University & Community

California State University, Chico (CSUC) is located in Chico, CA, a treelined community with a population of approximately 100,000. Chico serves as the commercial, recreational, agricultural, and medical center for northeastern California.
It is located near the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and is 175 miles mortheast of San Francisco and 90 miles north of Sacramento.

The university occupies 120 acres and is said to be the most beautiful in the CSU system. Big Chico Creek passes through the verdant campus, which has over 40 varieties of trees.

The student population is approximately 15,000, about 2,000 of whom are graduate students in over 20 graduate programs.

The University library contains about two million documents, and online access is available to all libraries in the CSU and UC systems.

Chico State has a distinguished faculty-award-winning scholars, artists, and reserchers in every field of study.

 

College of Business

The CSU, Chico College of Business is accredited by American Assembly of collegiate Schools of Business(AACSB). Only 280 of the 1,200 business programs in the US share this distinction.

Over 300 major companies recruit at the university each year. Among them are Hewlett-Packard, SAP, Accenture, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Deloitte & Touche, Chevron, Intel, Apple, Micron, Applied Materials and BearingPoint. Many MBA and MSA alumini work for these and other prominent companies.

The College of Business at CSU, Chico has state-of-the-art equipment that is availble to students in several computer labs. The use of technology to enhance learning effectiveness is emphasized.

Graduate students in business have a separate computing lab, as well as a private group meeting and study area.

Membership in the Graduate Business Assciation(GBA) provides business graduate students with the opportunity to network with peers, faculty, alumni, and company representatives.

 

Graduate Programs

Degree programs offered are the Master of Business Administration (MBA).

The MBA is designed to prepare its participants for challenging managerial positions in an ever-changing global areana. Students may choose an emphasis in management Information Systems (MIS), Production/Operations management, Marketing, Management, Finance, Human Resource Management, or Small Business Management.

The MBA with MIS Emphasis focuses on managing organizations using Enterprise Resourse Planning (ERP). The program provides students with the managerial and technical backgrounds to become managers in an ERP environment. The CSUC College of Business ERP software used in industry today. Advanced courses in Networking, Oracle, and e-commerce are also availble.

The MS in Accountancy degree prepares students to be professional accountants or accounting system managers. Students can create an emphasis in Accounting Systems, Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, or Auditing.

 

 

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