The opportunity of a lifetime—that’s what a major in Business Management can mean for you.

You’ll learn to read balance sheets and income statements. You’ll calculate the net present value of investments, and use enterprise software like SAP to diagnose a company’s operations. You’ll conduct a marketing campaign, learn how to motivate team members, and analyze corporate strategy.

If you choose to study abroad, you’ll have a world of choices, with business-school partners from China to England to Argentina to help you complete the global-business component. When you come back, we’ll be eager to help you research and write a senior capstone to help show employers what you’ve learned, and what you can contribute.

The Process

The Business Management major consists of four components:

1. Required Courses
2. Global Business Requirement
3. BUS Elective
4. Senior Capstone Experience

1. Required Courses

Economics Foundation (two courses)

Plan ahead: These courses can help you fulfill the college’s social-science distribution requirement.

ECN 111	Introduction to Macroeconomics
ECN 112	Introduction to Microeconomics

Quantitative Foundation (two courses)

The BUS major requires two quantitative courses—a statistics course, and a finance course.

This quantitative sequence counts toward the college’s distribution requirements, meaning that a BUS major can complete the Natural Science and Quantitative distribution requirement with BUS 109, BUS 209, and a science course.

First course: Statistics

One of these courses:

• BUS 109 Managerial Statistics*
• MAT 109 Statistics
• ECN 215 Data Analysis (for ECN-BUS double majors)
• PSY 209 Statistics and Experimental Design (for PSY-BUS double majors)

* Course counts as “liberal studies” for Phi Beta Kappa.

Note: these four statistics courses are so similar that credit is not normally given if more than one of them is taken.

Second course: Financial Analysis

• BUS 209 Financial Analysis

Core BUS Courses (six courses)

BUS 111	Principles of Marketing
BUS 112	Introduction to Financial Accounting
BUS 210	Management Information Systems
BUS 302	Organizational Behavior*
Legal/Ethics Component	Choose from BUS 303 Legal Environment of Business*, BUS 360 Corporate Social Responsibility*, or a PHL ethics course
BUS 401	Strategic Management

*Course counts as “liberal studies” for Phi Beta Kappa.

2. Global Business Requirement

Since business is global, the Business Management major includes a global business requirement. (International students are exempt.)

There are several ways to fulfill the requirement:

1.	Study abroad for a semester, or participate in any study-abroad experience that earns Washington College credit.
2.	Studying a foreign language through the 202-level.
3.	Taking two global-focus courses, one in Business Management and one outside the Department.

Learn more about global business opportunities here.

3. BUS elective

As part of the major, one BUS elective is required. It must be at the 200-level or above, and may consist of any BUS course that is not one of the core BUS courses listed above (202, 210, 302, 303, 401). The course you choose to satisfy this elective requirement may not also be used to satisfy the global business requirement.

4. Senior Capstone Experience (SCE)

At Washington College, every senior undertakes an intensive independent research project, in close consultation with a faculty advisor. There’s no better way to bring together what you’ve learned about critical thinking, systematic research, sharp analysis, and clear writing.

You’ll work hard on your Business Management capstone—so it can work for you.