Excellence is always our goal.

Thanks for visiting the Culverhouse College of Commerce. Our recently revised website is part of our ongoing effort to serve students, faculty, staff, alumni, and others who need information about our programs and activities. We invite your feedback and suggestions for improvement. Excellence is always our goal, and we want our website to reflect this goal by being an efficient and useful source of answers for your questions.

In this site, you will find descriptions of each of our academic programs and introductions to the many services and activities available to our stakeholders. The Culverhouse College of Commerce has long been a major provider of quality business education as evidenced by our long list of notable and highly successful alumni. Indeed, our alumni are a major strength of the College, providing financial resources, job opportunities, and sources of current business knowledge for each new generation of students.

In addition to loyal alumni, an excellent learning environment results from a strong team of bright, motivated students, concerned faculty capable of engaging students in developing the skills required in the 21st century economy, and a caring group of advisors, departmental personnel, and technical staff who work together to engineer courses, activities, and services that enable each student to reach her or his goals. We hope your visit to this site will meet your needs and leave you with a sense of the enthusiasm and energy that pervade the Culverhouse College.

Our primary objective is to help students achieve their potential in becoming highly skilled employees in modern business enterprises. A strong classroom experience is at the core of this objective. We continuously evaluate and revise our curriculum to make sure we are on the cutting edge of business education. Along with state of the art facilities and excellent support staff, our curriculum is a major factor in explaining the success of our graduates.

Business education is more than sitting in a classroom. In addition to outstanding classroom instruction, the Culverhouse College provides numerous opportunities for students to develop the problem-solving, communications, and leadership skills demanded by employers. Active learning through technology, cases, projects, internships, and other experiences expands the learning opportunities afforded our students. Students have an opportunity to learn from some of the top scholars in their disciplines. Most courses, from freshman to PhD, are taught by faculty who are dedicated both to quality education and to expanding our understanding of business and economic issues. Scholarship is contagious. It creates knowledge and informs those who are exposed to it about the current state of our society, its problems, and its future. A careful blend of scholarship, outreach, and classroom instruction creates an advantage for our students that is hard to duplicate.

Scholarship, curriculum, outreach, support—you will find them all in our website. Like all of our activities, we hope the site meets your needs and will help you be part of the Culverhouse experience.

Best wishes,

J. Barry Mason, Dean and
Russell Professor of Business Administration