OVERVIEW

The ever-changing world of business and commerce requires up-to-the-minute theoretical instruction combined with practical experience. Whether your career focus is accounting, finance, marketing, sports management, or business management, the Waynesburg University Business Major provides the experience and personalized guidance you will need for success.

Waynesburg University graduates have succeeded in a variety of careers: from work at major accounting firms to Wall Street banking. Alumni have founded their own companies or launched rewarding careers in Fortune 500 corporations, government, and public service, in addition to the non-profit sector, health-related fields, and education.

Benefiting from faculty who have worked in business, Waynesburg University students learn reality-based applications of business principles. Our internships provide valuable experience before you graduate that can lead to employment.

Waynesburg's growing prominence in international studies reflects a commitment to helping students understand their role in a diverse society. Today's fast-paced, global economic environment provides new opportunities to put your business skills to use overseas. Studies and internships are possible in Moscow, Vienna, Korea, Singapore, and other international business centers.

You Will Benefit From Our Hands-On Approach
Don't wait to develop your professional interests. Waynesburg University will give you the hands-on experience you will find so important later.

As a Business Major, you have direct access to personalized instruction and advising plus a range of special features. The program is not just a series of classes, it is a comprehensive, unified experience with your career needs in mind.

Our multi-level learning approach gives you more than one set of professional skills. For example, even if your career focus is finance, you will need to learn how to write well.

Internship opportunities abound
Waynesburg University students have interned at Price Waterhouse Cooper, US-Steel Corp., and other major firms as well as retail outlets, insurance agencies, hotels and service businesses, and similar organizations around the region.

Convenient computer facilities along with business classrooms and conference areas are found in the Piatt Center in Historic Hanna Hall, a traditional college building on the outside with a corporate suite of offices on the inside.

Most of all, you will learn from an experienced, caring faculty in small classroom settings. They will work hard to give each student the competitive edge they need.

Select from these Distinctive Business Tracks:

•  Accounting
  
•  Advertising (business and communication)
  
•  Finance
  
•  Forensic Accounting
  
•  Business Management
  
•  Marketing
  
•  Public Accounting
  
•  Small Business Management
  
•  Sports Management
  
•  Pre-MBA Certificate Program

Advertising
One of the program's newest options is Advertising, a joint experience in communication and business. You will explore graphic design and visual communication, as well as the business side of marketing. You will learn how to forecast the success of a product or service, to read trends, and to develop consumer marketing plans. When you graduate, you will be qualified to promote just about anything, creatively, efficiently, and ethically.

Forensic Accounting
The Forensic Accounting Major is an option that combines Criminal Justice coursework with Accounting coursework. Forensic Accounting prepares a student for fraud investigations, such as bankruptcy, insurance trading practices, employee/employer reporting, covert examinations, and money laundering schemes. The dramatic growth in economic crimes throughout all sectors of the criminal justice system has provided a need for specialized knowledge in Forensic Accounting.

International Studies (International Business Option)
The International Business course of study is an option under the International Studies Program. With increasing importance placed on the globalization of world economies, this study option prepares a student who is planning a career engaged in global trade, international human resource management, and foreign direct investment.

What are the Special Advantages of a Waynesburg University Education?

At Waynesburg University you will receive personalized advising in your academic field and guidance in your career planning. Classes are small and personal, and you will be taught by faculty, not teaching assistants.

The Business Major at Waynesburg

College offers so much for life and career preparation. You will receive a foundation based upon many different facets of business administration. Those great liberal arts skills of writing, creative and analytical thinking, and ethical decision making will help make you especially marketable. You will learn to think on your feet and to work out problems, often as part of a team with your fellow students.