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Division: Business Administration
Program: Business Administration
Business Administration - Analyzing markets, organizing resources, motivating people, and managing an enterprise to meet its goals. Students will find this program a great academic program for anyone considering careers in business management, marketing, finance, international business, entrepreneurship, and general business operations.
Have you already experienced the excitement of helping a club, team, or group achieve an important goal? Are you interested in working with others, solving problems, and accepting challenges? Do you have a desire to nourish a creative side and pursue success on your own as an entrepreneur?
Why Business Administration?
Fact 1: More individuals are employed in business than in any other field.
Fact 2: The best business managers today need to prove competency in all the key functional areas of business: accounting, finance, economics, marketing, management, and technology. And more than ever, they need a constant awareness of the expanding global business environment.
Fact 3: Employers these days are demanding that business students obtain an important set of "soft" skills, especially in communication, teamwork, critical thinking, change-management, and ethical decision-making.
Why Business Administration at SJC?
Variety: Students majoring in Business Administration are prepared to be flexible, adaptable, and successful by completing courses that stress three key components for a successful career upon graduation:
- Business sense: Students will gain experience in the cross-functional environment of modern business organizations.
- Critical skills: Not only will students be exposed to the skills needed in all the important business functions, but they will also learn necessary skills in other areas, too, such as communication, teamwork, critical thinking, and change management.
- Personal character: Students will development this priceless trait through being challenged to consider a social and ethical context for evaluating business decision making, strategy, and policy.
Students majoring in Business Administration can choose a concentration in Finance, Human Resource Management, International Business, Marketing, or Management.
- Finance: If your interests lean toward the analytical side of business, or you want sharpened skills in evaluating companies and choosing investment options, then this concentration is for you.
- Human Resource Management and Management: If you want to dig deeper into how to manage and motivate individuals and groups - in profit or nonprofit organizations - then this concentration is for you.
- Marketing: If you want more expertise in researching, developing, and promoting and selling products and services, then this concentration is for you.
- International Business: If you want to obtain skills in economic and political analysis as well as learn about the business practices and policies in other countries, then this concentration is for you.
Dedication to Excellence: After completing basic courses in accounting, finance, marketing, and other business-related subjects, Business Administration students participate in a unique simulation of business analysis and management decision-making. Upperclass students in "The Crucible" work with teammates in a competitive environment to grapple with problems they will encounter on the job. Engaged in discussions and presentations by the entire business faculty, students are challenged, pushed, monitored, evaluated, assisted, and then challenged all over again.
Hands-on Experience: The most successful business students participate in internships prior to graduation. They have interned for such companies and organizations as Bank One, Fifth Third Bank, Disney, BASF, Victoria's Secret, Ernst & Young, and the Wal-Mart Foundation.
Faculty and Class Size: Business Administration faculty at Saint Joseph's College consists of business professionals who hold either a master's degree or doctorate in their fields of expertise and have extensive practical experience. They are fully engaged in students' academic careers by helping them research internship opportunities, conducting mock interviews with business professionals, and evaluating their resumes. Class size ranges between 15 and 25 students.
