Business Administration Management Major
Today’s managers must go beyond simply commanding and controlling people, enforcing rules, or maintaining organizational stability and efficiency. Modern leaders are expected to master a full range of management skills and strategic thinking, grounded in an understanding of what business administration management is in today’s evolving landscape. The Citadel’s BS in Business Management, part of its comprehensive business administration program, equips students with the knowledge and practical experience needed to lead ethically, grow successful organizations, or launch their own ventures. Through engaging business administration courses and hands-on training, students build a strong foundation in leadership, decision-making, and innovation, earning a degree in business management and administration that prepares them to excel in any professional setting.
Business Management Training
The goal of managing is to help individuals develop the skills to find innovative solutions to the problems confronting today’s organizations. It involves recognizing opportunities and acting on them—an approach central to our business administration program. Entrepreneurs are agents of change, and being entrepreneurial requires the ability to think creatively, innovate, and lead ideas from development to implementation.
At The Citadel Baker School of Business, we don’t teach students to “think outside the box,” we teach them how to obliterate the box altogether. Through a dynamic business administration course experience, a degree in business management and administration provides students with opportunities to solve complex problems using both traditional and non-traditional methods.
Within the Baker School of Business is our Innovation Lab—a small operation with a large undertaking, serving as an idea hub for entrepreneurially minded students across campus. Our mission is to create principled change agents of innovation who solve complex problems, supported by hands-on business administration training that encourages creative thinking across challenges of all sizes.
Intended Outcomes
As a Principled Manager and Entrepreneur, our business administration courses develop the knowledge and skills to build trust, inspire commitment, lead change, and harness people’s creativity and enthusiasm. Students learn to find shared vision and values while sharing authority and responsibility, all within a comprehensive business administration program. Our degree offering also provides guidance on assessing the moral and ethical dimensions of business decisions in a principled manner.
Going beyond rote memorization of the components of management (planning, organizing, leading, and controlling organizational resources), students in the BS in Business Management engage deeply in their discipline. They gain greater choice in career preparation, academic specialization, tailored faculty advising, and specialized guidance from industry professionals through the Coaching Program, along with hands-on experience through internships and professional development.
Management majors are strongly encouraged to complete an industry internship—supervised work experience aligned with their career goals and an essential part of their business administration training.
Coursework
The management major consists of 24 credit hours (eight courses) from the Management & Entrepreneurship Department and other courses from the Baker School of Business that contribute to a robust understanding of management and entrepreneurship. Twelve hours are required courses; and, the remaining twelve hours are four elective courses that may be courses from other business discipline-specific classes found in the college catalog or other general college classes that are selected in consultation with the student’s business academic advisor. Courses will build upon and contribute to a logical career path (e.g., taking a psychology course in human behavior because the future career path is in the residential real estate industry).
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| ENTR 301 | Principled Entrepreneurship and the Free Enterprise System |
| MGMT 301 | Principles of Management |
| MGMT 311 | Human Resource Management |
| MGMT 411 | Business Ethics |
| ENTR 401 | Small Business Management/Entrepreneurship |
Elective Courses
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| ACCT 403 | Federal Taxation |
| BLAW 303 | Commercial Law |
| BLAW 311 | Principles of Real Estate |
| ENTR 411 | Technology & Entrepreneurship |
| FINC 303 | Financial Modeling |
| MGMT 307 | Leading Inclusion & Diversity |
| MGMT 313 | Leading Teams |
| MGMT 421 | Management Information Systems |
| MGMT 460 | Business Internship |
| MGMT 470 | Special Topics in Management |
| MGMT 480 | Undergraduate Research in Management |
| MGMT 490 | Independent Study in Management |
| MKTG 303 | Business Development 1 |
In consultation with your faculty advisor, other courses may be selected from any discipline that will strengthen your skillset for this major. View the Academic Map for your academic year for more information.
Advisement
Students in the Management & Entrepreneurship Department are assigned an advisor from faculty in the discipline. Students are matched with academic advisors and career professionals for academic and practical matters relative to pursuing their desired career path.
Extra-Curricular Components
The Management major also includes a number of extra-curricular components:
- Coaches – Coaches from the Coaches Program with experience in the field the student wishes to pursue are assigned.
- On-campus clubs and activities – Students have access to and are encouraged to participate in free enterprise-related clubs, organizations, and events, including the Bulldog Business Bowl student business plan competition, an evening bi-weekly reading group that meets to discuss books and articles provided for students and a lecture series in entrepreneurship and free enterprise.
- Internship & independent study opportunities – Students are encouraged to do internships, which provide exposure to and experience in their desired career fields, or an independent study with a faculty member on a formal research project.
For more information about this program, please contact Dr. Benjamin Dean, Department Chair.