Carlson School of Management Majors

The Majors listed below are under review.  Current students will complete requirements as listed.  Students who entered the program as freshmen in Fall 2007, and all students who entered the program Fall 2008 will be held to new major requirements.  Details on the new majors will be available in summer 2008.


*Minor is Available

Accounting*
The system of recording and summarizing business and financial transactions and analyzing, verifying, and reporting the results.


Actuarial Science *
Actuarial Science applies mathematics to insurance problems. Practicing actuaries calculate insurance premiums, policy and loss reserves (liability) and estimate costs of future losses.


Entrepreneurial Management *
For the person interested in successfully organizing, owning, managing, and assuming the risks of a business (Entrepreneurship) or successfully assisting organizations in developing new business opportunities (Intrepreneurship).


Finance *
The system that includes the circulation of money, the granting of credit, the making of investments, and the provision of banking facilities.


General Management - Self Designed
The General Management - Self Designed major is intended for students who wish to develop an area of expertise outside of the major programs offered by the Carlson School. Students who pursue this major should have a particular career goal or objective in mind that can be best addressed through a self-designed program of study.


Human Resources and Industrial Relations *
A division of an organization concerned with personnel including staffing, training, development, compensation, benefits and conflict and dispute resolution.


International Business
The system of maintaining relationships with two or more nations. Being active, known, or reaching beyond national boundaries.


Management Information Systems *
The system of conceptualizing, prescribing, developing, and delivering leading-edge information system applications that support business processes.


Marketing *
The process or technique of promoting, selling, and distributing a product or service. An aggregate of functions involved in moving goods from producer to consumer.


Operations Management *
Operations Management is responsible for supplying the product of service of the organization

Public / Nonprofit Management
Offered in collaboration with the Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs.


Risk Management and Insurance*
The business of insuring persons or property. One party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by a specified contingency or peril.


Supply Chain Management
Manages the flow of goods, information, and services in order to deliver maximum value to the consumer while minimizing the costs of the flow.