The Business Administration Degree is designed to provide detailed knowledge covering a wide range of functions that are necessary for business operations.
The Business Administration Degree is designed to provide detailed knowledge covering a wide range of functions that are necessary for business operations.
While a major component of the degree focuses on the management of leadership of people, it also gives the student insight and experience in all business functions including accounting, finance, economics, marketing, and operations. The graduate will possess the skills required of managers and leaders, and be able to communicate across multi-functional business departments. Additionally, business administration will equip the graduate with skills to develop policies and procedures, oversee the production of both products and services, manage company finances, staff departments, manage performance and substantially contribute on a team that builds a business or an organization.
A Business Administration degree prepares the graduate to excel in a wide range of business scenarios.
Businesses of all types need future leaders who are capable of performing the basic management functions such as planning, organizing, motivating, staffing, and controlling. Graduates will also be versed in the basic functions of business which include accounting, finance, economics, ethics, marketing, and operations management. A degree in Business Administration gives the graduate the flexibility to handle many different business positions in many different industries.
Our Business Administration Degree is designed to provide students with a strong foundation in the main business functions including general business administration fields such as: accounting, finance, project management, human resources, marketing, international business, and organizational behavior. With these skills students will be able to perform in a wide variety of careers. A special feature of the Galen Business Administration degree is the opportunity to concentrate in fields of study that will allow the student to become not only a well-rounded business administrator but also a specialist in the areas of Accounting, Economics, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice.
Key courses that students will take in our accounting program include:
Additionally, the degree in Business Administration includes the opportunity to specialize in a concentration in Accounting, Economics, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice.
The program provides students with several career options: