Majors and Certificates
Business Majors
The Hankamer School of Business offers 13 unique majors and various tracks within those majors that will equip you to take the lead in today's competitive marketplace. Each major will expose you to learning environments that will develop core business knowledge and skills while also instilling a strong, ethical mindset.
Accounting |
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Degrees offered: BBA Major description: Accountants develop and communicate financial and other economic information for the purpose of making business decisions. Accounting is an international subject that involves critical thinking and working with people. An accounting major provides broad career opportunities in public accounting (CPA), industry (CMA), and government. Accountants have expertise in accounting, auditing, budgeting, computer systems, financial management, and taxation. Technology Note: Due to the extensive use of data analytics software only available on a PC, Accounting majors should plan to have a PC rather than a Mac. Students can utilize the computer lab, but this will limit the flexibility of completing assignments. The department’s intent is to prepare students for the profession, and all corporate partners that hire accounting graduates are PC based. |
Baylor Business Fellows |
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Degrees offered: BBA Major description: The Baylor Business Fellows major is based on the assumption that students of proven academic excellence may pursue a bachelor of business administration degree with few restrictions on their selection of courses and the methods used to accomplish their work. This major offers the widest latitude in meeting the BBA requirements, allowing the student to specialize in one or more areas in the Business School and/or one or more areas outside the School. Students will prepare for graduate school and analytical careers. Admission is competitive and separate from admission to the University or the School of Business. |
Economics |
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Degrees offered: BA, BBA, BS Major description: Economics provides a theoretical and empirical framework for business. The economics major, combined with the professional business core, is excellent preparation for a business career or graduate study in economics, business or law. Career opportunities include positions in consulting, financial analysis, commercial banking, economic development, and government agencies. |
Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation |
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Degrees offered: BBA Major description: The entrepreneurship major offers a unique learning experience to students who aspire to start or secure employment in a business having high growth potential. The major helps students to identify viable career options in entrepreneurship, expand their conceptual knowledge of the entrepreneurship process, and develop a repertoire of venture management skills and techniques. Course work culminates in the development of an actual business plan designed to launch the student’s entrepreneurial career. |
Finance |
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Degrees offered: BBA Major description: Finance is the study and practice of decision-making to acquire and manage real and financial assets for the purpose of creating and maintaining economic (market) value. The finance curriculum consists of two main areas of study - corporate finance and investments - with electives in commercial banking, entrepreneurial finance, futures and options, international finance, risk management, and short-term financial management. Students with a major in finance may pursue career opportunities in corporate finance, credit management, financial consulting, investments/investment banking, and commercial banking. |
Human Resource Management |
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Degrees offered: BBA Major description: The major in human resource management prepares students for business careers that are centered on people. Course work is designed to develop the many skills required of a human resource specialist and focuses on areas such as employee recruitment, placement, performance evaluation, compensation/benefit programs, labor relations, team development, discipline, training/development programs, and career planning. Career opportunities are found in almost all business fields in firms that are large enough to warrant human resource specialists. |
International Business |
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Degrees offered: BBA Major description: Successful business professionals must embrace the opportunities and challenges of the new world economy. International business majors choose from specialized courses in accounting, economics, marketing, finance, management, and modern foreign language. International business opportunities are available in almost every sector, including the energy, telecommunications and information technology industries and in banking financial services, multinational corporations, international organizations and government agencies. The International Business major is always part of a double major, requiring the student to choose a primary major from one of the functional areas of business (Accounting, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Management, Marketing, etc.) or Baylor Business Fellows. |
Management |
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Degrees offered: BBA Major description: This major prepares students for managerial positions that are a key to the success of any business organization. Course work focuses on the development of skills necessary for the effective and efficient management of organizational resources, and it includes instruction in such areas as leadership development, project management, negotiating and conflict resolution, organizational design, productivity enhancement, employee motivation, and managerial values. Graduates are prepared for leadership positions in a variety of industries including manufacturing, retail, and services. |
Management Information Systems |
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Degrees offered: BBA Major description: As the demand for information technology intensifies, majors in Management Information Systems (MIS) are highly marketable. The MIS track prepares students to become information systems professionals who focus on integrating information technology solutions and business processes to meet the information needs of businesses and other enterprises, enabling them to meet their objectives in an effective, efficient way. |
Marketing |
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Degrees offered: BBA Major description: Marketing is the organization’s way of interfacing with customers. It involves many activities, all focused on building long term relationships with customers. The curriculum strengthens conceptual and analytical skills and improves verbal and written communication abilities. Choosing from an array of marketing courses, students can prepare for careers in marketing management, advertising, marketing research, retail management, financial services, and marketing for nonprofit organizations. Some students cap their programs with a marketing internship that enables them to explore a specific career opportunity prior to graduation. |
Professional Selling |
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Degrees offered: BBA Major description: The professional selling major prepares students for success in careers that span the spectrum from account representative to vice president of sales and marketing. The sales curriculum cultivates the core skill competencies needed in a competitive, complex and ever changing marketplace. Students are involved in basic selling, managing and growing long-term customer relationships, sales force management and leadership, negotiating, and strategic decision-making. |
Risk Management and Insurance |
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Degrees offered: BBA Major description: The risk management and insurance curriculum focuses on the financial and economic characteristics of potential exposures to loss faced by firms and individuals, and the techniques available to minimize the costs associated with such exposures. Employment opportunities may be found in corporate risk management and brokerage consulting, treasury risk management, insurance home office operations, and insurance agency operations. |
Supply Chain Management |
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Degrees offered: BBA Major description: The supply chain management curriculum prepares the students to manage the many activities involved in the creation of goods and services. Students develop the ability to apply problem-solving tools related to productivity improvement, quality control, production scheduling, and materials management, and to present an integrated top-management view of the entire operations function. Entry-level positions in supervision, production planning and control, inventory management, quality assurance, project management, and technical sales provide a wide choice of career options. |
Certificate Programs
Certificate programs offer a variety of learning opportunities tailored to meet specific career goals. A student will major in one of the Business School undergraduate majors, then take predetermined courses to meet the additional certificate requirements.
Business Analytics |
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Certificate description: The goal of the Certificate Program in Business Analytics is to provide Hankamer School of Business students exposure to concepts and techniques critical to success in the area of business analytics. The purpose of the Certificate in Business Analytics will be to make students in all business majors more attractive in the marketplace by providing the skills necessary to understand and interpret big data and business analytics. For more information, contact Professor McElroy. |
Energy Commerce |
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Certificate description: The Certificate Program in Energy Commerce provides undergraduate business students enhanced preparation for careers in the energy industry. EC certificate holders will have the advantage of an understanding of the industry and its basic vocabulary, as well as the benefit of several experiences such as an industry internship, significant interaction with industry leaders, field trips to a wide range of facilities and completion of an energy-related capstone project. |
Global Engagement Certificate in Business |
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Certificate description: The certificate in Global Engagement is designed to help students develop essential skills and knowledge that will better prepare them for worldwide leadership and service. The certificate program brings together students who have an interest in global affairs with an emphasis on the business perspective. |
Tracks
The Marketing major also has a Sports Strategy and Sales (S3) track. Within this program, students can choose between one of two parallel tracks that determine your internship and path: analytics and sales leadership.
Sports Strategy and Sales (S3) |
