Management

Do you want to use your leadership and planning skills in the real world?

Are you interested in developing an understanding of the nature and capabilities of human and physical resources?

Management, BBA

The management major will give you the foundation you need to thrive in leadership roles in a variety of professions, including administrators, executives, operations managers, human resource managers, management consultants, proprietor managers and purchasing managers. Graduates are employed in industries such as manufacturing, public utilities, oil and transportation, merchandising, banking, government and non-profit entities.

And if you’re an entrepreneurial Lumberjack, a management degree with an entrepreneurship minor can give you the skills needed to set off on your own in the business world.

All SFA undergraduate students must complete the university's core curriculum. Business students also must complete two business common courses, including the Career Success Passport, and BBA students are required to complete foundations of knowledge business courses.

Required courses

• MGMT 3370 - Management Principles
• MGMT 3371 - Operations Management
• MGMT 4363 - Strategic Management
• MGMT 4322 - International Management
• MGMT 4372 - Management Information Systems

Elective courses

You must complete a total of 15 credit hours to satisfy the program's elective requirements. 

Three to six credit hours from the following:

• ACCT 3333 - Cost Accounting
• MGMT 3380 - Quantitative Management Methods
• MKTG 4355 - Marketing Research and Analytics

Nine to 12 credit hours from the following:

• MGMT 3325 - Principles of Sports Business
• MGMT 3345 - Business of College Sports
• MGMT 3366 - Entrepreneurial Family Firms
• MGMT 3372 - Supply Chain Management
• MGMT 3373 - Human Resource Management
• MGMT 3377 - Organizational Behavior
• MGMT 3379 - Employee and Labor Relations
• MGMT 3383 - Purchasing and Materials Management
• MGMT 3385 - Organizational Leadership
• MGMT 3390 - Principles of Entrepreneurship
• MGMT 4170 - Topics in Management
• MGMT 4175 - Special Problems in Management
• MGMT 4176 - Internship Management
• MGMT 4344 - Project Management
• MGMT 4361 - Supervisory Management
• MGMT 4364 - Entrepreneurial Field Studies
• MGMT 4371 - Services Management
• MGMT 4380 - Sports Analytics
• MGMT 4384 - Compensation and Benefits
• MGMT 4385 - Entrepreneurship: Opportunity Assessment

Curriculum requirements

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Suggested course sequence

Our management degree major academic planner serves as a guide to help you be "on track" for graduation by taking the right courses in the right order.