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BBA in Business Administration (Fast-Track)

Become the skilled, well-rounded professional that organizations need

The Business Administration major prepares students for a wide range of jobs across various industries. It provides the general skills that can transfer into a variety of career choices. Focused on the management, operational, and marketing skills that are crucial to running a business, a business administration major will prepare students for any number of entry-level positions in a variety of organizations, such as financial institutions, professional firms, medical clinics/hospitals, government, and non-profit agencies.

SXU's Mercy mission is the foundation of the BBA fast-track at SXU, which means students also grow into wise and compassionate leaders, supporting human dignity and the common good. As your career progresses, your responsibilities and influence will grow from managing day-to-day operations to overseeing strategic activities like directing complex projects and setting long-term objectives.

Why Earn your Degree in Business Administration?

Individuals who work toward a degree in business administration learn to achieve an organization's objectives by planning and directing the activities of others, which leads to administering businesses. Large corporations and even government agencies need such individuals. All professionals, even non-managers, benefit from the interpersonal skills learned in the Business Administration major because they learn what motivates people and how to negotiate with others to achieve professional goals.

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Top 15 in Illinois

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Accreditation

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business log

AACSB-accredited schools are trailblazers in teaching, research and societal impact. Our business school quality standards are always evolving, with our most recent change underscoring the importance of positive societal impact in business education. AACSB's standards are principles-based and easily adaptable to new educational models, ever-changing business needs, diverse workforce and lifelong learner demands, and the fast pace of new and emerging technologies.

 

 

 

About the Program

Students learn specific skills and knowledge to become well-rounded professionals in today's fast-changing world. In MGMT 370: Organizational Behavior and MGMT 330: Diversity in Organizations, students learn what drives motivation, including compensation, decision-making processes, autonomy, and organizational culture, across a diverse workforce and how managers address diverse requirements. The most important managerial skills are learned in BANA 351: Project Management and POLSC-305: Bargaining and Conflict Resolution. Finally, MGMT 364: Entrepreneurship prepares students to lead small organizations that are the lifeblood of the economy. Students enhance skills through client-based classroom projects, digital marketing competitions, simulations, certifications, and case studies. In various courses (MKTG 350, MKTG 355, MKTG 380, and MKTG 361), students will either work with a real-world client to develop marketing strategies, compete in a digital marketing competition, engage with digital marketing simulations, and gain valuable in-course certifications (through Google and HubSpot). All assignments are tailored to build career readiness skills.

MGMT-381: Management Internship is a general elective where students earn three credit hours of college credit for completing a substantial and lengthy management project at an employer or volunteer organization. Each management, marketing, finance, and business analytics course also encompasses high-impact practices, including consulting projects with external organizations and in-depth analyses of management and marketing cases and operational problems.

  1. Employee Motivation: Understand the motivational effects of compensation, work policies, decision-making processes, and culture on individuals and team members for productive deployment.
  2. Diversity: Embrace differences across people to create and maintain a work culture that builds on diverse strengths and experiences.
  3. Project Management: Recognize and apply concepts, techniques, and decision tools for effective project management.
  4. Negotiation: Use negotiation approaches to plan, prepare for, and manage conflicts.
  5. Entrepreneurship: Prepare funding and organizational structure plans to launch and manage a new venture.
  6. Quantitative Skills: Students will learn to apply quantitative skills to real-world scenarios to create solutions to business problems.
  7. Real World cases: Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to work effectively with a real-world client through a case-based classroom project.

SXU's Graham School of Management programs are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the most prestigious and demanding level of accreditation for business schools. An institution that is AACSB-accredited is represented by state-of-the-art business faculty who are generating knowledge in their fields and who have extensive work experience. Many employers look to AACSB schools and their graduates exclusively because they understand that these students have been trained in a manner that prepares them for the marketplace and that they possess core competencies. With the Graham School of Management giving students a competitive edge and ensuring more opportunities, it is SXU students who stand out in the job search.

SXU's accelerated BBA+MBA Dual Degree program combines a four-year Bachelor of Business Administration and a two-year Master of Business Administration into a five-year program. Students complete 120 credit hours of undergraduate coursework and 30 credit hours of graduate coursework to fulfill the dual BBA+MBA degree. Students may take up to 12 credit hours of MBA coursework concurrent with their undergraduate coursework during their senior year.

Students are encouraged to apply to the 4+1 program in their junior year. Upon acceptance, students may register for courses at the graduate level with permission from the director of the Graham School of Management and the director of the MBA program. The BBA degree is awarded after successful completion of all undergraduate requirements. The MBA degree is awarded upon successful completion of the graduate requirements.

For more information, please contact the GSM director at ghoshFREESXU.

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"My journey pursuing a BBA at SXU has left an indelible mark on my professional and personal growth. The academic curriculum and internship opportunities equipped me with a solid foundation to confidently kickstart my career and contribute to the advancement of accounting in today's dynamic landscape."

 

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