Business Administration, Entrepreneurial Studies Concentration, B.S.

About the Programs

The program leading to the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration is based upon a philosophy of total student development. Students choosing this degree program are provided with an education that stresses an interdisciplinary approach. They are exposed to all aspects of the complex and changing business environment with a specific emphasis upon social, cultural, and political factors.

The total development objective creates a program blending a business education with that of the liberal arts. All students choosing a degree in business administration take a common core of 10 courses such as Principles of Management, Marketing, Human Resources Management, and a capstone course called Business Policy and Strategic Planning. Additional courses are required in economics, accounting, math, computer information systems, English, social sciences, and humanities.

The program includes sufficient electives to allow students the option of a dual concentration if they plan their program of study carefully. In addition, the liberal arts component provides a sound foundation for both behavioral and quantitative business majors through the broadening of the students’ social and cultural backgrounds.

Students in the business administration program gain an in-depth study of all facets of the business world. Students will study accounting, business law, human resource management and management problems and policies.

Classroom discussions are designed to help the student grasp fundamental principles and to motivate utilization of these principles in solving typical management problems.

Students graduating in business administration are qualified to assume positions as management trainees, working toward middle and upper-level management positions in a variety of businesses. Credits earned in the associate program are fully applicable toward the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

Core Student Learning Outcomes

1. Communications and Leadership Skills: Students will be able to give and exchange information within meaningful context and with appropriate delivery and interpersonal skills.
2. Strategic and Critical Thinking Skills: Students will be able to link data, knowledge, and insight together to provide quality advice for strategic decision-making.
3. Focus on the Customer, Client and Market: Students will be able to anticipate and meet the changing needs of clients, employers, customers, and markets better than competitors,
4. Interpretation of Converging Information: Students will be able to interpret and provide a broader context using financial and non-financial information.
5. Technologically Adept: Students will be able to utilize and leverage technology in ways that add value to clients, customers and employers. Students will be able to use information technology as a tool to do essential business tasks.
6. Ethics: Students will be able to apply effective ethical decision-making. Students will be able to apply business-related legal and ethical principles in business and apply them to organizational decision making.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Students will be able to give and exchange information within the context of business, opportunity identification, business planning and growth, and venture analysis using language appropriate to the disciplines.
2. Students will be able to integrate business skills (including, but not limited to, idea generation, feasibility study and business plan creation, and venture analyses) into the discipline of business administration, new venture creation, and business planning and growth.
3. Students will be able to work at a competency level in business administration and entrepreneurial studies that addresses opportunities and growth for stakeholders.
4. Students will be able to formulate, evaluate, and communicate ideas and solutions using multiple sources of quantitative and qualitative business market-based information.
5. Students will be competent in business technologies and platforms essential to business administration, business planning, and opportunity analysis functions.
6. Students will be able to identify and critically reason through ethical dilemmas related to business administration and entrepreneurial ventures.
7. Students will have the mastery of practical skills necessary for careers in business administration, business planning and growth, and venture development.