CWU Business offers a traditional business degree with specializations in Business Analytics, Finance, General Business, Human Resource Management, Leadership and Management, Marketing Management, Personal Financial Planning, and Supply Chain Management. This structure provides you with a broad understanding of all elements needed to make a business successful. After these introductory courses, you can choose your specialization. A specialization will help you set yourself apart from others in the industry.
Our program emphasizes the network you will build with your professors and peers. You will have the chance to work on projects in classes and gain important insight from industry professionals.
Our philosophy is embodied in our college mission: We create a positive, enduring impact on business and society by serving our diverse communities through collaborative education, contemporary research, and engaging partnerships.
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Data is critical in helping companies maintain a competitive advantage by producing data-driven insights for decision-makers. You will work with real-world business data and analyze it using descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive business analytics methods. Our program utilizes the latest business analytics software to manage data, develop visualization, and perform statistical and machine learning analyses.
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This program provides great preparation for business analytics, data science, and MBA graduate program. Some career paths for you upon completion are:
Finance builds on the business core and focuses on decision making in three interrelated areas:
With a specialization in Finance, you will learn about the acquisition and management of funds by businesses, governments, and individuals. Our finance curriculum provides the theoretical foundations and analytical skills to understand corporate financing and investing decisions, financial markets, security valuation, portfolio management, and financial planning.
Upon graduation, you will have the opportunity to explore various career paths such as:
Recent graduates have received jobs in large corporations such as Expedia, Microsoft, Boeing, Smartsheet, and Paccar.
Our General Business program provides flexibility for students who want a Business degree. A generalized degree in business gives you the chance to pursue your passion, whether it is professional sports, fashion, video games, cooking, or filmmaking.
Whatever the industry, there is a business side to the equation that keeps it running. Business is great if you want to:
In our Human Resource Management Specialization, you will learn fundamental organizational processes that are developed and managed for continuous improvement by HR specialists. You will be thoroughly trained to focus decision-making as it pertains to the acquisition, utilization, development, and retention of employees.
There are many careers to pursue with your human resources (HR) degree, including:
Our graduates have gone on to work at popular corporations such as Microsoft, Tesla, Amazon, Google, T-Mobile, and Facebook.
Our Leadership and Management program emphasizes building the skills, insights and knowledge that you will need to succeed in the world of business. During your time in this program, you will improve your management skills as well as influence others as they learn to identify valuable goals and work to reach them. Courses feature relevant concepts and theories, presenting you with opportunities to use this knowledge in practical situations.
With a specialization in Leadership and Management, you have many career options:
Our graduates have launched their careers at popular corporations such as Amazon, T-Mobile, Costco, Starbucks, and Nordstrom.
Marketing is a fast-paced field of study. It is the core of any organization that successfully interacts with their audience. Our Marketing Management Specialization provides you with the background for careers in:
Marketing topics include researching and analyzing consumers, market demand, pricing, product distribution and development, and communication in order to develop marketing strategies and policies.
Recent careers our graduates have are:
Our graduates are employed in large corporations such as T-Mobile, Seattle Mariners, North Coast Electric, Ferguson, and Windermere Real Estate
Personal Financial Planning (PFP) prepares you to become fee-for service professional planner. In this career you will work with families and individuals developing specific budget, asset management, and related planning processes. The program design and content also meets educational requirements to sit for the Certified Financial Planning Board of Standards, Inc. accreditation examination.
With the older generation transitioning into retirement and subsequent generations moving into new phases of life, this industry presents unique opportunities for newer professionals. Students receiving this degree have had careers as a:
Students receiving this degree typically start their careers in Wealth Management Firms, Banks, Wire Houses, Broker-Dealers, and Accounting Firms.
A supply chain is the series of organizations that help to deliver a product or service to consumers. Those involved in supply chain management play a critical role in understanding demand and delivering products and services.
Throughout this program, you will gain an understanding of the systematic, integrated nature of the creation and delivery of goods and services. You will be able to solve industry problems using concepts from other business administration courses and apply them to your specialized major.
There are many opportunities for you upon completion of a Supply Chain Management degree:
Our graduates are employed in large corporations such as Starbucks, Boeing, Paccar, Weyerhauser, and Microsoft.
To declare a major or minor program email cbadvising@cwu.edu with your student email for next steps.
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CWU’s College of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Only 5% of business schools globally earn the coveted designation.
For more information, reference our Accreditation information.