Business and Management

Accreditation

In addition to institutional accreditation by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE), NEC is also accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) for the following business programs:

• BA Business Administration online and residential, all concentrations
• MBA, all concentrations, English and Spanish
• MBA Executive program, all concentrations

Mission Statement
We offer the most current career-relevant tools and practical experiences to a diverse population to enable them to be successful in the global workplace. We create opportunities for students to develop critical thinking, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills through learning practical tools enabling success in the global workplace. Please click here to see our core faculty.

Values
As a team, the Management Division believes:

• In being open, transparent, approachable, and responsive to increase connection to our students.
• In creating an inclusive environment where anyone can feel like they belong.
• In developing students who take ownership of their learning experience.
• In developing our students to be ethical and responsible citizens including service to the community.
• In supporting students to develop their own intellectual curiosity and ability to cope with challenges in positive ways.
• In promoting curiosity in our students, to develop the whole person to think, be creative, and to engage with the world to solve social and business problems.

Strategic Vision
The business and management programs of the future will prepare students for specific careers and tasks in the workplace. The management division’s focus towards strategic development and differentiation are initiatives related to experiential education and career/professionally oriented studies which are intended to provide students with job applicable skills, a real-world orientation, and high impact, immersive experiences.

Strategic Initiatives

1) From the 2017-22 Management Division Strategic Plan:

• Improve branding of NEC Management Division by achieving ACBSP accreditation.

2) From 2020-25 NEC Strategic Plan (college-level):

• Plan new, distinctive majors, revise current scalable majors.
• Develop a process to evaluate new, distinctive majors, revise current scalable majors.
• Explore MBA in Spanish/LAMPRO (domestic and international programs)
• Explore 3-year college degrees (Criminal justice, Business, etc.)

3) Embed field trips into capstone courses in all undergraduate majors and virtual corporate field trips for all graduate majors.

4) Develop professional portfolio creation process for students to collect works and demonstrate skills by graduation.

At NEC, we take pride in our progress towards data-driven decision making as well as assessing the success of our students in the different components of their educational experience. The PDF documents linked below show indicators of retention and graduation, alumni success in employment and pursuit of advanced studies, and alumni opinions on the quality of their educational experience at the College.

First Destination Survey—2021–2022
First Destination Survey—2020
Retention and Graduation Rates

Executive Graduate Program Student Employment

• Employers
• Job Titles