Allied Programs
BVU's interdisciplinary management degrees connect studies within business with other disciplines, helping to prepare you for careers in the business aspects of creative, technological, athletic and political enterprises. These degrees are Arts Management, Exercise Science - Sport Management, Management Information Systems (MIS), Communication Studies - Corporate Communication and Political Science / Public Administration.
Business Majors
Do you value exactness and accuracy? Are you skilled at quantifying things? If so, accounting may be the career for you. All businesses and government agencies need skilled people to keep track of their finances. With a degree in accounting, you could put your skills to work for any number of different organizations, or go into business for yourself to help individuals assess their holdings and income.
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Are you curious why the things you buy are priced the way they are? How companies decide what to pay their employees? How the decisions of farmers, food distributors, and grocery stores determine how much you pay for an ear of corn? If you want to learn how to apply problem solving, theory and math to find out how these processes work – and how you might be able to find more efficient methods and solutions – keep reading.
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If you get a thrill from watching money grow and investments pay off, if you dream about crunching the numbers that help companies grow their fortunes, then maybe you're a born financier - someone who helps businesses and other organizations make and manage money. Through the finance and banking program, you'll learn skills to help grow businesses' and individuals' money in the short and long terms.
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Choose this major if you want to combine your love of travel with a sense of – and practical skills for – business. Is the idea of packing a suitcase, boarding a plane, and getting paid while you traverse the globe exciting? Are you creative and enterprising? The business world is ever-flattening, and needs people who both know how to use technology to communicate with the other side of the world, and how to travel there to do business in person.
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Excellent managers leverage their company’s resources and the talents of those around them to encourage the best possible outcomes. They have to understand the goals of the business, their own abilities, and others’ skills to achieve their goals. If you would like to develop these talents in yourself, you may want to consider a degree and career in management.
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Do you enjoy networking computer together, building databases to track information, and collecting and analyzing data? It's what businesses do all the time to learn how to serve their customers better, see what products are selling best (and why), and learn about their customers buying habits. Many professionals who coordinate this data and the programs that analyze it work in a field called management information systems (MIS), combining business expertise with computer skills.
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How does a product become all the rage...the iPod everyone must have, the Wii that outsells its more technologically powerful competitors, the Tickle Me Elmo that dominates the holiday season and has customers flocking to the stores at 5 a.m. just for a chance to buy one? A lot of it is due to the marketing team, people who understand what customers want and what just might make a product irresistible to them.
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Business Minors
A minor in business will provide non-business majors an opportunity to gain some exposure and breadth to the study of business. This is desirable because a minor in business may enhance a student's education and job placement.
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Are you curious why the things you buy are priced the way they are? How companies decide what to pay their employees? How farmers, food distributors, and grocery stores determine what is charged for an ear of corn? If questions like these intrigue you and math is one of your favorite subjects, keep reading.
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A minor in sales provides non-marketing majors with both academic knowledge and practical experience to build an excellent foundation for a career that is both flexible and financially rewarding.
This is only available as a minor.
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