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Business Majors Top Skills

  1. During the Spring Quarter 2007, Rader School of Business (RSOB) students scored in the top 25% of the nearly 9,000 business undergraduates who completed the Major Field Test in Business (MFT-Business) administered by the Educational Testing Service. The MFT-Business is used by 181 colleges and universities as a means to assess student learning. 

In addition to the overall score, the MFT-Business provides breakout analyses in nine business content areas. Highlights of performance in these areas include:

  • RSOB majors combined to score in the top 5% in the area of "Information Systems"
  • RSOB majors combined to score in the top 10% in the area of "Management"
  • management information systems (MIS) majors were in the top 5% in five areas: "Information Systems," "Economics," "Management," "Marketing," and "International Issues"
  • management (BSM) majors scored in the top 15% in the area of "Legal and Social Environment"
  • international business (IB) majors scored in the top five percent in "Management" and in the top 15% in "Economics"
  • business (BUS) majors scored in the top 10% in the area of "Information Systems"
  • the nine content areas that comprise the MFT-Business are: accounting, economics, management, quantitative business analysis, finance, marketing, legal and social environment, information systems, and international issues
  1. First-year competitor, MSOE's Rader School of Business team won first place in five of seven competitions during the Wisconsin Future Business Leaders of America / Phi Beta Lambda State Conference. (Photo above - the steins are their trophies!)
Using entrepreneurial and detective skills, a team of MSOE engineering and business students finished second in the 2007 Chicago Entrepreneurs Quest held Feb. 16 at sites around downtown Chicago.