Business Management
Business Management: Tomorrow’s Leaders Start Here
To be a successful business manager, you need strong administrative, quantitative, and communication skills. Does this sound like a match for you?
Business Management with a focus on Entrepreneurship
We need leaders of greatness to uphold equality and justice for all who can embrace bright ideas and see other’s potential. Leaders who have witnessed the value of inclusivity and equitability they find at Keene State, and can create more of it in the world.
Business Management with a focus on Human Resource Management
Are you a people person? As you probably know, an organization’s most important resource is its people. Like our campus-wide inclusive culture, you’ll learn how to value people, develop their strengths and support their challenges as all great business managers do. Ready to become your organization’s MVP?
Business Management with a focus on Marketing
Effective marketing skills take creative decision-making, critical thought, and ever-changing solutions. It’s about understanding the consumer, the product, and the demands of the world around you. It’s all right at your fingertips, waiting for you to tap into it.
Program Options
Internship and cooperative education experiences are offered to business management majors in a wide variety of for-profit and nonprofit settings. These programs provide part-time and full-time opportunities for students to apply their classroom learning in structured workplace settings.
Through participation in these programs, students gain valuable career-related work experience while earning college credit. The Business Management Department has ongoing relationships with area employers committed to providing interesting and challenging assignments designed to meet the needs of both intern and employer.
Business management programs are enhanced by curricular and co-curricular offerings designed to foster student engagement and reward academic excellence. The Small Business Institute (SBI) and Delta Mu Delta (DMD) offer students opportunities to broaden their horizons and deepen their skills.
Career Opportunities
As a Business Management major, you obtain the skills required to pursue careers in a wide range of private, public, and nonprofit fields, as well as for graduate study. Opportunities for each specialization include:
Entrepreneurship: Self-Employed business person, partner in new start-up ventures, franchise owner
Human Resources Management: Human resources manager, recruiter, compensation or benefit analyst/manager
Marketing: Product manager, market analyst, research director
Sports Management: Corporate partnerships coordination, sport facility operations manager, financial and contract analyst
Outcomes
The Keene State College Business Management Department engages future leaders — in business, government, and the nonprofit sector.
The program prepares students by providing them with a strong foundation in the liberal arts, along with the management skills required to solve complex problems in an increasingly competitive global environment.
Our students develop communication, quantitative, analytical, technical, collaborative, and team-building skills.
Business Management, B.S., Total Credits 120
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