IUPUC Programs
Undergraduate Programs
Division of Business
The Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus Undergraduate Program in Business provides opportunities for breadth of education as well as for a reasonable amount of specialization. Consistent with the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) perspective, the school subscribes to the principle that a significant portion of a student’s academic program should be in general education subjects, complemented by study in the basic areas of business administration. This assures the planning of balanced study programs while enabling a student with an interest in one or more of the professional areas of business to specialize in those fields.
Bachelor of Science Degree Programs
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a Concentration in Accounting
The accounting curriculum prepares students for careers in auditing, corporate accounting and management consulting, governmental and nonprofit organizations, and taxation. In addition, it equips the prospective business executive with tools for intelligent analysis, planning, control, and decision making. The accounting curriculum also provides excellent background for the student who wants to pursue graduate work in business, public administration, or law.Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a Concentration in Computer Information Systems
Information has joined land, labor, capital, and materials as a central resource for all business managers. Thus, although management specialists with an in-depth education in information systems are needed, every manager is called on to utilize information for business advantage.
Information systems include computers, a wide variety of programming languages, telecommunications, mathematical modeling and computer software for data analysis, factory and office automation, robotics, and expert systems. Managers need to know how and when to apply these technologies, how organizations can acquire and manage information systems that use these technologies, and how businesses should organize themselves to take advantage of opportunities through these technologies.
Students from all areas of business can benefit from understanding information systems. For example, since accounting systems are usually computerized, cost accountants, auditors, and corporate finance managers must be able to use and analyze information systems. General managers need to understand information systems as organizational innovations that must be adopted and implemented simultaneously with changes in organizational designs, strategies, and behaviors. Market researchers must be able to extract data from large databases and analyze them using sophisticated decision and business modeling techniques. Manufacturing and engineering managers must understand the linkages between technical and business computing applications.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a Concentration in Finance
This concentration provides students with familiarity of the instruments and institution of finance with a financial approach for structuring and analyzing management decisions.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a Concentration in Human Resource Management
This program is designed for students whose career objectives lie in the field of personnel management. From its early beginnings as a staff function involving the maintenance of records and the administration of benefit programs, personnel administration has grown and expanded to encompass the total development and deployment of human resources in organizations. While company titles may vary from vice president of industrial relations to vice president for organization planning and development, there are few firms of any size or consequence today that do not have a human resource management specialist reporting directly to the company’s highest level. This practice reflects the awareness that the people who work in an organization are its greatest assets.
The curriculum in human resource management is designed to acquaint the student with modern personnel management in its broadest sense. Included are both the traditional areas of personnel administration and labor relations (such as employment, management development, wage and salary administration, organizational planning, and contract negotiation) and developments in the behavioral sciences with implications for a complete human resource management program.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a Concentration in Management
Society recognizes the importance of understanding both management itself and the complex nature of the organizations—in business, government, hospitals, and universities—in which managers operate. The faculty is concerned with improving this understanding through the study of individual and group behavior, organizational theory, and human resource development.
The undergraduate courses offered in this major are concerned not only with the broad aspects of management and organization, but also with developing skills for dealing with problems of motivation, organization design, and the increasingly complex problems of human resource allocations in our interdependent society.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a Concentration in Marketing
The study of marketing concerns all activities related to the marketing and distribution of goods and services from producers to consumers. Areas of study include customer behavior, the development of product offerings to meet consumer needs, pricing policies, institutions and channels of distribution (including retailers and wholesalers), advertising, selling, sales promotion, research, and the management of marketing to provide for profitable and expanding businesses.
The marketing curriculum endeavors to provide the business community with broadly trained men and women who can approach problems with a clear understanding both of marketing and of the interrelationships between marketing and other functions of the firm. Students planning careers in marketing management, advertising, sales, sales management, retailing, wholesaling, marketing research, or distribution normally major in marketing and then may pursue within the curriculum a modest degree of specialization in the area of their vocational interest.
Minors
Business
A minor in business can be a valuable addition to any major. The study of business will help you in your roles as a citizen, consumer, and employee. It will accentuate your decision-making skills, help you understand and improve processes, give you the tools to manage people, and broaden your perspective in the workplace beyond your role as an individual. A business minor can be particularly worthwhile for students who may someday hope to run their own business.