Business Administration

Business Administration
Tom Kates

Explore Business Administration

Business administration is a wide field that incorporates many types of operational and management positions. Paul College offers undergraduate and graduate programs that will help you build the skills, knowledge and experience to land a job and thrive in today’s evolving economy. By the time you graduate, you will have developed an impressive portfolio of marketable skills—as generalists who want broad exposure to management, or as new entrepreneurs, marketers, systems analysts, financial planners or accountants.

At Paul College, students in the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration major take foundation courses in their freshman and sophomore years that cover the fundamental theories, principles, concepts and skill sets in key areas of business, while building upon their social, analytical, competitive and professional intelligence. These foundation courses prepare you to move into a variety of fields and companies. You also must declare an option within your major during the second semester of your sophomore year that provides deeper expertise in a specific business area to propel you on your career path. Many students choose more than one! Options within the major include: accounting, entrepreneurial studies, finance, information systems and business analytics, international business and economics, management, marketing, and student designed.

Business Administration B.S. Core Requirements

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  • Geno Miller
    B.S. Business Administration, Entrepreneurial Studies | Co-founder & CEO, Shtudy
    Shtudy is a career advancement platform that pre-vets, trains, and connects top Black, Latinx and Native American tech talent of color with companies that are trying to improve diversity and revenue within their workforces. Our goal is to bridge the racial wealth gap in America, and we feel that increasing diversity in tech is the most effective and efficient way of doing that.
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    Michael Swack, Research Professor of Economics at Paul College and Director of the Center for Impact Finance at the Carsey School of Public Policy
    On October 22, 2019, Swack received the 2019 Net Gramlich Lifetime Achievement Award for Responsible Finance. The Award is the highest individual honor available in the field of community development, a field that Swack helped define.
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    “People tend to restrict business ethics to issues of compliance and legal fair dealing,” said Woodman. “I’ve chosen to take a systems approach in which ethics serves the health and wellbeing of the whole. Harm one part, and the whole suffers, hurting the other parts as well.”
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