Business Administration
Welcome to the Business Program
Goals
Our goal is to provide the highest quality educational experience consisting of classroom, research, internship and practical experiences. As such, the division offers distinctive experiences such as:
- A strong faculty-student relationship.
- A supportive and adaptable learning atmosphere.
- Personal involvement with business leaders.
- The utilization of technology in the business environment.
- Provide students with competitive advantage.
The Business Administration Program will provide students with the opportunity to achieve the knowledge, skills, and experiences to excel in the business workplace, whether directly or as preparation for advanced degrees.
Focus
The Program’s focus is to prepare students to participate in, and lead, innovative organizations by developing the following skills needed to compete in this new global business environment.
- Apply ethical understanding and perspective to all business situations.
- Cultivate and maintain effective individual and group interpersonal relationships.
- Possess and demonstrate one-on-one and group communication skills.
- Conceive and develop concepts to create new ideas and innovative thinking.
- Use logic and reasoning to identify alternative solutions for problem solving.
- Demonstrate proper business acumen and decorum in professional interactions.
- Understand and utilize the fundamental business principles.
- Build on broad-based foundations of knowledge in liberal arts for lifelong learning.
The Business Administration program of study prepares students to become responsible, productive business leaders. The program provides core and elective courses which provide students the ability to acquire knowledge and skills to compete in today’s global business environment. Business Administration prepares students to meet the strategic and competitive challenges required in this new, fast-changing business environment by offering a diversified, adaptable program of instruction structured to keep pace in an innovative world.
Future
Whether you want to work for a large company or start your own business, you need a strong foundation in the principles of business. A degree in Business Administration provides the opportunity to develop a broad perspective on business operations in a global or local marketplace.
Lees-McRae College’s Business Administration majors are prepared for future careers in finance, accounting, international business, general and operations management, advertising, marketing, sales, public relations, administrative services, industrial and production management, purchasing, transportation, not-for-profit management, and government service. In addition, the program helps each student develop the skills necessary to succeed in the increasingly global and complex information-oriented world of the twenty-first century. More importantly, the Business Administration program at Lees-McRae College helps students to develop their own “moral compasses” to prepare them for the ethical issues that they will face as managers. This grounding can be applied throughout life to a multitude of different occupations. Careers in business and technology continue to accelerate at a rapid pace. The Business Administration Program is committed to meet the needs of students desiring a degree in Business Administration. In addition to providing a strong core business curriculum, students are also offered the opportunity to obtain concentrations in: