Learn more about the Business Administration program and its concentrations.
A Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Siena Heights University will open many types of employment opportunities for you. With Siena Heights University’s emphasis on communication and ethics, you may confidently choose to start a new career or take your work in the business field to the next level.
Through its curriculum and advising, BBA faculty offer business majors the opportunity to become proficient, engaged citizens. This is imperative in today’s business climate. Approximately 60% of the program’s core courses are based in case methodology. Case study sharpens analytical ability and heightens student ability to think and reason rigorously.
Other focuses in the BBA program include communication, creativity, and integrative thinking. We want our students to be able to express their creativity through writing, verbal, and visual means, have the skills to detect interrelationships among component parts and assess their importance in creating solutions.
Concentrations
BBA majors at Siena Heights can also earn a concentration in one or more of the following areas:
- Accounting
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- International Business
- Management
- Marketing
Meet the Business Administration faculty members.
Associate Professor of Accountingdbaker@sienaheights.edu517-264-7628 
Associate Professor of Accountinglbearden@sienaheights.edu517-264-7689 
Associate Professor of Managementwblacker@sienaheights.edu517-264-7634 
Associate Professor of Marketingcblancha@sienaheights.edu517-264-7621 
Associate Professor of Accountinglcampbel@sienaheights.edu517-264-7859 
Assistant Professor of Business Managementmripper@sienaheights.edu517-264-7622 
Associate Professor of Marketingsterrany@sienaheights.edu517-264-7625 
Assistant Professor of Economicsomovchan@sienaheights.edu517-264-7626 Learn about the career opportunities you can have with a degree in Business Administration.
When you graduate with a BBA degree from Siena Heights University you are prepared for the following business careers:
Learn about internship opportunities in the Business Administration program.
About Internships
The heart of the internship is the success the intern achieves in encountering and solving real-life problems in a professional workplace setting.
The SHU business internship program provides the following benefits:
- Help to provide students with relevant work experience, which is key to securing a job upon graduation.
- While not required, internship credit can be applied to the major requirements.
- Paid internships help defray educational costs for the student.
- Students develop a digital portfolio of their internship project to share with prospective employers.
Our students have interned at numerous companies, including:
- Anderson Corp.
- Croswell Opera House
- Enterprise
- First Federal Bank
- Greenstone Farm Credit
- Kapnick Insurance
- Kraft Foods
- NBC Toledo Channel 24
- The Palace of Auburn Hills
- Promedica Health Systems
- WLEN Radio
- Wacker Silicones
Learn more about the Business Management Association (BMA) campus club.
The Business Management Association (BMA) is a campus club that welcomes students interested in business (from accounting to entrepreneurship, from international studies to marketing). The club serves three major purposes: education, service, and social enrichment.
Volunteering as a club officer provides students the additional opportunity to develop, strengthen and apply leadership skills.
Bachelor of Business Administration
A Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Siena Heights University will open many types of employment opportunities for you. BBA grads pursue careers in advertising, banking, small business ownership, manufacturing and retailing. You will master the skills employers are seeking. With Siena Heights University’s emphasis on 21st century skills and ethics, you may confidently choose to start a new career or take your work in the business field to the next level.
Business majors at Siena Heights will also receive a concentration in one or more of the following four areas:
ACCOUNTING
Students in the accounting concentration sharpen their skills on the basics and then move on to advanced skills like analysis and interpretation of accounting information for decision-making purposes. Among the many topic areas for accounting students are accounting, auditing and taxation.
FINANCE
The emphasis in the finance concentration is on money and markets. You will learn the tools necessary to analyze corporate statements and the best investment strategies for individuals and businesses.
MANAGEMENT
Management students focus on the issues of leadership, labor relations, organizational behavior, teamwork and entrepreneurship.
MARKETING
Students interested in marketing want to enter career fields like product management, market research, and e-commerce.