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COB Dean Suazo Awards 2025 CSULB

Honors and Awards 2025

Most Valuable Professors - Bruce Sparks, Lecturer, Management & Human Resources Management; Accountancy - Dr. Jessica Robinson, Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management
VolleyBall 2025 Champion THUMB COB

Business and Volleyball Champions 2025

The College of Business cheers the Business Team! For the fourth time in program history, the California State University Long Beach men's volleyball team holds the 2025 NCAA championship title.The final NCAA Men's Volleyball National Championship game took place Monday in Ohio, where the Beach swept UCLA, 25-17, 25-23 and 25-21.
Hieu Nguyen COB 2025

Hieu Nguyen 2024-25 President’s Awards for Outstanding Faculty Achievement

At the COB Hieu has taught at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and has taken students on study abroad programs to South America, Europe and Asia. He has advised numerous MBA/MFA theses as well as those by undergraduate students in the COB Honors program.
Graduates with a gold overlay and Cal State Long Beach's 75th Anniversary logo, which has a large "75."

Commencements 2025

2 Ceremonies May 19, 9:00 AM and 1:30 PM
Jessica Pugh '10 seated with laptop

SCPD Mentoring ~ Building Students' confidence for the workplace

The Student Center for Professional Development (SCPD), a College of Business resource connecting students to mentoring and other services, showed Pugh how she can be part of a robust support system.
COB ICBSC 2025 winning team

Winning Results 61st Annual International Collegiate

CSULB Business Students Succeed at the 61st Annual International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition (ICBSC)CSULB sent 3 amazing teams, two undergraduate teams and one MBA team, to compete in this year's International Business Competition.  They worked all semester and attended the Intensive Phase in Anaheim las
A woman in a "Rams Track & Field" shirt reviews a tax document with an accounting student at the VITA lab.

Real clients, real refunds: CSULB accounting students provide free help to local taxpayers

“Students who volunteer for VITA either figure out they love taxes, or they hate it,” said Sudha Krishnan, chair of CSULB’s Accountancy Department and director of VITA. “There’s no in-between.”
Beach Fin Rising presentation in a COB lecture hall

Finance Symposium March 14

Beach Fin Rising March 14
The Volunteer Income TaxAssistance (VITA) text on screen

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)

Ribbon Cutting COB CSS Deans Sauzo and M. Solt

Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for New CSS Spaces

Honored guests assembled on November 14 2023 at COB Student Center for Success to open the newly renovated and expanded tutoring and advising spaces.
COB Big SMIF team Win CFAOC RFP Competition Classroom

CSULB BIG Students Win 2024 CFAOCF RFP Competition

The Beach Investment Group (BIG) at California State University, Long Beach's College of Business has once again demonstrated its excellence in investment management education. BIG students earned top honors at the 2024 CFA Society of Orange County Foundation's (CFAOCF) Request for Proposal (RFP) Competition for Student Managed Investment Funds, a…
A faculty member and students wearing safety vests while touring a distribution center

COB students observing the supply chain in action.

Cal State Long Beach COB students observing the supply chain in action.