Title: Student advisement on courses sequencing in teaching-focused business-schools

Authors: Ardavan Asef-Vaziri

Addresses: Department of Systems and Operations Management, College of Business and Economics, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330-8245, USA

Abstract: Students in teaching-focused business-schools need a level of assistance and advisement broader and more profound than what is needed in R1&R2 schools. We investigate the informal interdependencies among marketing, finance, operation, and management core courses in these schools. By conducting hypothesis tests on a large dataset, we identify a flexible network showing the preferred sequencing of these courses to improve students' performance as measured by the course grade. Better performances in this context may also lead to higher retention-rates and lower time-to-degree. We recommend taking Finance or Finance and Management as the first course(s). Marketing should be the next course before or concurrent with Operations Management. Regarding the lower division courses, it is recommended to take Statistics before Economics and Accounting courses and Accounting before or concurrent with Economics. We also consider the significant role of a milestone course that links the lower division and core courses.

Keywords: core courses precedence; student success; time-to-degree; retention rate; lower division courses; state-funded teaching-focused business-schools; SFTFBSs.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTCS.2024.139192

International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies, 2024 Vol.14 No.4, pp.307 - 324

Received: 04 Feb 2023
Accepted: 27 Mar 2023
Published online: 24 Jun 2024 *

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