Major or minor. For students who want to run the organization, whatever the organization turns out to be. Choose one of four concentrations.
Business Programs
What business programs does Goshen College offer?
Goshen College offers eight undergraduate business programs. Four are available as a full major, and four more are minors you can add to any major on campus.
The Goshen College business department offers business as a major or a minor; accounting as a major; and marketing as a major or a minor. Four additional minors are open to students in any major: entrepreneurship, financial management, healthcare management and people and culture management. Every business major also completes at least three credits of experiential learning as a requirement of the degree, and qualifying students can begin coursework in Goshen’s MBA program while undergraduates.
Explore each program
Study business as your degree
Business
Accounting
Major. For students who want to build the numbers other people rely on, and the CPA license that certifies it.
Marketing
Major or minor. For students who want to work out how people decide, and set the strategy that reaches them.
Master of Business Administration
For students who have completed an undergraduate degree or undergraduate students who want to complete the MBA track.
Add business to your pre-existing major
Entrepreneurship
Minor, 18 credits. For students who want to build their own thing, in any field.
Financial Management
Minor, 18 credits. For students who want to read an organization’s numbers and decide what to do about them.
Healthcare Management
Minor, 21 credits. For students headed into health care who will end up running part of it.
People and Culture Management
Minor, 18 credits. For students who will lead teams, in any profession.
Why study business at Goshen College?
- Learn by doing, not just studying. You build skills in management, marketing, finance and accounting through projects and internships guided by faculty mentors, so you graduate with the judgment employers hire for rather than theory alone.
- Small classes with professors who know you. Classes stay small enough that faculty know your name and your goals, which means direct coaching and career guidance rather than waiting in a queue outside an office.
- A business you can actually run. Java Junction is a working coffee bar on campus, staffed by students and managed by business majors for academic credit. Few colleges hand undergraduates a real profit and loss statement like this.
- Ready for whatever comes next. Grounded in real experience and a strong ethical foundation, you leave prepared to launch your own venture or step into an established firm, with the footing to continue into graduate study if you choose.
Java Junction: A business, run by students
- A real business, not a case study: Java Junction is a student-run coffee bar on campus, operated by students and open to the whole community.
- Start behind the counter: as a student employee, you make drinks and keep the floor running, learning firsthand how a working business actually operates.
- Move into management, earn credit: junior and senior business majors can apply to the student management team through the official Java Junction class, running the shop’s operations, marketing, purchasing, and accounting for academic credit.
- Experience employers notice: you graduate with hands-on experience running a live business.
Graduate with experience, not just a degree
Every business major completes at least three credits of experiential learning before graduating. You choose how.
Some students take an internship; Some join the student management team that runs Java Junction; Some do job-connected applied learning inside a working organization; and some take on a business process innovation project. Different routes, same requirement, and all of them end with something you have actually run.
If you choose the internship route:
- Try on a career before you commit. An internship is a way to test a field firsthand and find out early whether it is the right fit, which is cheaper to learn now than three years into a job.
- Substantial by design. A fall or spring internship runs 120 hours and a summer placement runs 240. You take on real responsibility for an employer rather than shadowing someone for an afternoon.
- Start early, then go back for more. Students who complete two or three internships often move straight into full-time work after graduation, sometimes at the company where they interned.
The connections I’ve made with classmates, professors and peers have created a sense of belonging and encouraged me to step outside my comfort zone. The business department has provided me with valuable knowledge, hands-on learning opportunities, and mentorship that has strengthened my professional skills and confidence.
Arturo Hernandez Barrera '26
Genesis Products Intern
Common questions about business at Goshen
Start from the work rather than the title. If you want to run an organization, look at business. If you want to produce the numbers others depend on, accounting. If you want to understand how people decide and set strategy accordingly, marketing. And if business is a complement to something else you love, one of the four minors will get you there without changing your major.
Often yes, and many students do. Two combinations are not permitted, because the coursework overlaps too heavily: you cannot double major in Business and Accounting, or in business and marketing. There is also one thing to watch inside the Business major, where choosing the healthcare management or people and culture management concentration rules out the standalone minor of the same name. Your academic advisor can map any combination in a single conversation.
Three things:
- Every major requires at least three credits of experiential learning, so nobody graduates from this department without having done the work somewhere real.
- Every program is taught in classes small enough that faculty know your name.
- All of them treat ethics as part of the judgment the work requires rather than as a separate topic.
That is common and the department is built for it. Most of these programs share the same first courses, so a student who begins in one and moves to another rarely loses ground. The earlier you talk to an advisor, the less it costs you.
Yes. Once you have earned 60 undergraduate credit hours with a GPA of at least 2.50, you can begin taking courses in Goshen College’s MBA program while still an undergraduate. Ask your academic advisor how to plan for it, since starting early changes the shape of your remaining undergraduate schedule.
Scholarships make up a large portion of Goshen financial aid packages, which average almost $26,000 per student, not counting work-study or loans. Enrolled business students may also qualify for endowed awards including the Sauder Scholarship and the Gorsline Scholarship. Run the net price calculator to see your own number, then talk it through with a real person in the financial aid office.
Your future in business starts here.
One application opens the door to every business program at Goshen.
Michelle Horning
Professor of Accounting
Program Director
Department ChairAndrew Hartzler
Professor of Accounting
Alysha Liljeqvist
Associate Professor of Business
Jerrell Richer
Professor of Economics
Carl Kreider Chair and Co-Director of Global EngagementJorge Montenegro Martinez
Assistant Professor of Business
Jason Harrison
Assistant Professor of Business
Patrick Farran
Associate Professor of Business
Eyob Zeleke
Assistant Professor of Information Technology
Jewel Lehman
Professor of Kinesiology
Justin DeWeese
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology
