Learning Outcomes and Graduation Rates

There is no greater priority for an institution of higher education than a clear commitment to its Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs). By definition a university seeks to generate and transfer learning. SLOs define that learning and create benchmarks to gauge and to guide its effective delivery.

LIGS University’s SLOs are divided into three interlinked categories, each of which springs from its mission to provide premiere quality education to a global student base at a reasonable cost.

LIGS University SLOs are interrelated in the sense that each level of outcome defines and reflects the others. CLOs, for example, reflect PLOs, which spring from ILOs.

ILO1: Effective Communication Students will be able to identify audiences, assess information provided, interpret needs, and present relevant information using appropriate written, oral, and listening skills and media to meet the needs of the situation.

ILO2: Critical Thinking and Reasoning Students will analyze and explain issues objectively,
interpret and synthesize data and ideas, define their own perspectives and positions, and develop feasible and creative solutions to real world problems.

ILO3: Information Competency Students will demonstrate the ability to identify information needs, effectively and ethically gather, analyze and integrate information from variety of relevant sources of information.

ILO4: Mastery of Knowledge Students will demonstrate advanced knowledge of scientific theory, skills, and perspectives that contribute to the discipline.

ILO5: Diversity and Global Perspective Students will examine individual and group needs, and work effectively and sensitively with diverse populations in multicultural and international environment.

ILO6: Ethical Behavior and Integrity Students will demonstrate awareness of personal and professional responsibility to act in compliance with principles of ethics and integrity in a diverse and global society

PLO1: Knowledge of Business: Students will develop a strategic level of understanding of key business functions to:

1. Apply effective strategies for key business functions especially including management, marketing, human resources, and finance.
2. Identify appropriate management practices for various business settings.

PLO2: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills:  Students will apply relevant critical thinking and problem solving skills to:

1. Create and present solutions for improving business performance.
2. Select and use appropriate tools and research to solve complex managerial problems.

PLO3: Ethical Leadership: Students will identify the impact of leadership and ethics in business to:

1. Synthesize intercultural practices, diversity, and social responsibility.
2. Manifest cultural awareness and sensitivity at strategic and leadership levels in their organizations.

PLO4: Global Professional: Students will integrate a global perspective on management practices and processes to:

1. Identify opportunities through the lens of a cosmopolitan, global perspective.
2. Analyze challenges and practices in local, national and global business communities.

PLO1: Knowledge and Understanding of Business - Students will master all aspects of managing a business with a purpose:

1. Identify and apply theoretical knowledge and practical skills appropriately in a broad, critical, and innovative way.
2. Respond to new situations and challenges with their innovative approach.

PLO2: Problem Solving and Analysis - Students will use the ability to analyze and solve problems with a purpose:

1. Review and summarise complex ideas and information.
2. Gaining new knowledge and developing new approaches in different business areas.

PLO3: Top Leader - Students will develop the mindset of a top leader with the goal of:

1. Actively become aware of ethical dilemmas and value conflicts in a global business environment.
2. Communicate with a diverse group of stakeholders to formulate solutions to ethical issues.

PLO4: Professional Responsibility - Students will develop a sense of professional responsibility with the goal of:

1. Utilize resources in a comprehensive manner that will impact the work of others in a practical, ethical, and socially responsible way.
2. Contribute to the development of practice-based methodologies within the business community.

PLO1: Knowledge and Understanding: Students will demonstrate expert knowledge and understanding in the field to:

1. Provide evidence of depth and range of relevant scholarly knowledge in a complex domain.
2. Assess and analyze the theoretical underpinnings of classic and current academic research at the leading edge of business practice.
3. Select and justify approaches to research tasks and problems using appropriate research methods and tools.

PLO2: Research & Investigation: Students will engage in original research and investigation to:

1. Develop a self-directed scholarly focus that integrates recognition, critical evaluation and articulation of the key components of a meaningful topic for a thorough investigation.
2. Analyze and synthesize relevant academic research in order to create and publish original knowledge of significance to others.
3. Become autonomous in managing their own learning, research and publication of scholarly articles and a credible final dissertation.

PLO3: Cognitive Awareness: Students will recognize and respond as scholarly professionals to:

1. Collaborate ethically with others in support of self-directed scholarship
2. Demonstrate awareness of and sensitivity to the political implications of their scholarship.
3. Analyze and synthesize complex and possibly conflicting ideas in order to redefine knowledge in their area of domain expertise.

PLO4: Global Contribution: Students will incorporate a global perspective to:

1. Develop new research-based approaches and solutions that contribute to new knowledge in their area of domain expertise.
2. Demonstrate awareness of the conceptual underpinnings of ethical dilemmas and conflicts which may arise in a global business environment.
3. Formulate solutions in dialogue with others of various backgrounds, and will demonstrate cultural awareness and sensitivity.

Program Learning Outcomes = ILO-PLO Curriculum Maps

Course Learning Outcomes = PLO-CLO Curriculum Maps

We are committed to transparency and wide understanding of data on student achievement and success. Our student achievement data are:

Our net graduation rate for MBA degree program stands at 57.65% (percentage of graduates completing
the program in three years or less for cohorts with a start year 2011 - 2024)

Our net graduation rate for Ph.D. degree program stands at 37.37% and it is 48.10% for the DBA program (percentage of graduates completing the program in four and a half years or less for cohorts with a start year 2014 - 2024)

Retention and persistence rate is the percentage of students who were still active students 1 year after
the start of the program. Such students were 80.49% in the MBA program, 66.09% in the Ph.D. program
and 69.62% in the DBA program.