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Business Management: Degree Completion Program

The Goshen College business management degree completion program offers students who finished an associate’s degree or started a bachelor’s degree but never finished, a pathway to earn a bachelor’s degree. The program prepares students to purse career opportunities in a variety of business areas.

Courses in the business management program are online, providing students with the flexibility needed to earn a degree and manage their busy lives.

Admission to the Program

Students are eligible for admission to the program with a minimum of 12 transferable semester credits and a minimum GPA of 2.50. Students with an earned A.A. or A.S. degree may have their general education courses applied toward meeting the core requirements. Those with fewer than 60 credits or without an A.A. or A.S. degree must complete the following core requirements.

Core requirements (15 credit hours)

Major in Business Management (B.S. degree completion)

42 credit hours

Student Learning Outcomes

Graduates in Business Management will:

  1. Identify and articulate how personal values and ethical considerations inform and impact business decisions.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the roles, goals, key concepts, methods, and tools utilized in specific business functions as well as the relationships between the various functions in a business.
  3. Intentionally prepare for a business career.
  4. Acquire skills needed to influence, inspire, and motivate individuals and groups to achieve results.
  5. Identify opportunities, analyze information, and apply frameworks for effective problem-solving and decision-making.
  6. Demonstrate effective communication in a variety of business contexts.
  7. Demonstrate an ability to work productively with individuals in a diversity of roles and with varying interests in the outcome.

Academic Requirements

All business management majors must earn a grade of C- or higher in all courses required in the major. Failure to attain this level of achievement require the student to either repeat the course (for specific requirements), take an additional course (for elective courses in the major), or transfer an approved equivalent course from another accredited college or university.

Course descriptions

  • ACC 200 Principles of Accounting

    This course will introduce students to fundamental concepts of financial and managerial accounting. Emphasis is placed on learning and applying the basic accounting framework through the full accounting cycle with common business transactions, preparing financial statements, understanding fixed and variable...

  • BUS 220 Spreadsheet Skills

    This course provides students with the basic and intermediate spreadsheet skills expected by employers. Students will learn basic functions, chart creation, data analysis and visualization and tools commonly used by organizations.

  • BUS 244 Consumer Behavior Customer Journey

    This course explores consumer behavior, from determining consumer needs and wants, the process by which they are satisfied, and the environment in which the behavior occurs. Concepts and theories developed in psychology, economics, and sociology will be applied to the...

  • BUS 282 Business Analytics

    In this course students will develop the skills necessary to transform data into information that is effectively communicated and drives decision-making in organizations. This course will combine a student’s knowledge of business with data and statistics, learning to use a...

  • BUS 310 Business Law

    Survey of legal principles. Topics include liability, contracts, sales and negotiable instruments; also, secured transactions, agency, partnerships, corporations and antitrust.

  • BUS 315 People & Culture Management

    People and Culture Management is a central function of any organization. Managers and employees play an integral role in carrying out human resource policies and practices in their organization. In this course students will think systematically and strategically about aspects...

  • BUS 316 Marketing Management

    The nature of marketing in our society; how organizations develop marketing strategies that enable them to meet their objectives and the needs of their customers through adequate marketing mixes; the relationship of marketing to other management functions; marketing activities at...

  • BUS 317 Financial Management

    Introduces students to the primary elements of corporate finance such as time value of money, stock and bond valuation, financial analysis, working capital management, capital budgeting and dividend policy. Prerequisite: ACC 200 and BUS 220.

  • BUS 318 Operations Management

    Decision-making and analysis of production and service delivery challenges in areas of plant location, facilities design, process strategy, production planning and control, supply chain, inventory management, performance measurement, and quality control. Special attention is also given to the study of...

  • BUS 410 Strategic Management Capstone

    A study and evaluation of management strategies to achieve organizational goals and objectives and create value for all stakeholders. This course utilizes management principles, financial analysis and control, personnel decisions and marketing strategies with an emphasis on case studies and...

  • CORE 210 Professional Communication Skills

    A course for adult students that responds to the challenges of professional communication expectations. The focus is on critique and the development of individual written and oral communication skills for content, style and effectiveness. Access and management of information will...

  • CORE 309 Lead Serve in Multicultural World

    The modern workforce is rapidly becoming a mosaic of colors, languages, cultural traditions and values. This demographic reality poses an immense challenge for both workforce and leaders. The goal of this course is to better understand different cultural values and...

  • ECON 200 Principles of Economics

    This course will introduce students to the fundamental concepts of micro and macro economics, including economic relationships and processes, analysis of markets and price behavior, economic activities of governments, aggregate income determination, banking, and trade.

  • PJCS 210 Transforming Conflict and Violence

    Explores the potentially constructive nature of conflict, the destructive nature of violence and the relationship between the two. Examines various patterns of communication, conflict and violence and what is needed for transformation. Students will reflect on their own conflict styles,...

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