The Whittemore School of Business and Economics develops students for successful careers and lifelong learning capabilities. We are committed to teaching excellence, quality scholarship, and effective outreach. The school provides a challenging and integrated educational environment that is externally engaged and firmly focused on creating technologically-proficient problem solvers, innovative and critical thinkers, effective communicators, and ethical business leaders.

In pursuing our mission, we dedicate ourselves to:

• Develop strong partnerships with business, government and not-for-profit communities to provide learning experiences for students and faculty and to establish the School as a research and educational resource for these communities.
• Foster and support a culture that values the strong commitment of faculty to the education of our students.
• Develop, evaluate, and revise curricula, courses, and programs to provide students with a current and relevant educational experience.
• Continue to build a strong research reputation, with an emphasis on applied research, through faculty publications in refereed journals, presentations at conferences, and academic contributions to professional organizations.
• Enhance the quality of education through engagement of students in faculty research projects and faculty-mentored student research initiatives.
• Facilitate, support, and develop areas of research expertise that are recognized on a national and international level.
• Encourage and support all forms of quality scholarship in recognition that a breadth of intellectual activities enhances the school's reputation and outreach, and supports the students' learning experience.
• Seek to attract, admit and retain students who exceed University standards.
• Support and advise graduate and undergraduate students in their selection of programs, electives, internships, careers, and placement decisions.