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Business Administration

Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and one of the most successful (and controversial) business people in the world said, “If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.” But what are those ingredients? And what’s the recipe for success in the world of business?

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Future Career Paths

As a McDaniel Business major, you’ll have access to a team of professors and a whole catalog of courses and extracurricular opportunities that will help you answer these questions. And after four years of focus and exploration, you’ll be prepared to enter the business world with confidence and a sense of purpose—whether you want to start your own company, work in a well-established one, or head off to continue your studies by pursuing a master’s degree.

McDaniel Business graduates are ready for both graduate school and employment opportunities. McDaniel Business graduates go on to find success in many fields and industries of all stripes: in banking, insurance, manufacturing; or on to professional careers in law, business, accounting, and economics; or in government work at different types of agencies and departments (like the IRS, NSA, or the Department of Labor).

Futures Of All Types

Students have recently found employment at companies like:

  • T. Rowe Price
  • Amazon
  • Baltimore Ravens
  • Flying Dog Brewery
  • Wells Fargo Financial
  • Scientific Games Corporation
  • Verizon Communications, Inc.

Graduate School Partnerships

McDaniel undergraduate students who decide to pursue these new degree options would apply in their junior year and would complete two graduate courses during their senior year.

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School 4+1 Program Provides Option to earn Joint Degree

Through a collaboration with Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, McDaniel students have the opportunity to earn a combined bachelor’s and master’s degree from both institutions.

Photo courtesy of Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

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Duquesne’s Palumbo-Donahue School of Business Preferred Admission to Four Master’s Degree Programs

McDaniel College and Duquesne University have formed a new partnership that gives McDaniel undergraduate students in the Economics and Business Administration department, as well as eligible alumni, preferred admission to four master’s degree programs at Duquesne’s Palumbo-Donahue School of Business.

Photo courtesy of Duquesne University Palumbo-Donahue School of Business.

Distinctive Courses

BUA 2211 - Entrepreneurship

Learn how to make your mark a you study entrepreneurship, the process of combining resources to produce new goods or services. Critical success factors and common failures will be highlighted. The creation of an effective business plan in emphasized. Several case studies and classroom discussions with successful small business owners and entrepreneurs will supplement the required texts and lecture contents.

BUA 3307 - Investments

How does money make money? We’ll explore that question in this study of personal investments: an understanding of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and derivatives; the mechanisms of the security markets; participation in the markets; sources and uses of investment information; market and company analysis; yield, valuation, and ratios; and portfolio management.

BUA 2216 - Small Business Management

Ready to start and run your own business? You’re in the right place. The course begins by addressing macro issues, such as social responsibility, ethics, and strategic planning. The course then provides an in-depth examination of the essential facets of managing a small enterprise, such as the business plan, accounting records and financial statements, small business finance, the legal environment, marketing, pricing, promotion, human resources, and operations management.

ENC 1111 - Make It, Market It, Sell It

This is it.  Unbutton your creativity and get footloose in this course where you’ll create a brand, market the products you’ll make, and the products we’ll supply you. In other words, we’ll negotiate the danger zone that is web entrepreneurship. In this class, you’ll get a theme or a business idea to market online (e.g., we might supply you with an old dated product like the LaserBeam Wristwatch or movies featuring songs by Kenny Loggins).  You’ll put into practice theory from art and rhetoric on persuasion and communication as we help you make a product, a web presence, and negotiate the various aspects of small online side businesses. You’ll vlog, blog, tweet, post, design, promote, and advertise, and possibly, make money.

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Special Opportunities

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PUT YOUR IDEAS TO THE TEST The Entrepreneurship Competition

Working in teams over the course of a semester, the Entrepreneurship Competition invites students from any major to develop business plans and a pitch for an innovative solution to a a real world problem. Entrepreneur Boot Camp, a five-week program, leads up to the competition and is designed to develop student entrepreneurial ideas. On the evening of the Entrepreneurship Competition, pitches are judged by a panel of real-life entrepreneurs and teams get the chance to win start-up cash with their pitches.

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Pre-Law Advising

Many McDaniel College undergraduates aspire to a career in law or civil service that makes law school a natural next step. Our close proximity to Washington D.C. provides dynamic and distinctive law-related internships, and our superior pre-law advising program ensures that you're ready for the next step. 

McDaniel College is committed to helping you pursue a legal career in three key ways: deciding if law school is the right choice for you, getting into law school,and gaining the skills to succeed in law school.

The McDaniel Commitment in Action

The McDaniel Commitment—a series of opportunities guaranteed to all students—provides enhanced mentoring and coaching, and ensures every undergraduate student completes at least two meaningful experiential learning opportunities.

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Study Abroad

Valerie Lamb ’18 at her summer internship at the U.S. Mint.

Internships

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Research

Experiential Learning Senior Capstone Business, Accounting, Economics

Carly Weetman, Business and Economics major, and Andrew Roberts, Economics and Accounting major, talk about their senior capstone — their study on how the move from a Communist economy to a more privatized one affected the Tiehua artwork industry in China, as the culmination of their training at McDaniel.

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The View from the Top of the Hill Alumna secures spot on Wall Street two years after graduation Outstanding Outcomes

When Julia Wainwright arrived on Wall Street little more than two years after graduating from McDaniel, one of the first to congratulate her was her mentor, Rich Klitzberg ’63.

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Related Programs

Accounting Economics Marketing Data Analytics, M.S. (100% Online or Hybrid Low Residency) Entrepreneurship
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