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Bachelor of Arts
Major | Minor
Every organization runs on the same question: what are we making, and who is it for? Business is how you learn to answer it, and lead the people who help you build it. You’ll study that inside a liberal arts college, which means you graduate able to think across fields, write clearly, and work with people who don’t see the world the way you do, and that combination is what makes your Goshen College business degree worth something. A business degree gets you the first interview. The rest, how you think, write, and work with people, is what makes you hard to replace on day one, harder to replace tomorrow, and the reason your career keeps building from there. It’s also a credential that travels: wherever you go next, an hour from campus or back across an ocean, the language of business is the same, and your Goshen College business degree comes with you.
Because you learn business in a place small enough that people know what you are good at, and broad enough that you learn to work with people unlike you.
In classes this size your professors know your name and your ideas in the first week, not the third year. They’re the ones who mentor you through the hard semesters, show up to cheer at your games, and tell you honestly when an idea won’t work, and when to run with it. That’s worth more over four years than a bigger building.
Goshen welcomes students of every background, religious or not. Whether your world is an hour from campus or an ocean away, you can belong here as fully yourself while you build something you can take anywhere.
19 credits
Business intelligence, systems analysis, IT project management. Five of the six courses are taken in the computer science department.
18 credits
Hospital administration, healthcare consulting, health insurance, public health organizations. Half the concentration is public health coursework.
18 credits
Supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, process improvement. Includes cost accounting, which operations employers ask about.
18 credits
Human resources, organizational development, talent management. This is the concentration that carries Goshen’s peace and conflict studies into a business credential.
The major is the full degree, a shared core plus a concentration you choose. The minor is the fundamentals, added to whatever else you are studying.
One planning note: you cannot double major in business and accounting, or in business and marketing.
The Business Major (49–50 credits, B.A.) is designed for students who want business to be their core degree and primary career path. It includes a 31-credit core, an 18–19 credit concentration, hands-on experience, career planning, and a senior strategy capstone. The Business Minor (20 credits) provides basic foundational knowledge (accounting, consumer behavior, information systems, economics) plus 9 elective upper-level credits to complement any other primary major.
All four concentrations sit on top of the same 31-credit core, so your first year looks the same regardless. Most students declare during the sophomore year, once they have taken accounting, economics, and information systems and have a better sense of which they want more of. Your advisor and the department chair work through the fit with you before you commit.
Graduates work as Business Analysts, Operation Managers, Financial Analysts, Human Resources, Supply Chain Analysts, Compliance Directors, Marketing Managers, Project Managers, Risk Management Analyst, Healthcare Administrators and more.
Yes. Once you have earned 60 undergraduate credit hours with a GPA of at least 3.00, 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 the timing affects 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 Gorseline Scholarship, listed with other scholarships. Run the net price calculator to see your own number, then talk it through with a real person in the financial aid office.
You’re paired with an advisor early, starting with a dedicated first-semester advisor who helps you get oriented, and then a business faculty advisor by the time you register for spring classes. It means the person guiding you knows your schedule, your goals, and what it’s like to build a class plan around the rest of your life, from family obligations to sports schedules, theater rehearsal to church volunteering. They’re the person who helps you figure out when to take the harder courses, how to stay on track for your concentration without falling behind on your degree, and what to do if a semester gets tighter than expected. If you’re the first in your family to navigate college, that matters even more: nobody expects you to already know how registration works, what a concentration is, or when to declare it. Your advisor’s job is to walk you through all of it, and to notice if something’s off before it becomes a problem, not after.
Goshen sits in Elkhart County, the RV Capital of the World. Around that industry sits everything it requires: suppliers, logistics firms, banks, health systems, and the operations teams that keep all of it running. Your internship does not always have to require relocating.
Every business major is also required to complete at least three credits of experiential learning. You choose how to meet it. Some students take an internship with a business or organization. Some manage Java Junction the student-run coffee bar on campus, and spend a semester responsible for its marketing, purchasing, staffing, and daily operations. Some do job-connected applied learning inside a working organization, and some take on a business process innovation project.
Whichever route you take, you finish the degree with something you have actually run, and experience to strengthen your resume.
Professor of Accounting
Program Director
Department Chair
Associate Professor of Business
Assistant Professor of Business
Professor of Accounting
Associate Professor of Business
Assistant Professor of Business
Assistant Professor of Information Technology
Professor of Economics
Carl Kreider Chair and Co-Director of Global Engagement
