Business Management B.S.
“What Can I Do with a Major in Business Management?”
As companies strive to compete in a global market, they look for employees who are knowledgeable in current business practices and who can effectively evaluate the current competitive environment and meet customer needs. Businesses want employees with strong communication skills who are good at analyzing and solving problems and thinking critically.
A Business Management degree can provide those skills, and earning this degree can increase your job opportunities and salary potential. The study of business management provides a broad education in business management practices and can be pursued on its own or combined with a more specialized area of study such as Finance, Entrepreneurship or Supply Chain Management.
About the Program
The purpose of the Business Management program is to provide students with the knowledge, training, and skills development they will need to pursue a successful career in business management. As a Business Management major, you choose the area of specialization that you would like to pursue. The areas of concentration are: Finance, General Management, Entrepreneurship and Supply Chain Management. When you complete the course of study, you will receive a Bachelor of Science in Business Management.
If your goal is to become a professional manager who is not only a trained decision-maker, but also understands the complex relationships that exist between the manager, the organization, and society at large, then please contact the department for more information.
Are you interested in ...
- Effectively and efficiently managing people, methods, materials, equipment, and money to meet customer needs
- Individual and organizational success
- Leadership
- Effective communication
- Critical thinking and analyzing and solving problems
- Team work
Choose Business Management at ESU
- Small class size
- Modern teaching classrooms
- Qualified, experienced faculty
- Personal advising by faculty
- Four concentrations: Management, Finance, Supply Chain Management and Entrepreneurship
Is Business Management a career path for me?
Career Potential
- Financial and Investment Manager
- Operations and Manufacturing Manager
- Small Business Manager, Entrepreneur
- General or human resource manager
Program Features
45 credits
Required courses:
| MGT 200 | Principles of Management | 3 credits |
| MGT 204 | Principles of Marketing | 3 credits |
| MGT 211 | Financial Accounting Fundamentals | 3 credits |
| MGT 212 | Managerial and Cost Accounting Fundamentals | 3 credits |
| MGT 225 | Business Law I | 3 credits |
| MGT 250 | Quantitative Business Analysis | 3 credits |
| MGT 301 | Financial Management I | 3 credits |
| MGT 352 | Human Resource Management | 3 credits |
| MGT 355 | Business Ethics | 3 credits |
| MGT 452 | Organizational Strategy | 3 credits |
Concentration courses:
Fifteen credits from one of the following areas:
Management:
Select any five of the following:
| MGT 333 | Intermediate Managerial & Cost Accounting | 3 credits |
| MGT 351 | Operations Management | 3 credits |
| MGT 353 | Small Business Management | 3 credits |
| MGT 354 | Retail Management | 3 credits |
| MGT 359 | Labor History & Industrial Relations | 3 credits |
| MGT 362 | Globalization & International Management | 3 credits |
| MGT 453 | Organizational Leadership | 3 credits |
| MGT 454 | Organizational Behavior | 3 credits |
| ECON 332 | Forecasting Methods | 3 credits |
Finance:
Select any five of the following:
Entrepreneurship:
All of the following are required:
| MGT 353 | Small Business Management | 3 credits |
| MGT 363 | Entrepreneurship & New Venture Creation | 3 credits |
| MGT 370 | Consumer Behavior | 3 credits |
| MGT 375 | Innovation & New Product Development | 3 credits |
| MGT 453 | Organizational Leadership | 3 credits |
Supply Chain Management:
| MGT 323 | Organizational Theory | 3 credits |
| MGT 350 | Quantitative Business Analysis II | 3 credits |
| MGT 351 | Operations Management | 3 credits |
| MGT 423 | Total Quality Management | 3 credits |
| MGT 455 | Supply Chain Management | 3 credits |
Co-requisite courses:
| ECON 111 | GN: Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 credits |
| ECON 112 | GN: Principles of Microeconomics | 3 credits |
| MATH 110 | GN: General Statistics | 3 credits |
| MATH 130 | GN: Applied Algebraic Methods | 3 credits |
| ENGL 205 | Workplace Writing | 3 credits |
| CMST 111 | GN: Introduction to Communication | 3 credits |
| CPSC 100 | GN: Personal Computers and Their Uses | 3 credits |
| PSY 100 | GN: General Psychology | 3 credits |
Additional requirements:
- Majors must complete a minimum of five management (MGT) courses at East Stroudsburg University.
- Majors must attain a major GPA of 2.5 or higher in all management (MGT) courses taken at East Stroudsburg University.
- Incoming students are admitted as Pre-Business Management majors. In order to be admitted to the Business Management degree program and be permitted to take upper level (300/400) management courses, pre-business management students must satisfy the following entrance-to-major requirements:
- Complete all eight required co-requisite courses
- Complete the following entrance-to-major lower-level business courses: MGT 211, 212, 225, 250
- Complete a minimum of 45 total semester hours with a cumulative GPA of 2.25.
- Transfer students (both from other colleges and other majors) must meet the above requirements. If they do not, they are admitted into the pre-business management program.
- Please see the University requirements in the Undergraduate Catalog.
4 Year Curriculum Program Plan for Business Management
Subject to change by the University without notice.
Freshman Year
Fall
| ECON 111 | GN: Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 credits |
| CMST 111 | GN: Introduction to Communication | 3 credits |
| FYE 100 | University Studies | 3 credits |
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| MATH 110 | GN: General Statistics | 3 credits |
| OR | | |
| MATH 130 | GN: Applied Algebraic Methods | 3 credits |
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| CPSC 100 | GN: Personal Computers and Their Uses | 3 credits |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Spring
| ENGL 090 | Composition Skills | 3 credits |
| OR | | |
| ENGL 103 | English Composition | 3 credits |
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| ECON 112 | GN: Principles of Microeconomics | 3 credits |
| PSY 100 | GN: General Psychology | 3 credits |
| HPLW 105 | Health Promotion and Lifetime Wellness | 3 credits |
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| MATH 110 | GN: General Statistics | 3 credits |
| OR | | |
| MATH 130 | GN: Applied Algebraic Methods | 3 credits |
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| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Sophomore Year
Fall
| MGT 211 | Financial Accounting Fundamentals | 3 credits |
| MGT 225 | Business Law I | 3 credits |
| PSY 100 | GN: General Psychology | 3 credits |
| XXXX ____ | Arts/Letters General Education course | 3 credits |
| XXXX ____ | Social Science General Education course | 3 credits |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Spring
| MGT 212 | Managerial and Cost Accounting Fundamentals | 3 credits |
| MGT 250 | Quantitative Business Analysis | 3 credits |
| ENGL 205 | Workplace Writing | 3 credits |
| XXXX ____ | Arts/Letters General Education course | 3 credits |
| XXXX ____ | Social Science General Education course | 3 credits |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Junior Year
Fall
| MGT 200 | Principles of Management | 3 credits |
| MGT 204 | Principles of Marketing | 3 credits |
| MGT 301 | Financial Management I | 3 credits |
| XXXX ____ | Arts/Letters General Education course | 3 credits |
| XXXX ____ | Social Science General Education course | 3 credits |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Spring
| MGT 301 | Financial Management I | 3 credits |
| MGT 352 | Human Resource Management | 3 credits |
| MGT 355 | Business Ethics | 3 credits |
| MGT ____ | Concentration Course 1 | 3 credits |
| MGT ____ | 300-400 Level elective | 3 credits |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Senior Year
Fall
| MGT ____ | Concentration Course 2 | 3 credits |
| MGT ____ | Concentration Course 3 | 3 credits |
| MGT ____ | 300-400 Level elective | 3 credits |
| MGT ____ | 300-400 Level elective | 3 credits |
| XXXX ___ | Elective | 3 credits |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Spring
Total Credit Hours: 120
For more information, contact the department by calling 570-422-3251 or visit www.esu.edu/cbm.
For assistance or special accommodations, call 570-422-3954.