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)

33% Full-time     67% Part-time
10% On Campus     69% Online    21% Campus & Online
58% Male     42% Female
536 - Admitted Spring 2013 Average GMAT Score
3.16 - Admitted Spring 2013 Average Undergraduate GPA