AACSB

Each year the Business School Questionnaire (BSQ) is completed as part of ongoing AACSB accreditation. The BSQ collects admissions data on our Specialized Masters programs including Work Experience (in months) for new entrants.

Work experience in Salesforce is populated from Apply Yourself (AY). This is self-reported data. The questions asked on the application for each program is as follows:

Specialized Masters (excluding MAcc):

Total professional full-time experience (months)

Total professional full-time post-undergrad degree experience (months)

MAcc:

Total professional full-time experience (months)

Total professional full-time experience post undergraduate degree (months)

MBA:

Years of Professional Full-time Work Experience (At Time of Program Start)

Note: MSF, MRED, and MACC work experience fields are editable in Salesforce. MSIS, MSBA are not editable. MHA is N/A because they have not asked for it.

Jeanine Romano from AACSB providing the following guidance:

Work experience should include post-baccalaureate “professional” experience. So, for example, if someone was delivering pizzas this would not be considered work experience but if someone was working in management, HR, accounting for a pizza delivery company then that would be reported as work-experience.

When asked if we could include work experience during the baccalaureate degree Jeanine provided the following:

It really depends because on the type of experience and for how long. If the experience occurred during their baccalaureate experience you would most likely count it. Say for example someone was working as an accounting assistant but had obtained a full time position before they finished their bachelors degree and then went on to grade school, it would count as work experience. But, if someone did a three month internship their sophomore year, that probably would not count. The purpose of the question is really to determine if the students coming into the program have the type of professional experience that might give them more of a “head start” than someone with no experience.

Salesforce has two work experience fields: "Months of Work Exper" and "Months Work Since Bachelor." Based on Jeanine's response it seems appropriate to use "Months Work Since Bachelor." However, Regina Mavis said for MSF and MRED they use "Months Work Exper" because in some cases they count work experience students had as a baccalaureate if it was meaningful. Since this field is unlocked in Salesforce Regina manually updates "Months Work Exper" to accurately capture experience MSF and MRED feel is meaningful for the students.

The BSQ also collects GMAT and GRE test scores for new entrants. Per AACSB:

GMAT = GMAT Total Scaled Score (range from 200 to 800)

GRE = Sum of the GRE Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning scores (summed range of 230 to 340). This is the Verbal Reasoning score (130 to 170) and the Quantitative Reasoning score (130 to 170) combined into a single aggregate score.

In Salesforce, the GRE score is populated from a PeopleSoft feed. Therefore, rather than pulling this data from Salesforce for AACSB reporting, GRE will be pulled from the Student Data Warehouse (SDW).

GMAT data comes directly from GMAT but the programs also convert GRE scores to GMAT. The question is, should we report converted scores to AACSB?

Ben Repak and Bethany Crowell's preference is that we use SDW to pull GMAT data as well; however, per Andrea Roner in the Registrar's Office, there are only a total of 79 students in our system from ’98 and the last date a TOTAL score was uploaded was 12/30/2015. Overall, that was the same date we uploaded the last GMAT score in PS.

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