Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business: History of Excellence
The Tommy & Victoria Baker School of Business at The Citadel will educate and develop leaders of principle to serve a global community through experiential learning. We are an AACSB internationally accredited institution with historical military roots of excellence in education emphasizing leadership development.
Our Mission & Values
The mission of The Citadel’s Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business (BSB) is to educate and develop innovative leaders of principle to serve a global community.
Our teaching, scholarship, and service are based on our commitment to these values:
- Integrity and respect for others,
- Professional and intellectual development of all members of the BSB community, and
- Excellence through valuing innovation, diversity, and continuous improvement.
Our Competencies
The Tommy & Victoria Baker School of Business is part of a teaching institution with a long tradition of high-quality education and leadership development in undergraduate and graduate education. We value teaching first but recognize that scholarship and service are its essential complements. We encourage and reward all types of scholarship, emphasizing a balance between applied and pedagogical research, with discipline-based scholarship in a supporting role.
Our focus on leadership development arises from our historical roots as The Military College of South Carolina. The core undergraduate program requires that all students be members of the South Carolina Corps of Cadets. Supplementing our unique undergraduate mission, we offer a variety of undergraduate programs, face-to-face, online, and blended, including cadet, veterans, and degree completion. These programs are complemented by our face-to-face, online, and blended graduate programs.
Our Aspiration
- We will be the undergraduate business school of choice for those who aspire to leadership positions in business, the military, or public service and who recognize the beneficial developmental environment that a military school offers.
- We will be among the select graduate business schools for working professionals who aspire to become principled leaders in their organizations.
Within The Citadel and nationally, we will be recognized as a leading, innovative business school that consistently:
- Prepares students for a variety of business career fields by offering a wide range of courses
- Offers career planning, mentoring, experiential learning, and internship programs to assist students in making career choices,
- Interacts globally through study and travel options for students and faculty,
- Provides outreach to the region and serves as a resource in its economic development, and
- Supports faculty excellence in the areas of teaching, scholarship, and service.
Top ranked by U.S. News & World Report
The Citadel is ranked as the Best Regional University in the South and has also been consecutively named Best Public University in the South by U.S. News & World Report for 14 years. The Citadel is also named the #1 College for Veterans in the South.
Our online MBA program is ranked #37 in the country and is the highest ranked in South Carolina for the fourth consecutive year.
"I am proud to announce the extension of our AACSB accreditation — an affirmation of our unwavering commitment to academic excellence, faculty impact and student success."
In the first 10 years of the Baker Business Bowl, only one team has come out on top as the winner and went home with the grand prize to start their business. But this year is a first for the event, with two teams tying for 1st place.
Four new honorees will be inducted into the Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business Hall of Fame on April 3, 2025.