The mission of the College of Business Administration at Kansas State University is excellence in the advancement and dissemination of knowledge consistent with the needs of students, business, faculty and society. To accomplish our mission, we strive for quality in our intellectual contributions, teaching and service activities. Intellectual contributions include basic and applied scholarship and instructional development. These activities support and foster continuous improvement in teaching and hence are inseparable from it. The College, therefore, places major and approximately equal emphasis on intellectual contributions and teaching, while providing sufficient flexibility to accommodate the unique objectives of individual departments.
Service receives relatively minor emphasis.
Within the area of intellectual contributions, we seek a balance between basis scholarship, applied scholarship and instructional development, while again providing sufficient flexibility to accommodate the unique objectives of each department. These contributions address both domestic and global market environments and are disseminated in the classroom, scholarly and applied journals, professional conferences, books and continuing education courses. Quality teaching goes beyond merely emphasizing a body of knowledge. To maintain the high quality of our degree programs, we continuously review and improve them in accordance with the principles above. The curriculum combines conceptual, analytical and experiential approaches to learning both in and out of the classroom.