Faculty: Allison, Bianco, C. Finaret, Nonnenmacher, Onyeiwu, Ormiston, Waugh

The Business major is a program in the Social and Behavioral Science Area of Study. Business majors may not double major or minor in Economics.

Business Major Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete a Business major will:

• Gain a deep knowledge of the managerial and business concepts typically used by the business and nonprofit world.
• Acquire the tools, skills, and competencies needed to solve practical problems faced by business organizations and nonprofit institutions.
• Understand some of the mechanisms and conduits through which business can contribute to social welfare, including business ethics, public policy corporate responsibility, corporate citizenship, and environmental sustainability.
• Gain the ability to read, evaluate and interpret financial statements.
• Significantly improve their ability to communicate business information, as well as write business reports that are intelligible to a lay audience.
• Through experiential learning programs, recognize the relationship between business and society by learning about contentious issues in society and the global economy.

The Business Major

The Business major, consisting of 52 credits in Business, leads to the Bachelor of Arts degree. At graduation, Business majors must have a GPA of at least 2.0 in the major. All major courses taken for a letter grade at Allegheny are included in the calculation, with the exception of repeated courses. Only the most recent grade is considered for courses that have been repeated. All courses required for the major must be taken for a letter grade except one of the introductory courses (ECON 100  or ECON 101 ).   A maximum of 12 transfer credits may be counted toward the major; exceptions must be approved by the department chair..