION STATEMENT We will be the choice of Southern California s businesses and governments for college graduates, business solutions and professional development. College World Series, Baseball Champs 2004 MISSION STATEMENT We create and apply knowledge that transforms student lives, develops business leaders who shape the regional economy, and advances the intellectual capital of our diverse region. Accounting Faculty at May 2007 Graduation

3 DEAN S Message Welcome to the College of Business and Economics, the premier public university business school in Orange County. Our impact stems from our immense presence in the region and strong links to the economic progress of the area. As California s largest AACSB accredited business school, the College prepares an unmatched number of graduates for success in the workplace, and our faculty, staff and students work with business leaders to advance the fortunes of businesses in Orange County and southern California. From our University s start in 1957 to our fiftieth anniversary this year, the faculty has focused on creating a quality educational system that serves the Orange County region. Our campus and its reputation have grown along with Orange County. From the College s start in 1959 and the first masters degree awarded in 1964, we have focused on quality and excellence. Such quality is indicated by our initial AACSB accreditation in 1965, the youngest business school ever to be awarded this distinction, to our current accreditation for our undergraduate and graduate programs in both business administration and accounting. Perhaps the most exciting event for our College is the upcoming move into Steven G. Mihaylo Hall. Construction is well underway and by fall 2008, it will be our new home. We have even included a lounge designated exclusively for Graduate Students in the new building. Join us as we build on our excellence. The MBA program, as well as all of our graduate programs in the College of Business and Economics, will provide you with the competitive advantage necessary to be a strong leader in today s dynamic market driven global economy. We aim to provide you with the opportunities, knowledge and skills to be a leader and hope that you take advantage of our programs to enrich your career and life. We welcome your comments and input! Anil K. Puri, Dean 1 1

4 COLLEGE Alumni With over 4,500 graduates of our masters programs, our alumni populate the corporations and small businesses of Orange County and the surrounding region. Add to these numbers our over 40,000 undergraduate alumni and you have an amazing network for planning and shaping your career. A few of our distinguished MBA alumni are profiled below. David Vodden (B.A. 70, MBA 73, Management) is President and Chief Executive Officer of San Francisco Region Properties, Inc., a California corporation doing business as Thunderhill Raceway Park in Willows, California. Antonio (Tony) Vasquez (B.A. 67, MBA 68) serves as Vice President of Finance and CFO of Geometrics, Inc. in San Jose. Geometrics is a developer and manufacturer of geophysical instruments used to measure and identify resources and objects underground. K.P. Bala Balkrishna (MBA 78) is a Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Commercial Bank of California. Prior to founding Commercial Bank of California in May 2003, he was an Executive Vice President, heading up the Commercial and Industrial Banking Group for First Bank & Trust, in Newport Beach. Tom Chen (MBA 04, Finance) is President of Xiamen CS Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. His company is one of the fastest growing real estate developers in Fujian province, China, with a business scope ranging from master planning, land development, building of luxury residential projects, to marketing and property management. 2 2

5 ORANGE COUNTY Orange County: The Pacific Ocean. Laguna, Newport and Huntington Beaches. Fashion Island. Disneyland. A population of 3 million. Mountains. Deserts. Los Angeles. Mediterranean living. We also live and work among the nation s most diverse population with limitless cultural activities available. And we maintain one of the country s lowest unemployment rates at 3.4%. Orange County has it all. Prospects are unlimited. 3

6 COLLEGE Faculty Faculty form the core of any solid graduate program, from bearing responsibility for the curriculum to teaching classes and serving as advisors and life-long mentors. Our College includes over 150 full-time faculty with Ph.D.s in their area of specialization, along with over 100 dedicated and professionally qualified part-time faculty. Some of our faculty are pictured on the opposite page. During the past three-year-period our faculty have published over 360 articles in scholarly journals of those, over 50 have been in the top ranking journals in business. With such quality and numbers, our faculty are able to teach courses in their areas of specialization, integrating classroom education with best business practices, award-winning research, functional applications, and real-world experience. Awards, Recognition and Faculty Recently in the News: Denise Stanley, Professor of Economics was a Fulbright Scholar in Honduras in Three of our College faculty professors Jane Hall, George Marcoulides and Zvi Drezner have earned the CSUF Professor of the Year during the past 15 years. Finance Professor Michael LaCour-Little addressed a Congressional Committee about the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. Economics Professor Adrian Fleissig published Southern California Leading Economic Indicators, May Energy Economist, Professor Robert Michaels, spoke at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Conference on market monitoring. Professors Dmitry Khanin and Raj V. Mahto of the Department of Management, presented their research on Venture Capital at the San Francisco-Silicon Valley Global Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Zvi Drezner, Professor of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, was honored in June 2006 with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Location Analysis from the INFORMS Section on Location Analysis. The triennial award recognizes career achievements that influence location analysis research. Professor Michael Ames and CSUF alumna and attorney Vi Pham, were awarded a $1.6 million U.S. Small Business Administration contract to continue to oversee the SBA's regional small-business development centers for Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino, housed in the College. For more Faculty in the News, see: 4 5

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8 THE COLLEGE National Recognition Through the process of accreditation, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) confirms that you will earn a quality education. Only a small number business schools have earned dual AACSB accreditation in both business and accounting. Our program, along with USC, are the only two in Southern California to have achieved this distinction. U.S. News & World Report s annual Top Public Universities-Master s in the West ranks CSUF at No. 8. The College is listed in the Princeton Review s Best 237 Business Schools publication. Research by the College s Real Estate faculty is ranked #40 nationwide. The Journal of Real Estate Research, edited by Professor Ko Wang of the Department of Finance is one of the top three academic real estate journals. The Department of Finance is ranked 101 out of 922 departments in the country in terms of research productivity in the three leading finance journals according to a comprehensive study by Professor Chan at Western Kentucky University. The Big 4 Accounting firms have designated the College as a preferred school for accounting. The Department of ISDS was recently ranked as being among the top 36 in the nation in research productivity in INFORMS journals. Size Brings Strength and Quality With over 8,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students currently enrolled, the College is among the five largest in the nation. Our size brings immense strengths, which maintains our quality. Graduate students may tailor their own curriculum from over 170 different courses in six academic departments. Such flexibility maximizes the ability of students to design a study plan to meet their career goals. Over 10% of our MBA students are full-time, and almost 50% are female. College faculty manage 11 Centers of Excellence ( several of which are directly involved in graduate education. Our College alumni reside primarily in Southern California, but have positions in most states. In addition, we count among our alumni: Over 100 Presidents/CEOs/Chairpersons of small to major corporations Almost 40 CFOs or Controllers Over 20 Owner/Entrepreneurs 6 6

9 OUR NEW HOME During the summer of 2008, our College moves into Steven G. Mihaylo Hall (SGMH). It is named for one of our graduates who went from being the sole employee in a one-man shop to Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Inter-Tel, a communications hardware, software and services company. Mihaylo has made a $4.5 million commitment to the College of Business and Economics the largest gift in the University's history. The building is the new gateway to campus. Key features that particularly benefit our masters students include: a graduate student lounge on the ground floor several tiered classrooms dedicated to graduate-level classes ample computer classrooms, with state-of-the-art technology a new graduate programs office, with a central location on the 3rd floor interview rooms for corporate recruiting that will also double as break-out rooms for class groupwork Dean Puri notes that we want our students to have spaces to work together, as well as quiet areas for self-study. Mihaylo Hall's central quad and the cafeteria make this a building where students will want to come and stay. 7

10 THE MBA When students earn their master s degree from the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Fullerton, they can rest assured that their degree is a mark of quality. They will be joining several thousand working professionals in Orange County who earned their MBA or an M.S./M.A. in a business discipline from CSUF. Since 1963 the College of Business and Economics has been shaping business leaders. Today, almost 45 years later, as the University celebrates its 50th anniversary, the College has grown to become one of the nation s largest business schools and the only one in the L.A. metro area besides USC to hold the prestigious level of dual accreditation in business and accounting from AACSB International. Only 168 Universities world wide have achieved this accomplishment. Admissions Whatever your academic and professional background, we want to be sure that you are adequately prepared for your graduate experience with the College of Business & Economics at Cal State Fullerton. In order to maintain a high-quality program that benefits all graduates, our programs are competitive, and admission is based on a holistic assessment of each candidate's academic and personal/professional background. While the admission s committee considers all qualifications submitted, normally an undergraduate GPA of 3.20 and a GMAT score of 550 is adequate for admission. For complete details about our graduate admissions, please visit: Personal Study Plan Our MBA students are able to achieve maximum flexibility in designing their own study plan to match their career goals. The basic curriculum consists of a set of ten Foundation Courses, four electives and a capstone course. The Graduate Advisor assists you in designing your study plan to take account of prior coursework, avoiding duplication of previous coursework and tailoring electives to your personal career goals. Full or Part time Options A large number of our students take courses part-time (two courses each semester), and are thus able to complete the program in under three years. But a full-time load is possible, with classes held in the late afternoon (4 6:45 p.m.) and Monday Thursday nights (7 9:45 p.m.). This option enables students to complete the MBA efficiently, with two basic approaches, as follows. Students entering with a B.A. in Business Administration. Such students enter with maximum credit and may be able complete their MBA degree in 16 months with just 11 courses. Students may have up to four of the Foundation courses waived, enabling them to choose their electives within the 11 course curriculum. 8 8

11 THE MBA Students entering with a non Business Bachelor s Degree. Such students will normally be required to complete the entire 15 course curriculum. But if taken full-time, a student may complete the degree in 20 months. Curriculum The MBA curriculum is based upon ten Foundation Courses and a capstone. They include: Accounting 510 Financial Accounting Accounting 511 Seminar in Managerial Accounting Economics 515 Microeconomic Perspective for Managers Finance 517 Managerial Finance InfoSys/DecSci 514 Decision Models for Business and Economics Management 515 Management of Information in the Corporate Environment or Economics 521 Macroeconomic Perspective for Managers Management 516 Operations Management Management 518 Legal and Ethical Environment of Business Management 524 Seminar in Organizational Behavior and Administration Marketing 519 Marketing Management BUAD 591 Business Strategy Capstone Students choose their four elective (concentration) courses from among the following concentration areas: Accounting, Economics, E-commerce, Entrepreneurship, Finance, General, Information Systems, International Business (5 electives), Management, Management Science, and Marketing. Capstone Course Our College s Small Business Institute manages the capstone course, one of the hallmarks of the CSUF MBA. In this course, student groups serve as consultants for local businesses. Through the SBI, our student consulting projects have won 39 awards from the U. S. Small Business Administration from 1990 through 2006, placing first in the nation in , 2001, 2002, 2004 and We invite you to learn more about our MBA and other masters programs by contacting our prospective advisor at mba@fullerton.edu or

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13 M.A. in Economics The Department of Economics at California State University, Fullerton offers a program leading to the Master of Arts Degree. The program offers a variety of features: Assistantships are available to qualified students Regular research seminars are open to students and faculty If all prerequisites have been met, the program can be completed in three semesters of full-time study or two and one-half years of part-time study The department has a full-time faculty of 30 who are active in teaching and research, and who maintain a close working relationship with graduate students. The program consists of units and must be completed with a minimum GPA of Students may obtain their degree either through a thesis exit track or an examination exit track. Students may also customize their program based on one of four areas of interest. Those areas include: Financial and monetary economics Health, aging and labor economics Public economics, law and industrial organization International, environmental and development economics For Further Information Please go to the online link below or consult the inserts in the back pocket. For online information, see: 11

14 M.S. in Accountancy and in Taxation The Master of Science in Accountancy program provides the conceptual understanding and technical competence for a career in professional accounting. Emphasis is placed on the development of a professional attitude and the capacity to deal with accounting policy and ethics issues. The Master of Science in Taxation program provides the conceptual understanding and technical competence for a career in taxation. Employment opportunities include the tax departments of CPA and law firms, as well as corporations and government tax agencies. For those already employed in this field, the M.S. in Taxation program should meet the continuing education requirements of professional associations and licensing boards. The qualifications of the M.S. in Taxation faculty include advanced degrees in taxation, accounting, and law; practical tax experience; and professional standing as CPAs and attorneys. Each student develops a Study Plan of a minimum of 30 semester units of course work (ten courses) beyond the baccalaureate degree. For the M.S. in Accountancy, the plan stipulates that at least 24 of the 30 units required for the degree must be at the graduate level (500-level courses). For the M.S. in Taxation, at least 21 of the 30 units required for the degree must be at the graduate level. A 3.0 ( B ) GPA is required in study plan courses and over-all applicable course work. Students with a bachelors degree in a field other than business administration may be required to take additional preparatory courses. For Further Information Please go to the online link below or consult the inserts in the back pocket. For online information, see:

15 M.S. in Information Systems and in Information Technology The M.S. in Information Systems program provides the conceptual understanding and technical competence for careers in information systems. Information Systems are computer-based systems that provide management with the necessary information to support the decision-making needs of an organization. Students in the program select either a generalist concentration, a concentration in e-commerce, or a concentration in decision sciences. Students with a recent undergraduate degree in business administration equivalent to the degree offered at CSU Fullerton should be able to complete the ten-course curriculum within a year-and-a-half on a full-time basis. Students with a bachelors degree in a field other than business administration may be required to take additional preparatory courses. The Study Plan consists of 30 units. The M.S. in Information Technology is a fully on-line program. The program consists a Study Plan of ten courses (30 units of coursework) which will be completed over a 20-month period. Each course contains a multi-modal assessment methodology to document learning via projects, demonstrations, applications, research papers and examinations. The culminating experience includes research and a practicum grounded in the theoretical foundations covered in the coursework. An electronic portfolio of culminating experiences and preparatory coursework will be created by each student enrolled in the program. This portfolio will be reviewed at the end of the first year and evaluated by the Program Coordinator at the end of the program. For Further Information Please go to the online link below or consult the inserts in the back pocket. For online information, see:

16 FULLERTON FEMBA at Irvine The newly reformatted MBA program in Irvine is now known as the Fullerton FEMBA at Irvine. This program is offered at CSUF s Irvine Campus at the Great Park, with courses meeting twice a week from 7 to 9:45 p.m. It is a non-state supported program with a different fee structure and has several features that should appeal to working professionals: Students take only one course at a time. This allows you to focus on one academic topic, without having to juggle different sets of course deadlines. The program utilizes a cohort format, which enables you to work and study collaboratively, forming close relationships and valuable contacts, with the goal of developing valuable life-long networks as Titan MBAs. The program s scheduling allows professionals to pursue their education while working full time. This makes it an ideal solution for students who are financing their own degrees. Classes are held during the week. Hence, students manage their own time on weekends. Beginning with the Fall 2008 cohort, students with a business bachelor s degree will commence studies in August. Fall cohorts will complete the degree in under two years, with the following course schedule ( 1 indicates first eight weeks of a semester and 2 indicates the second eight weeks): FALL 2008 COHORT Fall (Aug) ACCT 511 Fall (Oct) ISDS 514 Spring (Jan) MGMT 516 Spring (Apr) FIN 517 TR 7:00 P.M. 9:45 P.M. Summer S09 1 (May) MGMT 515 or ECON 521 Summer 09 2 (July) MKTG 519 Fall (Aug) FIN 533 Fall (Oct) MGMT 525 Spring (Jan) MKTG 596 Spring (Apr) BUAD 591 Summer (May) MGMT 547 Entering students with non-business degrees will commence their studies during spring These students will complete their missing Foundation courses and then join the next cohort during fall For online information, see:

17 REAGAN SCHOLARSHIPS The Michael A. Reagan Graduate Scholarship for Outstanding Incoming Graduate Students is awarded each semester to newly admitted graduate students in our College who have demonstrated academic excellence in their undergraduate studies. Recipients of these $4,000 merit based scholarships receive this one-time award disbursed in two installments over consecutive semesters. Applicants to the MBA, MS in Accountancy, MS in Information Systems, MS in Information Technology, MS in Taxation and MA in Economics with outstanding undergraduate academic records are encouraged to apply. Multiple scholarships are awarded in both fall and spring semesters. For further information and application information, please call the Graduate Programs Office at , or visit our website at: For additional information about Financial Aid at CSUF, please contact the Financial Aid Office in Room 146 of University Hall, , or 15

18 California State University, Fullerton Statistics 34,927 students enrolled during Spring 2007 Average age of students is 24.3 years Over 1,500 international students represent almost 80 countries Almost 2,000 full- and part-time faculty teach classes More than 180,000 graduates as of January 2007 Economic Impact Cal State Fullerton generates $851 million in economic activity annually, sustaining more than 12,500 jobs in the region and generating more than $45 million per year in state tax revenue. 16

19 Success in the business world is dependent on knowledge, strategy and competitive advantages. My MBA brought real world decisions and experiences into the classroom to be examined and discussed with other students from a variety of different backgrounds in a way that bridges theory with application. I consider my MBA as My Best Asset! QUOTE BY TOM GAST WHILE EMPLOYED BY RALPHS GROCERY. Tom Gast (B.A. 79, MBA 88) President/Partner De Rito Partners West, Inc. Anaheim Hills, California De Rito Partners West, Inc. is a commercial real estate evelopment company located in Anaheim Hills, California. He joined De Rito Partners in January 2007 after 26 years with Ralphs Grocery Company in Los Angeles where he served as Senior Vice President of Real Estate.

20 college of business and economics PO Box 6848 Fullerton, California BUILDING ORANGE COUNTY S FUTURE BUSINESS LEADERS GRADUATE PROGRAMS STAFF Mark Hoven Stohs, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Faculty Development Chris Anicich, M.S. Graduate Programs Coordinator Diane Mazzey Graduate Advisor Kellee Carter Scales Graduate Evaluator