Business Programs at Bloomsburg
Business students have the opportunity to focus their studies in accounting, business education, computer information systems, finance, management or marketing. Strong academic and career advising is provided to assist in making career choices. A strong internship program allows students to experience the professional work environment before graduation. The placement rate for College of Business graduates for the past decade has averaged well over 90 per cent. The faculty has a long tradition of preparing successful business professionals.
Judy Steinhilper, a senior Anthropology major from Williamsport and graduate of Bishop Neumann High School, received invited status from the National Association of Student Anthropologists for a research poster on the "Phenomenon of Christian Rock" to be presented at the 106th American Anthropological Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C., in late November. The reseach was conducted in Dr. Faith Warner's ethnographic methods class. She also recently returned from a summer as excavation site supervisor at the 7,000-year-old Tel Mendes site in Egypt in conjunction with The Pennsylvania State University. Named as the top junior anthropology major in the United States, she chose BU because of its proximity to home and its academic reputation, and plans on graduate study in palethoethnobotany or middle eastern studies.
The College of Business is among the elite universities fully accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
All classrooms in the College of Business are equipped with the most up-to-date computer technology and projection systems. The electronic commerce classroom and microcomputer laboratories have an impressive array of hardware that is accessible to qualified students. A local area network interconnects faculty offices, classrooms, laboratories and other computer facilities on campus. Faculty and students have access to the Internet linking them to local, regional, national and international networks. The Andruss Library provides a large and ever expanding collection of texts, periodicals and databases to support classroom assignments.
Accounting - A major leading to a B.S.B.A. and a minor to prepare students for careers in all facets of accounting including fraud examination.
Business Education - A major leading to a B.S.Ed. and certification to teach business or computer and information technology at the K-12 levels. The department also offers a graduate program leading to an M.Ed. in business education with or without teaching certification.
Finance - A major leading to a B.S.B.A. in finance and careers in both domestic and international fields of banking and financial markets. Career concentration in international business is offered, as well as an interdisciplinary minor in legal studies.
Information and Technology Management - A major leading to a B.S.B.A. and a minor to prepare students for careers in organizations where information technology plays a major role in management, operations, and marketing.
Management - A major leading to a B.S.B.A. Also offered are a minor in management; Career Concentration in Human Resource Management, and Career Concentration in Supply Chain Management.
Management Information Systems - A major leading to a B.S.B.A. in a discipline that provides both a solid business core and contemporary information systems knowledge for supporting business needs.
Marketing - A major leading to a B.S.B.A. and a minor in marketing.
Many business majors are also interested in such minors as
- Economics
- Communications Studies
- Statistics