Additional Information
All management majors must comply with College of Business requirements for a bachelors degree.
The Management major focuses on using resources to achieve goals in organizations. It studies the activities and operations that bring together human, financial, material, and information resources. Management majors should graduate with an understanding of the business world and a set of tools to manage successfully parts or all of an organization’s operations. The Management degree allows students the ability to customize their degree within one of four focus areas:
1) Entrepreneurship Focus - The Entrepreneurship specialization is designed to equip students with the skills, knowledge, and mindset to launch and manage their own businesses or manage innovation streams within existing organizations. Students will learn how to identify opportunities, assess risks, develop business models, and execute strategies in dynamic and competitive environments. The program emphasizes essential competencies for entrepreneurship through hands-on, experiential curriculum.
2) Hospitality Management Focus - An experiential-learning focused program designed to provide students an understanding of the operations of multiple domains of the hospitality industry including food and beverage, tourism and lodging, entrepreneurship, and consumer relations. Knowledge in these areas is critical for anyone desiring to work in the hospitality industry or for a business that services the hospitality industry.
3) Supply-Chain Management Focus - Through experiential learning and collaboration with industry partners, students will gain hands-on experience tackling real-world challenges such as designing agile, sustainable, and costeffective supply chains. They will also focus on key areas such as logistics optimization, supplier relationship management,risk mitigation, and quality improvement. The curriculum integrates advanced technologies, including data analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence, ensuring graduates stay ahead of emerging trends and innovations. Students will prepare for leadership roles in global supply chain and operations management, implement innovative strategies, drive continuous improvement, and enhance organizational competitiveness in an evolving global economy.
4) General Management Focus - A multi-faceted program designed to prepare students to manage multiple business functions across a variety of organizational types. A particular emphasis is to help develop interpersonal and problemsolving skills so they are capable of resolving a broad spectrum of problems for large or small organizations, or with organizations about these issues. This focus area is designed to provide students with a large degree of flexibility when considering different career paths, because students will be prepared to systematically think through the processes that organizations use to create and maintain sustainable competitive advantage. General Management prepares students to work in for-profit businesses, non-profit organizations, entrepreneurial ventures, or in government organizations.
The Management major is available to students as an online degree completion program under the General Management focus area.
All management courses for the major require a minimum grade of C (not C-).