The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business will offer four new majors starting this fall - finance, marketing, management and entrepreneurship - as well as a new degree and two new minors. The new degree is a bachelor of science in business administration.
The school also plans to add an international business program in the upcoming academic year.
Currently, the Love School of Business offers a bachelor of science degree with a major in business administration. Students complete a concentration in management, marketing, entrepreneurship, international business or finance. Current students have the choice of continuing with this program or selecting the new degree and one of the new majors.
The new degree and majors were put in place to provide students with greater depth and breadth in their areas of interest. Students in the B.S.B.A. program complete a series of core courses along with their major requirements. The core courses emphasize important business issues such as ethics, sustainability, and the global economy, and develop business communication skills.
Students also develop critical thinking, decision making, and reasoning skills while studying the functional areas of business such as accounting and finance. The combination of a strong core business curriculum, the new majors, a required internship, and the strong liberal arts and sciences general studies requirements prepare Elon business students well for their first professional positions and lay a strong foundation for future leadership roles.
The two new minors are in professional sales and entrepreneurship. Minors are open to students from any undergraduate degree program. The minor in professional sales prepares students to leverage the content and skills acquired in a major with the sales knowledge and skills taught in the minor to pursue a successful career in areas such as medical equipment sales and financial services.
The minor in entrepreneurship focuses on teaching entrepreneurship as a way of thinking that adds value in any type of organizational setting.
“The new B.S.B.A. degree and the new majors and minors help position the Love School of Business with the top undergraduate business programs in the country,” said Mary Gowan, dean of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business.” We spent a lot of time benchmarking best programs, talking with our Board of Advisors, and talking with employers before putting the new programs in place. We are excited about the doors the new majors and minors will open for our students.”
The Love School of Business continues to offer a bachelor of science degree with a major in accounting and a bachelor of arts degree with a major in economics.