Mission Statement

Updated: June 2010

Mission

The College of Business serves the educational needs of New Mexico’s diverse population by providing high quality education, conducting research, and participating in service and outreach within the global community.

• The mission builds on our core values.
• Our intellectual contributions are discipline based, practitioner based, and pedagogically based with greatest emphasis on discipline based research.
• The college embraces necessary goals to provide a quality education from outstanding faculty. These goals are set forth in our Strategic Plan. (See also NMSU’s Living the Vision.)

History and Scope

New Mexico State University is a land grant institution, a Carnegie Research University-High Research Activity, and a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) as designated by the U.S. Department of Education. The College of Business was founded in 1964 and its business programs have been accredited by AACSB International-The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business since 1973. The accounting programs have been separately accredited since 1993.

The College of Business consists of five academic departments offering eight different majors (accounting, economics, finance, general business, information systems, international business, management, and marketing).