The Steven L. Craig School of Business provides undergraduate majors with relevant business knowledge, critical thinking abilities, and professional skills through classroom and applied learning opportunities. We integrate entrepreneurial activities into our learning processes. Our faculty engage in research that complements and expands, applied, discipline-based, and pedagogical knowledge. Through all of these activities, we contribute to the leadership of Missouri Western State University as the New American Regional University serving a geographic region centered in St. Joseph, Missouri. (Mission Statement, revised and approved, May 2009)

The Steven L. Craig School of Business prepares professionally-oriented students for the future by offering baccalaureate degrees in accounting, finance, management and marketing and an associate degree in business. These degrees provide basic skills in mathematics, written and oral communication, and computer usage, broad perspectives on the world through general studies courses, and knowledge of current business decision-making practices and strategic perspectives through major courses.