Earn Your Degree in Business for a Wide Array of Career Choices
If you’re a strong communicator who enjoys teamwork and solving challenging problems, you’re a leader, an organizer, and have great computer skills a business degree might just be right for you.
Class requirements:
You will be taking a wide variety of science, math, and arts courses during your freshman and sophomore years of college including writing workshops, written and oral communication, psychology/sociology, economics, computers, calculus, accounting, and statistics.
You’ll focus on your professional business core classes as a junior and senior, studying marketing, management and organizational behavior, and finance. In addition to these, you will take courses specific to your business major, electives, and a class in business policy, which allows you to apply the subjects you’ve studied to solve real business problems.
Career Choices:
If you choose to earn your business degree, you’ll have the opportunity to work in a wide variety of settings – business, non-profit, and government are all options. A degree in business qualifies you to work in jobs such as:
- Market researcher
- Systems Analyst
- Financial Analyst
- Human Resources Specialist
- Entry-level Manager
- Assistant Product Manager
- Security Salesman
When you consider your career choices, think about your interests, skills, and preferences to determine your major. To figure out what industries and work settings you enjoy most, look for volunteer positions, part-time jobs, or internships that can help you decide.
High Schoolers:
If you are still in high school and would like to pursue a career in business, you might consider the recommended courses to boost your chances of getting into a good business college.
It’s best to have: four years of English, two years of algebra, one year of geometry, one year of trigonometry, two years of lab science, two years of social studies, and two years of a foreign language.
Wed, Mar 3, 2010
Degrees, Higher Education