Welcome to the Management Department!

Welcome to the Department of Management at Missouri State University.  Let me tell you a few things about our degree programs and our outstanding faculty. 

Options in the management major are offered in five areas reflecting the diversity of specializations that now exist in the field.  These options include: Administrative Management, International Business Administration, Human Resources Management, Production/Operations Management, and Entrepreneurship.  A Major in the field of Entertainment Management and a Masters in Health Administration are also available to provide opportunities in these rapidly growing areas. 

The Department of Management consists of 21 full-time faculty members, all holding doctoral degrees in their fields. The Management faculty has accomplished many wonderful things in recent years. For example, five members have recently been awarded university honors for teaching or research. Dr. Keith Denton has published over 100 articles and 13 books and has earned the Distinguished Scholar Award. Dr. Mary Coulter has the distinction of being co-author of the number one selling management textbook in the world for the last five years. In addition to their scholarship, Management faculty are student-oriented, well-traveled internationally, and committed to the quality education of tomorrow’s business leaders. 

We are proud to be one of five departments in the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accredited College of Business.  This accreditation places us among the top 10% of business schools in the United States that have such total program accreditation. AACSB accreditation is a widely recognized acknowledgment of the quality of our programs, our scholarship, and our faculty.  Over 900 majors and minors have chosen to pursue programs in the management area at Missouri State. 

Planning, organizing, directing, and controlling, are activities that will never become obsolete.  If you plan to enter college to prepare for a career in business, are seeking to organize your future goals and aspirations, are directing your efforts in a focused way, and wish to control your success, the Management Department at Missouri State may be the place for you.

- Barry Wisdom