Real-World Experience

• ACU's College of Business Administration sponsors the SpringBoard Ideas Challenge, a mini-business plan competition inviting collegiate students and faculty from the Abilene area to pit their business idea against other competitors for a shot at $30,000 in prize money.
• COBA Connections provides career readiness and leadership development for students through career workshops, internships, job shadowing, career days and job placement.
• Leadership Summit is an intensive week-long Christian educational experience intended to critically examine God's call to leadership. Guest speakers meet students and faculty in the mountains of Colorado for this intense week of leadership training.
• The study abroad Global Apprentice Program offers students the opportunity to study in Oxford, England, while competing in a real-life business competition for scholarship money and internships.

Exceptional Degrees

• A management sciences degree prepares students for careers in marketing, E-commerce, entrepreneurship, management, international business, human resource management, law and many others.
• ACU's College of Business Administration is accredited by AACSB International, the highest accreditation body for schools of business. Of the more than 2,000 institutions in the world offering business degrees, only 450 have AACSB accreditation.
• COBA was ranked as a top business school in both Entrepreneur and Business Reform magazines.
• COBA alumnus G. Randy Nicholson earned the No. 9 spot on USA TODAY's "All-Time Invention List" with his invention of pay-at-the-pump technology for gas stations.
  

Faculty Who Make the Difference

• Faculty members have significant industry experience with companies such as Conoco, Marathon, Lockheed Martin, Ford Motor Company and every major accounting firm in the nation.
• Our faculty represent a diverse background of professional experience both domestic and international.