B.S.,
Management,
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Track
Eberly College of Business and Information Tech.
What You'll Do
Independent thinkers see opportunities and are willing to apply themselves to make them pay off. As a Management major pursuing the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management track at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, you’ll learn the techniques behind successfully starting a business and keeping it running.
Among the classes you’ll take are Accounting Principles I and II, Legal Environment of Business, Fundamentals of Finance, Principles of Marketing, Production and Operations Management, Business Statistics, Introduction to Entrepreneurship, and Small Business Planning.
In the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management track, you’ll gain an outstanding educational foundation on which to build a small business. This track is also an ideal preparation for working in a small business, where the manager often must perform several roles and manage aspects of both operations and human resources.
What You'll Become
The Bachelor of Science in Management degree achieved in pursuit of the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management track prepares you for starting or working in a small business. For those working in a small business, the services sector, including health care, information technology, finance, and transportation, is expected to offer more job growth potential for managers than will manufacturing through the year 2016, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, as industrial companies downsize, they need managers who can streamline their operations or run more than one area.
During economic slowdowns, businesses that are large tend to outsource some operations to reduce costs, often creating opportunities for their smaller counterparts.