Business Degree | Bachelors Degrees in Business, Accountancy, and Finance

At C-SC, students who major in business get a solid foundation in business principles, financial and legal issues, and business strategies before pursuing one of our 12-credit-hour specializations.

For details about the business major or business minor, see the C-SC Academic Catalog.

> Accountancy and Finance

Select 12 hours from cost management, risk management, real estate, investments, international corporate finance, or financial institutions and monetary policy.

> Corporate Leadership

Select 12 hours from legal issues, ethical decision making, fraud prevention, cost management, investments, organizational communication or other special topics.

> Marketing

Delve into consumer behavior, business innovation, advertising, sports marketing, graphic design, public relations, or multimedia uses in business.

> Management Information Systems

Learn about business programming, web programming, web development, intelligent systems, operations management or systems and networks.

> Organizational Management

Cap off your business courses by focusing deeper on legal issues, risk management, real estate, monetary policy, industrial psychology, operations management, advertising, management techniques or current economic trends.

> Individualized

Work with your advisor to tailor your specialization to achieve your unique career goals.

Students often combine a minor or a second major with business, such as psychology, sports management, criminal justice or math.

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The average post-commencement job placement rate for C-SC graduates was a business degree is 96 percent. Careers pursued by recent graduates include:

Relationship manager, U.S. Bank
Assistant manager, Wells Fargo
Human resource specialist, Correctional Medical Services
Event planner, Chicago Mayor’s Office
Market planning specialist, Roquette America

In addition to job shadowing and internships, students also learn through:

Traveling to conferences around the United States
Participating in the student chapter of Students in Free Enterprise/Phi Beta Lambda
Building a network of business professionals, especially C-SC alumni
Interacting with CEOs and other business leaders through C-SC Business Leadership Exchange
Making real investments of a portion of C-SC’s endowment through an investment group
Learning about today’s corporations through the Corporate Experience Travel Program, including annual trips to Chicago and Kansas City
Obtaining global knowledge through travel abroad, such as the 2008 trip to China

C-SC accountancy majors have been successful both as undergraduates and as career professionals. For example:

Members of the C-SC Students in Free Enterprise chapter participated in the Walgreen’s Wrangle 2007 Entrepreneurship Competition.
Members of the C-SC SIFE chapter participated in the SIFE Financial Case Study Competition.
In 2006, SIFE team won its third overall regional championship and captured four other awards during the Students in Free Enterprise regional competition.
C-SC business graduates have founded their own companies, including Advance Physical Therapy; Heatron, Inc.; and Charles Industries Ltd.
C-SC graduates have held senior management positions with such companies as PepsiCo, Shell Oil, State Farm Insurance, First Bankers Trust, and Express Scripts.

Division of Business

Business