FASTFACTS
- The business administration major is the biggest major at PC.
- Many management majors gain real-world experience by completing intercultural experiences or internships before graduation.
- About 75% of Presbyterian College students serve the community by volunteering.
- According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, management analysts earned a median salary of $83,610 in 2018.
WHAT YOU’LL STUDY
You’ll begin your major in business administration by taking liberal arts courses. These offerings are an attractive feature of your education in the eyes of potential employers and graduate schools.
In your first two years, you take Principles of Financial Accounting, Computer Applications for Business, Principles of Macroeconomics, and Principles of Microeconomics.
In your second two years, your course choices include Management/Organizational Behavior, which covers the planning process, principles of organizing, managing teams, motivating employees, and leadership theory. Sports Marketing includes principles of organizing, managing teams, motivating employees, and leadership theory.
In your last two years, you choose three credit hours among courses such as International Marketing. This course is designed to give students experience in analyzing the marketing environment and applying marketing concepts in a foreign context. In Comparative Economic Systems, you study the principal economic systems important in both the past and the modern world, with emphasis on the basic principles of capitalism and socialism.
You also choose 12 hours of electives among upper-level courses in Business Administration or Economics. You can take business courses that involve travel, including Doing Business in China, Marketing in the European Union, International Union, International Management, Introduction to the Mexican Economy, the Economics of Globalization, and the Economics of Europe: East and West.
MORE INFORMATION
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- BADM Course Descriptions »
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- CO = Co-requisite
- POI = Permissions of Instructor
- PR = Pre-requisite
- RE = Recommended
- XL = Cross-listed
Business Management Careers
According to Payscale, you will earn a median salary of $61,000 as a graduate in the business management field. You might manage business and financial affairs in a business department or manage financial operations, practice growth, marketing and administration.
According to Payscale, an operations manager earns a median salary of $64,000, and a management consultant with experience earns about $88,000.
Like other graduates, you may consider working for companies that hire new graduates in rotational training or in corporate leadership development programs so you can learn in many areas.
You will follow a tradition of success upon graduation. For example, 95% of the class of 2018 began careers, entered graduate school, participated in service opportunities, or entered the U.S. military.
Recent graduates have embarked on careers in many diverse areas, including medical and pharmaceutical sales, electric utilities, banking, health care administration, and management information systems.
Others have gone into careers with public accounting firms and internal auditing and accounting departments of industrial firms. Still other graduates are working in sales or marketing with department stores, office equipment firms, and other related areas.
When it comes to finding a job, our students benefit from the extensive contacts available through our network of successful graduates already in the business world.
CAREER PROFESSIONS
- Team Manager
- Project Management
- Human Resources
- Business Owner
- Operations Management
- Account Executive
- Customer Service
- E-Commerce
FACULTY
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