Business and economics Overview
The Department of Business and Economics offers four majors leading to Bachelor of Arts degrees — Accounting, Business, International Business and Management Information Systems.
Accounting
The Accounting major is designed to prepare students for careers in public and private accounting. For the CPA, students need an additional 22 credits.
Business
The Business major provides the opportunity to develop the foundation skills necessary to be competitive in many different management positions in both the private and public sectors. Students will learn to apply organizational and management theories, and quantitative techniques to
interpret and analyze business situations. Problem-solving skills will allow the student to take the initiative in identifying and pursuing organizational opportunities for growth and improvement.
Beyond theoretical and quantitative elements, practical leadership abilities for motivating, persuading, and enabling others to achieve individual, group, and institutional goals will be developed. The student will acquire the skills and tools necessary to manage in the 21st Century.
We require students to complete an internship in their area of interest. This provides the students with the opportunity to interact with professionals in the work environment. Many of our students have received offers for full-time employment in the firm in which they interned.
International Business
The International Business major is designed to
prepare the student for an entry-level position in a firm engaged in
international business. The students are required to intern in a domestic
business. An additional year of foreign language study is required. Students
must also participate in a Stritch approved semester
education abroad program.
Management Information Systems
The Business and Economics Department and the Mathematics and Computer Science Department created the combined Management Information Systems major to meet a need for students with a background in efficient and ethical use of management of technology and the information it generates in business environments. Students will learn the fundamentals of business and management as well as technological knowledge and skills.
A student in any of the departmental majors may NOT minor in one of the other three, nor may a student graduate with more than one of these majors. Only minors or second majors in departments other than business and economics will be accepted. Transfer students in all four majors must take at least 15 Stritch credits in the department including BU 401. MIS majors must take BU 404 and CS 404. Accounting transfer students must take at least three accounting courses at Stritch.