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Academic Quality

At Missouri Western, we know academic quality is critical in your college search. That’s why we have more program specific  accreditations (9) than any public university in northwest Missouri including The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), an honor held by less than five percent of business schools worldwide. We are proud to offer this level of quality at an affordable cost.

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MWSU students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Intellectual Skills:

    1. Analyze data and draw conclusions to make evidence-based decisions;
    2. Identify issues and use information and reasoning to make problem solving decisions;
    3. Analyze, evaluate, and create arguments and explanations;
    4. Evaluate and synthesize information using appropriate technology;
    5. Set goals, plan, and manage time;
    6. Formulate a position or argument about an ethical issue from multiple perspectives;

  1. 2. Applied Learning:

Use skills and discipline-specific knowledge in applied learning and/or hands-on settings to support career and vocational readiness in and/or outside of the classroom.

3. Career Preparedness:

    1. Employ collaboration with others to achieve positive outcomes;
    2. Create healthy and mutually-beneficial relationships with others;
    3. Develop an integrated sense of personal identity and a positive sense of self;
    4. Demonstrate effective work habits such as working independently, identifying appropriate resources; taking initiative; managing deadlines, self-assessing, and seeking help when needed;
    5. Apply skills to guide and assist a group, organization, or community in meeting its goals;
    6. Use technologies to enhance efficiencies, complete tasks, and accomplish goals;

4. Civic and Global Engagement:

    1. Appraise civic, social, environmental, and/or economic challenges at local, national, and/or global levels and formulate informed, responsible, and ethical decisions;
    2. Synthesize ideas and arguments from different perspectives (e.g., cultural, technological, political);

5. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    1. Employ openness and empathy for others’ cultural perspectives;
    2. Recognize one’s own cultural biases; 
    3. Interact respectfully with those who are different from one’s self; 
    4. Explain diversity as a source of creativity and innovation;
    5. Recognize viewpoints that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion;  

6. Communication:

    1. Perform effective written, oral, and non-verbal forms of expression across a variety of mediums appropriate to the purpose, audience, and situation;
    2. Examine information, ideas, facts, and perspectives respectfully with persons of varying perspectives;

7. Discipline-Specific Knowledge:

Evaluate the major theories, methods, approaches, and schools of practice within a chosen field of study in and/or outside of the classroom.