Mission                                                         

The mission of the East Carolina University College of Business is to be a highly respected regional business school. The mission is achieved by:

• Preparing undergraduate and graduate students for careers in business
• Expanding knowledge of business disciplines through theoretical and applied research, and
• Serving practitioners with training and applied research.

Strategic Goals:

• The COB will provide a high quality, flexible business education distinguished by high value and high student contact that prepares students for careers in the 21st century.
• The COB will excel at educating graduate and undergraduate students to assume positions of leadership in their profession and community.
• The COB will engage in economic outreach, development, and education for eastern North Carolina.
• The COB will encourage and support faculty making intellectual contributions in the form of academic, applied, and pedagogical scholarship.

• ECU is one of 15 accredited business schools in NC
• ECU Undergraduate Programs accredited in 1967
• ECU Graduate Programs accredited in 1976
• Of more than 1300 Graduate Business Programs nationwide, only 454
     are accredited by AACSB.
• Received 5-year AACSB Re-accreditation in 2010
• 138 top MBA programs part of GMAC (GMAC owns GMAT)
• ECU is 1 of 4 GMAC Members (Out of 23 NC business schools - Others are UNC-CH, Duke, WFU)

32% Full-time     68% Part-time
5% On Campus     72% Online    23% Campus & Online
60% Male     40% Female
533 - Admitted Spring 2012 Average GMAT Score
3.21 - Admitted Spring 2012 Average Undergraduate GPA