The Department of Business Administration provides its majors with a contemporary quality education in Business Administration and Accounting. These students gain an awareness of their individual strengths and vocational interests in order to make appropriate career decisions. The department offers a rigorous, up-to-date curriculum that prepares students for imaginative and responsible citizenship and domestic and international leadership roles in business and accounting. While the programs offered are career-oriented, the department realizes that successful contemporary business and accounting professionals must bring a broad and varied perspective to their careers. Accordingly, the department requires that its majors take at least 66 of the 120 credit hours needed for a degree outside the department, with particular emphasis given to the development of written and oral communicative skills and the acquisition of the ability to think creatively and critically.
The department offers five separate Bachelor of Science degree programs:
• B.S. Accounting
• B.S. Business Administration – Finance
• B.S. Business Administration – Management
• B.S. Business Administration – Marketing
• B.S. Business Administration – Individualized Specialization
Students who major in Business Administration are prepared for a cross-section of opportunities. Recent graduates have embarked on careers in areas ranging from business and management consulting to financial planning for corporations and government. The banking and investment fields also interest many graduates. Other graduates select sales management, insurance, or personnel administration as their field. The department’s programs are also designed to provide the knowledge and skills required for success in major graduate programs.
The Accounting program prepares students for the Certified Managerial Accountant examination (CMA). In addition, this degree in combination with the department’s 150 Hour Program, qualifies graduates to take the Certified Public Accounting (CPA) examination.
There are three major sources of employment for Accounting graduates - public accounting, management accounting, and governmental accounting. Public accounting firms provide clients with a wide variety of services, including auditing, tax consulting, and management advisory services. Management accountants are employed by companies to perform various activities such as cost accounting, budgeting, general ledger accounting, and internal auditing. Governmental accountants, employed by the federal, state, and local governments, have the responsibility to monitor the revenues and expenditures of the public sector. In the federal government, the major sources of employment for accountants include the Internal Revenue Service, General Accounting Office, and Defense Contract Audit Agency.