The faculty, through its highly qualified and experienced academic staff, provides quality teaching and learning environments in its respective departments. Students are provided with strong support from class advisors and engage with up-to-date international literature and course materials in their classes. Moving forward, the faculty seeks to increase the campus facilities for students who want to study or conduct research. Moreover, students and academic staff to have the possibility to access online data sources of the university even outside of the campus. Through the main webpage of the university, it is offered the digital archive called “JSTOR” in order to get updated with the latest academic publications on the economic fields. The number of prestigious online sources is going to be enhanced furthermore to make the departments competitive in the market. In addition, faculty aims to support departments with the annual subscriptions indifferent newspapers and business journals.

Specific goals for theme 1:

Goal 1.1: Attracting highly qualified and experienced academic staff.

Goal 1.2: Strengthening the triangle: university – student – staff.

Goal 1.3: Ensuring the modern teaching instruction technologies.

Goal 1.4: Increasing of the research activities of staff members.

Measures in order to reach mentioned goals under Theme 1:

Measure 1.1: Increasing the faculty size by at least two new full-time members in each department.

Measure 1.2: Building strong relationships between student and staff through a variety of common activities like in teaching, advising, project supervision etc.

Measure1.3: Providing an up-to-date infrastructure for ensuring a high-quality teaching environment.

Measure 1.4: Ensuring the access of staff and students in online data sources for scientific research.

In order to recruit good students from high schools there should be cooperation between our departments and high school representatives through a variety of competitions, workshops, and other face-to-face meetings, especially with high school students in their final year of studies. Through those initiatives, we seek to attract talented students to our faculty programs. Also, introducing new programs to high school students will create additional chances for increasing student number in the faculty. Diversifying the class and creating additional opportunities for international experiences will also remain a priority for the Faculty.

 Specific goals for the Theme 2:

Goal 2.1: Participation of the faculty members at the student club activities for arranging different competitions with high school students.

Goals 2.2: Increasing the scholarships opportunities for highly qualified students.

Goals 2.3: Increasing class diversity.

Measures in order to reach mentioned goals under Theme 2:

Measure 2.1: Activities from “Marketing Zone”; “Entrepreneurs Club” or “Young Economist Network” will contribute to realizing competitions for recruiting high-level students.

Measure 2.2: Presenting to shareholders the strategy for increasing student number and scholarship funds to be included in the university budget.

Measure 2.3: Expanding the international dimension of teaching & learning.

The faculty is committed to offer a variety of programs for graduate students. Therefore, increasing the number of graduate students is another priority for us. Based on market conditions understood through surveys, there are opportunities to explore new programs at the master level in numerous fields, including service marketing, advertising, and loan management. The faculty remains supportive to external agreements for offering double degrees to our students through international collaboration with western universities. To draw even with other highly ranked peers and to support a rapidly expanding research portfolio, the faculty, needs to grow its graduate student population. As for its undergraduate students, diversifying the graduate student population and creating additional opportunities for international experiences are our priorities.

Specific goals for the Theme 3:

Goal 3.1: Increase graduate student enrollment and success.

Goal 3.2: Opening new graduate programs.

Measures in order to reach mentioned goals under Theme 3:

Measure 3.1: Increase in number of Epoka University students and other students from Albanian universities, public and regional administration and international institutions. There is an increase by 20% of our students registering in one of our graduate programs. Also, seems that there is around 15% increase in number of registered students coming at our graduate programs from other universities.

Measure 3.2: Opening two or more master programs in the fields of business and banking and finance including marketing and loan management profiles.

It is a fact that even though the PhD students’ enrolment in our faculty started in 2012-2013, their number throughout the years is still modest. In the last year university offered to the PhD students funding opportunities for their research. In the next five years we should do more to attract students and researchers. The faculty in collaboration with our departments will be a major contributor to the university's goal of making advancement in the fields of economics and business and increasing the number of projects, conference participations and research publications. In the upcoming years, we may think to offer more interdisciplinary courses in our PhD programs. At the same time, new promotional and financing strategies shall be applied.

Specific Goals for Theme 4:

Goal 4.1: Engagement in interdisciplinary research between departments and research centers.

Goal 4.2: Continuous support with projects funding and promotion of student publications.

Goal 4.3: Increasing number of qualified staff that are ready to supervise PhD students.

Measures in order to reach mentioned goals under Theme 4:

Measure 4.1: Collaboration with all departments in faculty level for interdisciplinary courses.

Measure 4.2: Collaboration with university decision making bodies for funding opportunities.

Measure 4.3: Recruiting more professors as PhD supervisors, according to the law.

The academic staff members of the Faculty have shown a good performance in conference participations, paper publications and other academic activities throughout the years. Faculty staff and students have published numerous papers. However, the Faculty needs to make some efforts to support the department staff members to increase the research productivity and to encourage faculty publication in highly ranked and international journals. In order to deliver high teaching quality to the students, the academic staff must be committed with research and publications. As mentioned also in previous paragraphs, the research environment should be inspirational for scholars. Furthermore, a better balance between teaching load and scientific research activities must be achieved.

Specific goals for Theme 5:

Goal 5.1: Encourage and support faculty staff to increase research productivity and quality.

Goal 5.2: Building research capacity among PhD students and to motivate them to disseminate and critically apply research.

Goals 5.3: Negotiate with business journals, organizations, and research centers by having access for data gathering and elaboration.

Measures in order to reach mentioned goals under Theme 5:

Measure 5.1: Continuing to support academics participating in scientific events and promoting journal publications.

Measure 5.2: Increasing the number of internal full-time faculty to rebalance staff workload and allow more time for research and consulting.

Measure 5.3: Prepare strategies for those staff members who have low research activities and outcomes.