Management Concentration (BBA)

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Great management can be the difference between a company's success or failure. The management concentration prepares you for careers across the corporate, nonprofit, and public sectors. You'll learn the ins and outs of leadership and decision making, discover how to manage teams and human resources, and become an expert in operations and communications across domestic and international business. Your education will be grounded in the staples of business education while exploring contemporary and emerging management trends. 

Explore BBA: Management courses

Business administration major (BBA)—management concentration

Courses in the BBA management concentration enhance foundational business education with a focus on leadership, decision-making, and emerging and contemporary management trends.

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Internships for management students

We make sure you leave Hamline with hands-on management experience on your resume—and the opportunities are boundless. Whether you want to explore a career in operations, talent recruitment, marketing, or beyond, we have internship opportunities for you.

Examples of past management concentration student internships include:

  • Aerotek, intern
  • Coldwell Banker Burnet, marketing intern
  • Roseville Parks and Recreation Department, intern
  • St. Paul Saints, game day intern
  • SICK Inc., customer care intern
  • Friends of Saint Paul Hockey, marketing intern
  • Compeer Financial, crop insurance intern
  • Metro Sales, sales intern
  • Time Essence Express Transportation Company, assistant manager
  • Carbones Pizzeria, management intern
  • Prince Contracting, contracting foreman

Explore career paths

Our innovative courses and one-on-one mentoring by faculty will give you the tools to succeed in a variety of jobs, such as:

  • Marketing manager
  • Operations supervisor
  • Business analyst
  • Accounts manager
  • Client services specialist
  • Human resources manager

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You can also put your degree to work in any number of fields, including:

  • Business or retail management
  • Human resources and recruiting
  • Industrial relations
  • Production management
  • Advertising sales
  • International management
  • Commercial banking
  • Operations research analysis
  • Credit analysis
  • Nonprofit administration

Why study business management at Hamline?

 

Better prepare for your career with our mentor program

With Hamline's career mentor program, you'll graduate with advanced career preparation after working one-on-one with your personal senior executive mentor to plan your career and learn what you need to impress hiring managers and recruiters.

Explore the Bachelor of Business Administration

Hamline’s Business Administration (BBA) degree encompasses a wide range of instruction and skill-building designed to make you a leader in today’s ever-changing business landscape. Other Business Administration concentration include:

Accounting
Business analytics
Finance 
Marketing

Add a complementary minor to enhance your career

Stand out from the crowd and learn the skills necessary to thrive in any career with one of Hamline's interdisciplinary minors.

Business practice minor

Our minor in business practice gives non-business majors a foundational knowledge of businesses' critical functions, and the analytical tools to support them.

Learn about the Business Practice minor

Data visualization minor

Learn to generate data visualizations using a broad array of software applications and programming languages, while exploring the ethical considerations.

Learn about the data visualization minor

Economic analysis minor

Build an interdisciplinary toolkit with select economics courses that will enhance your talents in another field.

Learn about the economic analysis minor

Leadership minor

With Hamline's leadership minor, you’ll discover and enhance your unique style of influencing, inspiring, and mobilizing others toward common goals.

Learn about the leadership minor

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