Business

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.