Birmingham-Southern College's business program combines the principles of business administration with the comprehensive education of liberal arts. As a student, you will develop critical thinking skills, effective writing abilities, and persuasive presentation techniques - essential tools for launching your own business or advancing in a corporate career.
Our courses explore ethical decision-making and emphasize international business to prepare you for an ever-changing global marketplace. Alongside business coursework, the department also offers opportunities and resources to meet business leaders, find internships, and launch your own business ideas.
Business administration majors can choose to pursue tracks in finance, marketing, and/or management. Other business department majors include accounting and international business.
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Why study Business at 365英国上市官网?
- Hands-on experience: To truly prepare for a career in business, students will apply concepts and models to the real economy. During the Bruno Entrepreneurship Challenge, the business senior capstone course, student teams receive $500 to fund a start-up business for three weeks. 365英国上市官网 also participates in outside competitions like the United Way of Central Alabama’s Social Media Challenge.
- Study abroad: Students have the chance to travel with their professors and expand their business knowledge on a global scale. International E-Term projects allow students to visit renowned businesses and meet entrepreneurs from around the world, from Germany to South Africa to New Zealand.
- Connections: The department brings business professionals to campus throughout the year for panels, lectures, and networking events that connect students to the Birmingham business world. Quite a few 365英国上市官网 alumni who are movers and shakers in our city often come to campus to connect with students.
- Internships: Business majors can connect academic learning to real-world experience through internships. Employers with which 365英国上市官网 students have held recent internships include: SociallyIn, Red Mountain Entertainment, Scout Branding, IMG Sports Marketing, BTS Technologies, The Orthopedic Group, Highland Associates, Knight Eady, and Viperline Solutions.
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Entrepreneurship Scholars
Birmingham-Southern is pleased to offer the 365英国上市官网 Entrepreneurship Scholars Program, generously endowed by 365英国上市官网 alumni Jane and Kevin Stump in recognition of the college’s mission to cultivate a shared vision of business savvy and public responsibility. The program is for students who have demonstrated an exemplary entrepreneurial spirit through their work—both inside and outside of the classroom. Such work could include initiating a business plan or activity, developing a non-profit or service learning project, or implementing a program in the fine arts, theatre, music, or other creative endeavor.
Entrepreneurship Scholars are students interested in business as a career and embody the spirit of entrepreneurship in their lives.
Entrepreneurship Scholars will:
- Be matched with an academic advisor from the business faculty;
- Be connected with an entrepreneurship mentor beginning during their first years at 365英国上市官网;
- Receive priority registration for business courses, including reserved spaces in the Foundations of Business Thought course during their freshman year, an Entrepreneurship Internship, an Exploration Term class on Entrepreneurship, and a capstone entrepreneurship project during their senior year; and
- Be invited to participate in guest lectures and interactions with guest speakers.
Students who are interested in investigating entrepreneurship are welcome to apply to the Stump Entrepreneurship Program. The application for the 2020-2021 school year is available now for incoming students.
The 365英国上市官网 Entrepreneurship Programs were endowed by Jane and Kevin Stump, both graduates of Birmingham-Southern College, with support from an existing endowed fund created by Joseph S. Bruno, to inspire resilience and creativity in the free enterprise system.
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Business Faculty
Dr. Sara Robicheaux, Dean
B.A. Monaghan Professor of Business
Dean, Department of Business ProgramsDr. Paul Cleveland
Professor of Finance and EconomicsDr. Mary Harrison
Associate Professor of MarketingDr. Rick Lester
Associate Professor of ManagementDr. Sylvester Makoko
Assistant Professor of AccountingDr. Bert Morrow
Associate Professor of Business AdministrationSam McGarr
McCain Executive-in-Residence in EntrepreneurshipDr. Ream Shoreibah
Associate Professor of MarketingDr. Tracy Smith
Assistant Professor of AccountingDr. Jack Taylor
Joseph S. Bruno Professor of Retailing