This scholarship is offered to an accounting or business administration major who has completed 32 or more credit hours of study and whose QPA is 3.2 or greater. This award is may be renewable for up to three years as long as the recipient continues to maintain a 3.2 or greater QPA. Financial need is not a factor.
All students take business foundation courses to learn the fundamentals of business practices in:
* Accounting
* Economics
* Finance
* Management
* Marketing
* Information Resources Management
* Business Law
* Business Ethics
* Quantitative Analysis
Beyond these fundamentals, students' required and elective upper-level business courses depend upon their concentration.
The Accounting Concentration prepares students to work in public accounting, managerial accounting (private business) and institutional (government and not-for-profit) accounting. Students in the Accounting Concentration may elect to take specified courses from the Criminal Justice program to earn a focus in Forensic Accounting. Forensic Accountants often work for law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and for public accounting firms.
The Comprehensive Business Administration Concentration is a highly flexible program, allowing students to tailor a course of study to prepare them for careers in any area of business including human resources, corporate finance, logistics, production, and international business; it also is the program for those who want to be entrepreneurs.
The Financial Services Concentration prepares students to work with individuals needing savings, investment, retirement and estate planning, and with organizations needing financial management and benefits program planning.
The Management Information Systems Concentration prepares students for positions in information management including computer system specialist, systems analyst, programmer analyst and data base analyst.
The Marketing Concentration prepares students for positions in consumer and business marketing including product/brand/market management, new product planning, integrated marketing communications, advertising, sales, retailing, wholesaling and international marketing.
Graduates also are prepared for graduate school in business administration, accounting, finance, marketing, international business, information technology, economics and law.
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