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Undergraduate Education

Undergraduate students in the W. Frank Barton School of Business can receive a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in the following majors:

• Accounting

The School of Accountancy offers courses in financial accounting, managerial accounting, auditing, taxation, and accounting information systems. The School offers a four-year bachelor's degree program, and an efficient, coordinated five-year extended program which combines undergraduate and graduate requirements and culminates in the Master of Accountancy degree.

• Business Administration

If you want to pursue a broad-based and management-oriented undergraduate and increase your knowledge in the basic business disciplines and functions, the business administration major is for you. The program is ideal for you if you want to pursue a career in general management, expect to join a family business, or want to work for a small or medium-sized business (as opposed to a large corporation).

• Economics

The Department of Economics offers course work in three areas of study--macroeconomic theory, microeconomic theory, and statistics and quantitative methods. You can earn an undergraduate economics degree through either the Barton School of Business or the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

• Economics-Emphasis in Real Estate

A major in economics with an emphasis in real estate (Real Estate and Land Use Economics) is designed to serve the needs of students interested in broader conceptual and policy issues associated with real estate and land use.

• Entrepreneurship

If you want to establish your own enterprise or operate a new and rapidly growing business, consider the entrepreneurship major at Wichita State. This degree program offers special training to help you prepare for involvement with a family-owned business, new business development or other innovative activities within large corporations.

• Entrepreneurship-Emphasis in Real Estate

This Real Estate Development degree is designed for students interested in pursuing a career in property development or managing their own real estate company.

• Finance

Finance is the study of the acquisition, dispersion and flow of funds within an organization. Wichita State's degree program in finance allows you the freedom to concentrate in the following areas: investments, financial markets and institutions, corporate financial management, or real estate and land use economics.

• Finance-Emphasis in Banking

This major is designed to prepare students for a career in financial institutions. Students in this major will complete courses in contemporary banking issues, financial institutions, and contemporary bank management.

• Human Resource Management

The Human Resource Management major prepares you to perform various facets of the human resource management function, including recruitment, selection, training and development, and compensation. You'll take courses in human resource management as well as general management courses in leadership, motivation, communication, and organizational development and design. The WSU program is the only Human Resource Management in the Kansas Regents' System.

• International Business

The major in international business is a multi-disciplinary program that will prepare you for doing business in a global environment. You'll take courses from various departments in the Barton School as well as languages, culture, and area studies courses from liberal arts and sciences.

• Management

The new Management curriculum is a skills-based curriculum designed to help students develop the skills necessary to succeed in a rapidly changing business environment. The skills learned have been identified by employers as necessary for effective management at all levels.

• Management Information Systems

If you want a career in Management Information Systems (MIS) and Information Technology (IT), then consider majoring in MIS at WSU. The MIS major is an integrated sequence of seven courses which prepare you for a variety of IT positions including business applications programmer, system analyst, database designer, www developer, network administrator and departmental MIS manager.

• Marketing

Marketing encompasses consumer behavior, retail business site selection, store layout, distribution, sales promotion of new and existing products or services, impact of foreign cultures and marketing systems, budgetary issues, market information and sale force management. As a marketing major, you will begin with general business core courses and then specialize with an array of marketing courses.

• Marketing-Emphasis in Real Estate

A major in marketing with an emphasis in real estate (Real Estate Marketing) is intended to prepare students for a career in real estate marketing, particularly commercial real estate brokerage.