MSU business students excel on national test
May 13, 2019
BOZEMAN — Graduating seniors from Montana State University’s Jake Jabs College of Business and Entrepreneurship have excelled on a national test administered to students at hundreds of U.S. business colleges.
The average score of the 154 MSU seniors who took the Major Field Test for the Bachelor’s Degree in Business this spring was higher than the average score of seniors at 94% of the 496 schools that have administered the test over the last two years, according to Bill Brown, management professor who has overseen the administration of the assessment to more than 2,000 business seniors at MSU since 2005.
The major field test for business, also called the MFT-B, is published by the Educational Testing Service, the same organization that publishes the SAT and GRE. The widely used test is designed to assess the business knowledge and business problem-solving capability of senior students in domestic undergraduate business programs. In the last two years, approximately 70,000 graduating business seniors at 500 colleges and universities nationwide have taken the test.
Brown said the average score of MSU business seniors has consistently hovered around the 90th percentile compared to other universities, but he said that the spring 2019 seniors earned one of the highest scores ever recorded at the college.
"We have an excellent undergraduate business program and excellent students taking it,” Brown said. “The men and women in our program are hard working, conscientious and respond well to all of the challenges we put in front of them. Our scores on the MFT-B, and these most recent scores in particular, reassure us about the content of our curriculum and our practical, applied approach to teaching. Our students have every reason to feel confident that their education has put them in a strong position when competing for professional positions with students from anywhere.”
The MSU Jake Jabs College of Business and Entrepreneurship offers four undergraduate options of study, including accounting, finance, management and marketing, as well as five minors, including accounting, business administration, entrepreneurship and small business management, finance and international business. The college also offers a master of professional accountancy degree, a business certificate and entrepreneurship certificate. For more information, visit montana.edu/business/index.html.
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