Program Opportunities

• Major in Business Management
• Minor in Business

Overview

As a business management major, you’ll engage in project-based learning that applies to a wide variety of entry-level jobs. You’ll identify a business startup idea and complete a full-scale business plan which banks or venture capitalists would require when considering funding the endeavor. These learning experiences prepare you to become a management trainee, a human resources information system administrator, a merchandising manager, a pricing analyst, and much more.

Program Highlights

• In the past few years, management students have accepted positions with companies such as Enterprise Holdings, Welch Packaging, Steel Dynamics, Banker's Life and Do It Best Corp., to name a few.
• Every student completing a major in the Gilbert College of Business must complete at least one internship experience.  Business faculty will work with students to facilitate internship placement.
• In the capstone course Case Studies in Business, required of all majors in the college, students organize and operate a business for a semester and then donate their earnings to a nonprofit of their choosing. Manchester business students have donated more than $125,510 and over 10,306 hours of service to various nonprofit organizations.

Successful Graduates

• Brody Kirby ’18 played both basketball and football at MU.  He received the L.D. Ikenberry award—the highest award in the Gilbert College of Business which is presented to the most outstanding graduate.  Brody is a Second Lieutenant in the United State Marine Corps, stationed in Japan.
  
• Brianna Hill ’19 earned a double major in business management and Spanish, spent a semester abroad in Spain, and served as the President of the College of Business Club.  She also received the prestigious L.D. Ikenberry award.  She is a management trainee with Steel Dynamics in Fort Wayne.
• Isaac Ray ’20, who was a wrestler at Manchester, is attending law school at the University of Missouri.
• Nathaniel Brewer ’21 was a soccer player at Manchester and joined Multimatic in New Haven, IN as a group leader.
• Austen Gowen ’21 was active with MU’s marching band and is now a store manager with Family Express.
• Maddie Dailey ’22 received the Outstanding Business Management Major award. She started her own business, Madison Enterprises LLC, while she was in college, and she also owns and operates an American Family Insurance Agency in Elwood, IN.