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Department of Business Programs

 

Birmingham-Southern College's business program combines the principles of business administration with the comprehensive education of liberal arts. As a student, you will develop critical thinking skills, effective writing abilities, and persuasive presentation techniques - essential tools for launching your own business or advancing in a corporate career.

Our courses explore ethical decision-making and emphasize international business to prepare you for an ever-changing global marketplace. Alongside business coursework, the department also offers opportunities and resources to meet business leaders, find internships, and launch your own business ideas.

Business administration majors can choose to pursue tracks in finance, marketing, and/or management. Other business department majors include accounting and international business.

Interested? Fill out the form to the right and an admissions representative will follow up with you to start your Hilltop journey.

Chart your course with BSC Business!


 

Why study Business at BSC?

  • Hands-on experience: To truly prepare for a career in business, students will apply concepts and models to the real economy. During the Bruno Entrepreneurship Challenge, the business senior capstone course, student teams receive $500 to fund a start-up business for three weeks. BSC also participates in outside competitions like the United Way of Central Alabama’s Social Media Challenge.
  • Study abroad: Students have the chance to travel with their professors and expand their business knowledge on a global scale. International E-Term projects allow students to visit renowned businesses and meet entrepreneurs from around the world, from Germany to South Africa to New Zealand.
  • Connections: The department brings business professionals to campus throughout the year for panels, lectures, and networking events that connect students to the Birmingham business world. Quite a few BSC alumni who are movers and shakers in our city often come to campus to connect with students.
  • Internships: Business majors can connect academic learning to real-world experience through internships. Employers with which BSC students have held recent internships include: SociallyIn, Red Mountain Entertainment, Scout Branding, IMG Sports Marketing, BTS Technologies, The Orthopedic Group, Highland Associates, Knight Eady, and Viperline Solutions.
 
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Anoop Mishra: An Investment in the Future

Although his time at BSC was spent completing a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Mishra’s minor in Business Administration opened his eyes to the possibilities of a career in business. And despite his previous eagerness to move out of state for college, he soon found that Birmingham was a prime location for a student wanting to branch out into the world of finance.

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Entrepreneurial Thinking

For business classes like “Entrepreneurial Thinking,” experience in business development helps take the coursework and learning objectives to the next level – especially when that experience covers the legal field, startup development, and international community and economic investment.

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Bert Morrow: 20 Years on the Hilltop

In the world of business, Dr. Bert Morrow is a jack-of-all-trades. Perhaps his most beloved mark on the BSC Business community is his month-long European Agribusiness E-Term course, which gives 20 students a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of food production.

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    Entrepreneurship Scholars

    Birmingham-Southern is pleased to offer the BSC Entrepreneurship Scholars Program, generously endowed by BSC alumni Jane and Kevin Stump in recognition of the college’s mission to cultivate a shared vision of business savvy and public responsibility. The program is for students who have demonstrated an exemplary entrepreneurial spirit through their work—both inside and outside of the classroom. Such work could include initiating a business plan or activity, developing a non-profit or service learning project, or implementing a program in the fine arts, theatre, music, or other creative endeavor.

    Entrepreneurship Scholars are students interested in business as a career and embody the spirit of entrepreneurship in their lives.

    Entrepreneurship Scholars will:

    • Be matched with an academic advisor from the business faculty;
    • Be connected with an entrepreneurship mentor beginning during their first years at BSC;
    • Receive priority registration for business courses, including reserved spaces in the Foundations of Business Thought course during their freshman year, an Entrepreneurship Internship, an Exploration Term class on Entrepreneurship, and a capstone entrepreneurship project during their senior year; and
    • Be invited to participate in guest lectures and interactions with guest speakers.

    Students who are interested in investigating entrepreneurship are welcome to apply to the Stump Entrepreneurship Program. The application for the 2020-2021 school year is available now for incoming students.


    The BSC Entrepreneurship Programs were endowed by Jane and Kevin Stump, both graduates of Birmingham-Southern College, with support from an existing endowed fund created by Joseph S. Bruno, to inspire resilience and creativity in the free enterprise system.

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    Business Faculty

    Dr. Sara Robicheaux, Dean
    B.A. Monaghan Professor of Business
    Dean, Department of Business Programs

    Dr. Paul Cleveland
    Professor of Finance and Economics

    Dr. Mary Harrison
    Associate Professor of Marketing

    Dr. Rick Lester
    Associate Professor of Management

    Dr. Sylvester Makoko
    Assistant Professor of Accounting

    Dr. Bert Morrow
    Associate Professor of Business Administration

    Sam McGarr 
    McCain Executive-in-Residence in Entrepreneurship

    Dr. Ream Shoreibah
    Associate Professor of Marketing

    Dr. Tracy Smith
    Assistant Professor of Accounting

    Dr. Jack Taylor
    Joseph S. Bruno Professor of Retailing