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Bachelors of Arts
Business
Major | Minor
What Is Business Study?
Business is the study of how organizations create something people want, pay for the work of making it, and lead the people who do it.
At Goshen College, business isn’t taught in a vacuum. We weave ethical leadership directly into every course from accounting to strategy. Here, you learn to measure success not just by financial bottom lines, but by human impact, environmental sustainability, and social responsibility.
Backed by a strong liberal arts foundation, our curriculum sharpens your critical thinking, communication, and cross-cultural perspective. You’ll master core business operations while developing the agility to adapt, lead with integrity, and solve complex problems across corporate, non-profit, and entrepreneurial settings.
What sets this program apart
- A concentration, not a general degree. Everyone leaves with a specialization on the transcript, in an area employers hire for by name.
- Ethics in the core. Required of every major, and treated as part of the judgment the work needs rather than a compliance topic.
- Genuinely international, in the room. Students come from across the U.S. and around the world, and the admissions office walks international applicants through the I-20 and visa process. You will spend four years learning to work across difference, which is the actual condition of every workplace you will enter.
- A faster route to the MBA. Once you have 60 undergraduate credit hours and a 2.50 GPA, you can begin taking Goshen MBA coursework while still an undergraduate.
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.
Choose your Concentration
Data and Systems Management
Healthcare Management
For careers in hospital administration, healthcare consulting, public health organizations, or health insurance, where business meets healthcare delivery.
Operations Management
For careers in supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, process improvement, or sustainability-focused operations across industries.
People & Culture Management
For human resources, organizational development, talent management, and leadership focused on workplace culture and employee engagement.
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 have strengthened my professional skills and confidence.
Arturo Hernandez-Barrera 26'
Genesis Products Intern
Where You’ll Put It to Work
Every business major completes at least three credits of experiential learning. It is a requirement of the degree, not an opportunity you have to go find. 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 a story you can tell in an interview that is not about a class.
Common Questions About the Business Major & Minor
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, a 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.
No. Healthcare Management and People and Culture Management exist both as concentrations inside this major and as standalone minors for students in other majors. If you take one as a concentration, you cannot also earn it as a minor, because the coursework overlaps. Choose the route that fits your plan.
No. Those pairs share too many required courses for the college to count them separately. Most students in that position add a complementary minor instead, chosen around where they want to specialize.
Graduates work in marketing, human resources, management, finance, and operations, across business, banking, overseas development, nonprofits, and consulting. A good number start their own businesses. The concentration you choose shapes the first job more than the fifth.
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 the timing affects your remaining undergraduate schedule.
Yes. Many students pair a business minor with primary majors like nursing, computer science, environmental science, or the arts to gain practical management, budgeting, and leadership skills for their specific industry. If you want to double major, you can also combine the business major with a completely separate field (such as education for teaching certification, or a language major). Speak with your academic advisor early to map out a clear degree plan that fits both programs.
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, 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.
Ready When You Are.
Take the next step toward a business degree, or a minor, that works during college and pays off long after
Roy Jackson
Associate Professor of Education
Brooke Lemmon
Professor of Education
Director of Special EducationRobina Sommers
Associate Professor of Education
Steven Thalheimer
Associate Professor of Education
Department ChairDanae Wirth
Assistant Professor of Education
About the Goshen College Business Major & Minor
Goshen College is a Mennonite-affiliated liberal arts college in Goshen, Indiana, founded in 1894. The Business major is a 49 to 50 credit Bachelor of Arts: a 31-credit core of accounting, marketing, analytics, ethics, information systems, economics, and strategy, plus one of four concentrations, Data and Systems Management (19 credits), Healthcare Management (18), Operations Management (18), and People and Culture Management (18). A 20-credit Business minor is open to students in any major. Every business major completes at least three credits of experiential learning, and students who reach 60 undergraduate credit hours with a 2.50 GPA can begin Goshen MBA coursework. Financial aid packages average almost $26,000 per student.
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