Dean's Academy
Benefit from honors curricula, smaller class sizes and exclusive access to thought leaders in business and the community.
Overview
The Dean’s Academy is an academic forum for high-achieving first-year students, transfer students, and current undergraduate students on the Corvallis campus who wish to maximize the educational and experiential aspects of their college experience.
With designated smaller class sizes and access to exclusive leadership events, Dean's Academy students are invited into an educational process designed to encourage intellectual curiosity and active community engagement, and to develop standout graduates who are visionaries and responsible citizens.
The Dean’s Academy is an invitation-based experience with academic standards of achievement for these majors: accountancy, apparel design, business administration, business information systems, design and innovation management, finance, interior design, management, marketing, merchandising management, or supply chain and logistics management. Please discuss this with your College of Business advisor.
Benefits:
- Core business classes with honors-level curriculum
- Smaller classes with Dean’s Academy peers
- Invitations from the dean to attend exclusive forums, seminars, and events.
- Exclusive career development and networking opportunities, such as “How to Stand Out in a Crowd” workshops
- A transcript visible degree option
Creative, driven and a design trailblazer? Turn your passion into a career with a degree in apparel design. Apparel design harnesses creativity and artistic skill with cutting-edge technology, process and design thinking. We're the No. 1 apparel design program in Oregon, and ranked 14th in the nation.
Our business administration degree provides you with broad business skills in accounting and quantitative methods, an understanding of the legal and social environment of business, and a background in management and organizational behavior, marketing, finance, and operations management.
You'll learn through hands-on experience and case study to be able to bridge real-world problems with technical solutions. The main goal is to train people who understand how to extract insight from data and translate the insight into competitive advantage.
You'll graduate not only with strong technical skills and proficiency in various data analytics tools, but also the ability to identify opportunities for data-driven solutions. You'll understand the financial and operational implications of data-driven solutions you've discovered.
Our design and innovation management degree focuses on the intersection of design and business, bringing together analytic and creative problem-solving skills. You'll focus on how design can be integrated into an organization from a management and strategic perspective and learn the value that design and innovation can bring to an organization.
Our interior design program explores how spaces look, feel and function. Using a human-centered approach, students learn how the design of the built environment impacts our productivity, health and emotions. We prepare critical thinkers who can work both independently and as effective members of design teams.
You’ll graduate with a solid business foundation in merchandising topics including global sourcing, consumer behavior, retail merchandise planning and others. And, you're learning with the best — our program is ranked No. 12 in the nation, and No. 1 on the west coast for fashion merchandising by fashion-schools.org.
Ways to Attend
We offer class in the modalities that work for you and your schedule.
Attend in-person in Corvallis and attend your classes in Austin Hall, one of the crown jewels of the OSU campus.
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Our goal: to amplify the voices of women in business to influence business decisions and growth.
