ACCOUNTING

A degree in accounting offers students the chance to move beyond merely tracking a company’s income and assets. With this program, you can learn how to budget and manage money for a business, ensure that a firm is spending money wisely by making sound investments, file taxes for a corporation, and ultimately understand how a business operates and sustains itself financially.

In addition to core business courses, accounting majors take classes in financial and managerial accounting, tax accounting, and accounting information systems.

Student Experiences at the U

• Beta Alpha Psi, a national accounting honor society
• Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), the Association of Accountants and Financial Professionals in Business
• Travel to cities across the country on faculty-led networking trips
• Accounting workshops or internships

Career Opportunities

With additional education or certification, an accounting degree will allow you to work in the areas of public accounting or corporate accounting.

• Auditors
• Tax accountants
• Consultants
• Budget analysis
• Financial management and reporting
• Internal audits
• Financial management
• Business transaction tracking
• Merger and acquisition strategy
• Information systems development
• Tax strategy
• Wealth management

Scholarships

Department Scholarships

Degrees offered

Accounting BA/BS
School of Accounting

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The undergraduate Entrepreneurship program prepares students to pursue and create business opportunities of all kinds. Students learn to follow trends, identify emerging opportunities, and pursue those possibilities through the creation of new products, services, and companies

Student Experiences at the U

The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute is an excellent resource for entrepreneurship students, offering skills workshops, networking events, help in launching startups, and housing options.

Students can also get involved by participating in a variety to opportunities:

• Clubs (such as Get Seeded, a funding program for proposed business ventures)
• Competitions (the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge)
• Completing an internship or study abroad program

Career Opportunities

Students with a background in entrepreneurship are equipped with the tools to start their own business ventures and companies, such as non-profits, for-profits, and hybrid businesses.

• Sales and management
• Marketing and marketing management
• Financial advising and consulting
• Public relations
• Recruiter
• Teacher
• Business analyst or advisor
• Research and development specialist

Degrees offered 

Entrepreneurship BS
Entrepreneurship Minor
Entrepreneurship Certificate

Department of Entrepreneurship

Finance

Finance deals with the concepts of time, money, risk, how they are interrelated, and how money is budgeted and spent. Finance students learn how to assign value to projects, companies and securities. They also study how individuals and businesses can efficiently allocate financial resources, invest, and raise capital.

With these skills, Finance majors can determine wise investment strategies, value stock options, and help companies and individuals manage their money. A critical component of a finance students’ education is meaningful, real-world opportunities, balanced by worthwhile classroom experiences.

In addition to the traditional major, students may pursue an emphasis in Advanced Financial Analysis, an honors-level program that provides students with a deeper foundation in finance and accounting, supplemented by additional technical competence in financial modeling and coding as applied to finance problems.

Business Scholars Program is an honors-level introduction to the business disciplines.

Business Scholars have the unique opportunity to travel regionally and internationally to meet and interact with business leaders from the companies that they study. Business Scholars can take Honors and Business Scholars specific courses, ensuring smaller class sizes and a more personalized experience.

Student Experiences at the U

• Student Investment Fund (which allows students to practice managing stock portfolios)
• Finance Club (a club for students interested in pursuing careers in finance)
• University Venture Fund
• Week on Wall Street (a trip to Wall Street for a group of selected Finance majors)

Career Opportunities

• corporate finance as a treasurer, analyst, or controller.
• investment or commercial bankers.
• broker
• portfolio manager
• financial planner
• real estate appraiser
• consultant
• tax examiner
• insurance broker

Scholarships

Department Scholarships

Degrees offered

Finance BA/BS
Department of Finance

Management

The Management major is designed to give students the skills needed to lead companies in all phases of development, from startup to maturity, and through challenging situations. Students develop competence in human resource management, quantitative and statistical decision making, production/operations management, and general management.

Student Experiences at the U

• internships
• undergraduate research project
• study abroad program
• Alpha Kappa Psi (the oldest and largest professional business fraternity)
• Management Club
• Business Scholars Program

Career Opportunities

• Administration
• Advertising
• Finance
• HR
• Healthcare
• Purchasing
• Public relations
• Sales
• Business analysts
• Dance program directors
• Forensics examiners
• Real estate agents

Scholarships

Department Scholarships

Degrees Offered

Management BA/BS
Department of Management

Marketing

Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers. Through strategic thinking, business acumen, and carefully-designed communications, marketing specialists ultimately help organizations identify and satisfy customer needs.

As a marketing major at the University of Utah, you will study diverse topics such as market research, consumer behavior, advertising, sales and business development, and international marketing, with one goal in mind: learning how to build brands that people want.

Students also have the option of choosing the Professional Selling & Business Development emphasis (BA/BS) for the program.

Student Experiences at the U

• Internship
• undergraduate research project
• study abroad program
• American Marketing Association (AMA)
• Eccles Marketing Society
• AdThing Utah

Career Opportunities

• Advertising
• Promotions
• Market research
• Public relations
• Manufacturing
• Sales management
• Technology analysis
• Software engineering
• Real estate
• Digital marketing
• Entrepreneurship, freelancing, and consulting

Scholarships

Department Scholarships

Degrees Offered

Marketing BA/BS
Department of Marketing

Operations and Supply Chain

Operations and Supply Chain helps optimize a firm’s supplier or customer network to create an outstanding product or service. Leading companies rely on operations and supply chain professionals to create high quality products and services while minimizing wastes to reduce costs. They are ultimately responsible for running the business efficiently and profitably. It takes over 200 companies in numerous countries and on several continents to make a high quality smart phone. Similarly, to treat a patient it often takes a complex network of providers including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, insurance companies, and other entities. These networks are called supply chains. Students gain knowledge of databases, quality management and six sigma as well as data visualization. This knowledge can provide the foundation of knowledge for gaining certification in project management and six sigma after graduation.

Interested in a career that can take you across the globe in virtually any industry? Operations management and supply chain jobs are fast-paced and exciting with competitive salaries. The Operations & Supply Chain major at the David Eccles School of Business gives students the world-class training they need to succeed in the business world. The curriculum provides opportunities for study abroad in Pforzheim, Germany as well as an experiential learning capstone experience, OIS 5800.

Student Experiences at the U

Students who do not complete a study abroad program can still get network and get involved on campus:

• • OM (Operations Management) Club
  • Business Scholars
  • Opportunity Scholars
  • BLinc (Business Leaders Incorporated)
  • Women in Business

Career Opportunities

Upon graduation, you will be prepared to enter a number of careers in business and operations management:

• Product manager
• Supply chain manager
• Six Sigma specialist
• Forecasting analyst
• Inventory manager

You may also find employment as a supply chain or operations analyst. Remain in the U.S. and work at a local or national firm, or use the skills gained from a study abroad experience to work in a business overseas. With additional education and experience, students can also become entrepreneurs, COOs (Chief Operating Officers), or CEOs.

Degrees Offered

Operations and Supply Chain BS
Department of Operations and Supply Chain

Information Systems

Technology is vital to the success of every business, and companies need professionals who can use technology to meet strategic business objectives. With a degree in Information Systems, you will create efficient information management within organizations, establishing processes that are most helpful to users. As technology continues to evolve, it remains an essential component of business, and professionals in Information Systems are needed to support it. The University of Utah’s degree in Information Systems will give students the tools to manage the technical direction of business, solve technological issues, and implement new technological advances to enrich business operations.

Student Experiences at the U

If you’re looking for extracurricular activities to give you experience and help you pad your resume, consider participating in the following:

• TEK Club (information systems club)
• Business Scholars Club
• IS Hackathon
• Game Day Analytics Challenge

Students may also complete degree enrichment activities, such as an undergraduate research project, internship, or learning abroad experience.

Career Opportunities

Information Systems graduates work in a variety of fields:

• Cyber security
• Business intelligence
• Analytics
• Project management
• Network administration
• Database administration
• Systems architecture

Other career opportunities include the following:

• Computer forensics
• Mobile application development
• Software analysis
• Data modeling

Using the networking skills and experience gained from extracurricular activities like the TEK club, you can also freelance or join a firm as a consultant, become a teacher or professor (after additional education), or pursue technical writing.

Scholarships

Department Scholarships

Degrees Offered

Information Systems BA/BS
Department of Information Systems

Quantitative Analysis of Markets and Organizations (QAMO)

Student Experiences at the U

Career Opportunities

Scholarships

Department Scholarships

Degrees Offered

QAMO BS
Department of QAMO

Business Administration

The Business Administration degree provides students with a strong knowledge base across the fundamental disciplines of business: accounting, finance, management, marketing, operations and supply chain, and information systems. At the David Eccles School of Business, students learn to manage technology and identify entrepreneurial opportunities, learning the social implications of doing global business and developing the values and ethics to succeed and prosper.

Student Experiences at the U

Career Opportunities

• Management training and leadership development
• Business analysis
• Marketing
• Brand management
• Sales
• Customer service
• Government
• Non-profit
• Health services

• HR specialist
• Creditor
• Lender
• Entrepreneur

Scholarships

Department Scholarships

Degrees Offered

Business Administration BA/BS
Department of Business Administration