Executive Dean: R. Kander
Academic Dean, School of Business Administration: S. Lehrman
Academic Dean, School of Design and Engineering: M. Leonard
Associate Dean: P. Russel
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies: J. Klett
Manager of Academic Operations: M. Sunderland

Faculty: F. Baseman, G. Beatty, C. Beevers, S. Borowsky, J. Brady, D. Brookstein, S. Christoffersen, G. Cooper, T. Corlett, J. Crook, A. Datta, M-E. Faust, S. Finch, G. Frampton, C. Frank, B. George, M. Govindaraj, M. A. Hand, M. Havens, E.J. Herczyk, N. Howard, M. Kradel-Weitzel, M. Leonard, H. Lermack, J. Likens, C.M. Lim, D.K. Malhotra, E. Mariotz, R. Masoodi, J. Naidu, V. Nandikolla, N. Nixon, C. Pastore, R. Poteau, M. Roberts, C. Rusinko, P. Russel, L. Russow, L. Samoni, J. Sanford, J. Solano, L. Sztandera, F. Tovia, H. Ujiie, G. Unger, M. Weiss, N. Wyatt

Philadelphia University’s Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce (C-DEC) provides a multi-dimensional understanding of design, engineering and business by bringing together these rapidly evolving fields in an innovative, integrated educational experience that prepares students to think critically about the world.

The schools of Business Administration and Design and Engineering comprise the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering, and Commerce and its programs provide students with strong disciplinary skills, a balanced grounding in the liberal arts and an understanding of the relationship of their fields to each other and the spectrum of professional careers and opportunities. Faculty from each discipline collaborate to promote in students a heightened self-awareness, the ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams and to use methods for innovating in order to secure the job opportunities of today and to adapt to the emerging fields of tomorrow. The goals of the Kanbar College are to create a dynamic educational platform for students:

• to become professionals who can adapt to the changing work place
• to navigate complexity and understand its underlying frameworks
• to integrate knowledge domains
• to work effectively in teams and value diverse perspectives
• to find new ways of adding value to the world

The Kanbar College offers academic programs in the following degrees, majors and minors:

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Bachelor of Science in Business with the following concentrations:

• Accounting
• Finance
• International Business
• Management: Leadership and Innovation in Organization
• Marketing: Consumer Insight and Innovation

Bachelor of Science in Fashion Fashion Merchandising and Management with the following concentrations: 

• Fashion Merchandising
• Fashion Industry Management

Minors- The following minors are offered in the School of Business Administration.  For more information about the minors see Minors and Concentration section of the Academic Catalog.

• Accounting
• Business
• E-Commerce
• Economics
• Fashion Industry Management
• Finance
• Human Resource
• Management
• International BusinessManagement
• MarketingOrganizational Behavior
• Pre-MBA

Graduate Degrees:
Master of Business Administration- Evening Program, options in:

• Accounting/Certified Public Accountant (C.P.A.) track
• Business Administration
• Finance
• International Business
• Marketing
• Taxation/Certified Public Accountant (C.P.A.) track

Master of Business Administration- Day Program

• Master of Business Administration – One-Year Day Program

Master of Science in the following programs:

• Fashion Apparel Studies
• Taxation

Combined degrees are offered in the following areas:

• B.S. Business/M.B.A.

Non-degree graduate business offerings

• Pre-Master’s Coursework
• Pre-M.B.A. Foundations
• Post-Master’s Coursework
• Accounting
• Finance
• International Business
• Marketing
• Taxation

SCHOOL OF DESIGN & ENGINEERING

Bachelor of Science in Engineering degrees in these engineering majors:

• Engineering (with minor tracks in Architectural, Industrial and Systems, Composites, and Textile Engineering)
• Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor of Science degrees in these design majors:

• Animation
• Fashion Design
• Graphic Design Communication
• Industrial Design
• Interactive Design and Media
• Textile Design
• Textile Materials Technology

The following minors are offered in the School of Design and Engineering.  For more information about the minors see Minors and Concentration section of the Academic Catalog.

• Foundation Design
• Graphic Design Communication
• Multimedia and Visualization Minor (offered with C-ABE)
• Textile Materials Technology

Graduate Degrees

• M.S. Industrial Design
• M.S. Interactive Design & Media(2 and 3-year options)
• M.S. Textile Design
• M.S. in Textile Engineering
• Ph.D. in Textile Engineering and Science

Combined degrees are offered in the following areas:

• B.S. /M.S. Textile Design