2026 Business Assessment Results Highlight Academic Excellence at Lutgert College of Business

October 20, 2026 / Lutgert News / Tags: Finance, Assessment, Analysis, Accounting, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Undergraduate, Computer Information Systems, Testing, Analytics & Informatics

Spring 2026 results highlight strong performance among graduating seniors in accounting, economics, finance, information systems and other business disciplines.

Graduating seniors from Florida Gulf Coast University's Lutgert College of Business (LCOB) demonstrated strong academic performance on the Spring 2026 ETS Business Major Field Test (BMFT), with several programs ranking among the top 10% nationally in their respective disciplines.

A total of 438 LCOB graduating seniors completed the assessment, which evaluates students' knowledge across core business disciplines. Their performance was compared against a national benchmark of 67,824 students from 344 universities who completed the assessment between 2021 and 2025.

Highlights of Student Achievement

LCOB's top performers scored within the top 10% of the national benchmark in the following disciplinary questions.

Accounting

Accounting seniors delivered some of the college's strongest results, achieving:

- - Top 1% in Accounting
  - Top 5% in Overall BMFT Score
  - Top 7% in Finance
  - Top 10% in Legal and Social Environment
  - Top 10% in International Business

Accounting seniors also achieved top-quartile performance (top 25% nationally) across four additional disciplinary question categories:

- - Top 13% in Information Systems
  - Top 16% in Quantitative Business Analysis
  - Top 21% in Management and Marketing

Economics and Quantitative Economics

Students majoring in Economics and Quantitative Economics demonstrated strong analytical and global business knowledge, ranking:

- - Top 2% in Economics
  - Top 2% in International Business
  - Top 6% in Quantitative Business Analysis

Finance

Finance seniors ranked in the top 3% nationally on finance-related questions, demonstrating strong knowledge of their discipline.

Computer Information Systems and Analytics & Informatics

Seniors in Computer Information Systems and Analytics & Informatics ranked in the top 7% nationally in Information Systems.

Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain seniors achieved top-quartile performance (top 25% nationally) across three disciplinary question categories:

- - Top 13% in Legal and Social Environment
  - Top 18% in Quantitative Business Analysis
  - Top 23% in Information Systems

Measuring Business Knowledge Beyond the Major

The ETS Business Major Field Test is a graduation requirement for LCOB students and serves as an indirect assessment of learning for the college's Business Common Core curriculum.

While the results highlight strong achievement within individual majors, the assessment also provides insight into students' broader understanding of business concepts, from finance and management to economics and quantitative analysis.

Across all 438 graduating seniors, Finance and Quantitative Business Analysis achieved the college's strongest overall national percentile rankings, placing in the top 35% and top 53%, respectively.

Looking at the raw scores of all LCOB graduating seniors, the highest percentages of correct answers were in the following disciplinary questions:

Management: 54% correct answers, 24th percentile
Marketing: 51% correct answers, 34th percentile
Legal and Social Environment: 49% correct answers, 26th percentile
Economics: 49% correct answers, 29th percentile

These disciplinary scores were also high across the national benchmark population, so they did not result in high percentile rankings compared with the benchmark.

Supporting Continuous Academic Improvement

The ETS BMFT is both a graduation requirement and an indirect assessment of learning for the Business Common Core. Its purpose is to assess the general business knowledge of LCOB graduating seniors against a substantial national benchmark. The Business Common Core and Common Prerequisites are intended to help students develop knowledge not only in their disciplinary specializations but also across business disciplines. Faculty will discuss what the results indicate about how well that goal is being achieved at LCOB compared with the national benchmark.

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