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Business Administration offers three concentrations:
- General Business Administration
- Accounting
- Marketing
All three integrate these basic business disciplines, with optiosn for specialization:
- Accounting
- Finance
- Management
- Marketing
- Statistics
While specialization does not occur until graduate school, you begin to develop expertise in a specific area by the end of your junior year. You may choose to concentrate in accounting or marketing.
Since Alma’s business administration faculty all have actual business experience in the areas they teach, you receive instruction based on first-hand knowledge. In the tradition of America’s best business schools:
- You learn decision-making and problem-solving skills using the case study method.
- A senior year seminar in business strategy exposes you to complex corporate marketing, managerial and financial problems.
Internships
You may plan a business-related internship to get on-the-job experience before leaving college. Practical experiences are available in accounting, general business management, finance and marketing. Not only do internships give you valuable professional training, they also let you make important personal contacts with potential employers — contacts that can result in job offers even before you graduate.
Graduate School
Because M.B.A. programs prefer to enroll students with actual business experience, many Alma business administration graduates enter the job market first. Companies often contribute to graduate school expenses for their employees.
Alma Business Administration grads have gone on to very prestigious business schools including:
- Indiana University
- Northwestern University
- University of Chicago
- University of Michigan
- Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Michigan State University.
Professional Work
Alma arranges on- and off-campus interviews with many corporate representatives. You can interview with Chicago employers in the In-City Interview Program and Detroit employers in the Detroit Roundtable.
Companies that have interviewed or hired Alma business graduates:
- Allstate Insurance
- Bank of Alma
- Cable News Network (CNN)
- Central Michigan Community Hospital
- Chamber of Commerce: Gratiot County
- City Governments: Alma, Grand Rapids
- DaimlerChrysler
- Dow Corning
- Edward Jones
- Enterprise Rent-A-Car
- General Motors
- Gratiot Community Hospital
- Kellogg Company
- Make-A-Wish Foundation
- Maner, Costerisan & Ellis, P.C.
- Michigan Masonic Pathways
- PentaMark.worldwide
- Plante & Moran, LLP
- Saks Fifth Avenue
- Salomon Smith Barney
- Steelcase
- U.S. Senator Carl Levin
- United Way
- WLNS-TV 6 Lansing
