School of Business and Economics

Welcome

On behalf of the School of Business and Economics (SBE), we want to personally welcome you to FSU! Our curricular programs and small class sizes will provide you with the opportunity to enhance your communication, technological, and problem-solving skills. You will also have the opportunity to know your professors both inside and outside of the classroom and hone your team-building and leadership skills through our student organizations. More importantly, our accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate School of Business (AACSB) International, the premier accrediting agency for business programs around the world, points to the quality of the education you will receive here at the SBE.

Please feel free to explore our academic programs and review our faculty profiles. We appreciate your interest in the SBE and are always available to address your questions or concerns.

Recent Events

MIS Graduate Lands a Job at Johnson & Johnson Company

February 1, 2013 - Kelle N. Herbert, BS Management Information Systems' graduate is now working as an analyst in the IT Quality and Compliance Department of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), one of America's largest Fortune 500 companies. She secured this opportunity in February 1, 2013 after completing her participation with the J&J Information Technology Leadership Development Program, a two-year leadership program sponsored by the Office of Career Services. Read more >>

$643,000 Grant Awarded to FSU

July 13, 2012 - FSU was recently awarded a five-year, $643,000 grant from the US Economic Development Administration (EDA). The funds will be used to establish a university center to advance EDA's mission to promote US innovation and competitiveness in the global economy. The primary focus of the Center will be to accelerate business expansion by proactively linking existing firms with the knowledge, resources, and technical assistance that will enable students to effectively introduce new products, win new contracts, improve efficiency, and create high paying jobs in the defense, energy, and agriculture industries.

Key project personnel are Dr. Pamela Jackson and Mr. Greg McElveen from the SBE and Mrs. Emily Dickens, Director of Government and Community Affairs.

SBE Student Wins Award

Carlos Swan received the North Carolina Campus Compact's Fifth Community Impact Award on Nov. 9. The award is for making significant, innovative contributions to the campus' efforts to address the local community needs. Read more >>

MIS Graduate Starts a Job at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

MIS and Finance double major Garry Simpson who graduated last spring landed a job at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (http://www.fdic.gov/) as a database/SQL programmer. He started in June. His job offer came as a result of initial interviews he had at the Thurgood Marshall Conference in New York last semester, which some FSU business students were selected to attend.

Miss Brittany Harrison and Mr. Ivory Anthony Osbourne, 2011 FSU graduates and honors students in accounting, were accepted into the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade in Shanghai, China. Miss Harrison and Mr. Osbourne will pursue a master's degree in International Business. Both students participated in the Thurgood Marshall Initiative and studies abroad (in China) during the 2008 summer term.

Former MBA Student Receives a Medallion

Dr. Ashok Jain, a 2004 graduate of FSU's MBA program, is one of three worldwide recipients of the prestigious 2010 Beta Gamma Sigma Medallion for Entrepreneurship Award. >>Read More