The Albers School of Business and Economics offers a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration degree with a major in Management to provide you with the skills that companies in our growing economy look for in their managers. Companies and organizations focus on differentiating themselves in today’s competitive environments, just as employees constantly strive to demonstrate their own value. Management skills are at the center of integrating the needs of companies and the individual.
The Management major will help you gain a strategic management perspective and the knowledge to structure organizations to meet profit and social responsibility goals. At the same time, you will become qualified in important communication and management skills to recruit, retain, and guide individuals and teams to support successful companies and organizations. In addition to required courses in leadership and human resource management, customize the major to suit your personal interests with electives in:
Our department grounds you in both soft and hard skills so you have the emotional and technical knowledge you need to navigate a variety of complex workplaces. A holistic program, our Management major helps you build the insight to serve the needs of the individual and the understanding to manage a successful department.
Organizational Behavior
Managing Work Teams
Adventure Based Leadership
Managing Diversity
Entrepreneurship Essentials
Human Resource Management
Business Plan Development
Project/Process Management
Management majors have a wide variety of career paths available to them. Every business large and small needs managers to ensure the company is running smoothly and efficiently.
Management majors from Albers School of Business and Economics have obtained jobs in a variety of organizations including:
There are two popular career paths for management majors: Business Consulting and Human Resource Management. But job titles vary, reflecting the range of skills and experience our alumni obtained through their degree program. You’ll find many of our alumni with the titles of:
The undergraduate Management program at Albers School of Business and Economics offers you seventy years of academic excellence. As an undergraduate student, you will benefit from small class sizes where you will connect with faculty who are highly qualified and committed to teaching the skills and concepts needed for you to succeed in the world of business and beyond.
I envision our graduates as key players in any organization to which they belong: they are the individuals asking thought-provoking questions and deploying their strategic and analytical skills to spark change, drive innovative practices, and contribute to social movements with passion.
Thanks to Albers and the Management Department, I not only learned key skills that progressed my career, but I was also better able to understand the social and moral impacts of decisions that effect the world. Now, as a graduate, I feel empowered to showcase that knowledge as a leader for change both as a business professional and a person.
Pursuing a Business Management and Humanities double-degree has been a one of a kind experience that I am beyond grateful for. Combining the insightful professors with the endless resources that Seattle University has to offer, the management undergraduate program has exposed me to elements of the major that is both universal and necessary for a well-rounded individual entering the business world.
My experience at Albers has allowed me to utilize my resources in growing and learning because no one person can do it all by themselves. The support and education that I have received has really allowed me to be an agile and flexible leader in any environment that I step into and I encourage anyone to not be afraid to step out of their comfort zone because your next big thing can be in one move or encounter.