The Bachelor program in Business Administration at UDLA aims to prepare its graduates with an entrepreneurial spirit and critical thinking skills that will render them capable of efficiently planning, organizing, and managing business organizations.
Graduates analyze potential market opportunities and evaluate the technical and financial viability for creating new business projects. As for existing organizations, they develop and implement strategies oriented to improve organizational performance. In addition, the graduate will engage in decision-making and problem-solving processes at different levels within the organization, applying quantitative methods along with information and communication technologies.
Graduates will be able to take on management, coordination, and direction in different departments in the public and private sectors, at national and international levels. They will be able to link their management knowledge with their finance and marketing knowledge for the creation of innovative business models and strategies. The graduate is expected to perform his duties with ethics and social responsibility, in pursuit of encouraging positive change in business organizations.
Demographic Data: Program headcount totals the number of students enrolled yearly and a breakdown by men and women. Enrollment by ethnicity presents data on the most representative ethnic groups of the program.
Student Completion:
Retention and graduation rates are calculated through the 2020-2021 academic year, based on new, first-time students entering in the fall semester, regardless of whether they enroll in the daytime or evening version of their program (if available). These rates do not consider incoming transfer students. Retention rates are calculated in 1 and 2 years.
Graduation rates are calculated according to each program’s duration length (100%) and within 150% of the normal time for a bachelor’s degree. The percentage of graduates in each cohort by gender considers only actual graduates, not the original makeup of the cohort.
Scholarship information: Information is divided by the type of scholarship granted.
Geographic Data: Presents the composition of the students of the program.
Add'l. Demogr. Data: Includes information on marital status, disability, and first-generation students.
In every semester, the program provides assessment results according to its Multiannual Assessment Plan (MAP), which typically considers one or more of its program learning outcomes (PLOs). Most programs utilize the platform Brightspace to collect and assess student work and to present the data and evidence of student achievement. These results and their analysis, with the objective of identifying areas for improvement, are presented in the program’s annual assessment report. In the graphic below, the most recent period in which a PLO has been assessed is indicated, with the percentage indicating achievement of the expected performance standard for that PLO, according to the rubric used to evaluate the student work. This standard can be designated at an introductory, intermediate, or final level, depending upon how the course learning outcomes (CLOs) align to each PLO in the program’s curriculum map.