Business Administration, BS
CBU business administration majors learn through experience — starting their own micro-enterprises and consulting with major corporations.
Program Intro
CBU business administration majors learn in and out of the classroom, bridging academic concepts with real, working-world experience by interning at local and global businesses. Successful and experienced Christian professors teach courses that emphasize ethics, so students not only become competitive in the workforce but make a real difference in the world.
Why Study Business Administration at CBU?
Learn through experience
In one of the first business classes, BUS 101, students create a micro-enterprise and donate the profits to charity. Each spring, they have the chance to team up with fellow students to think of a start-up idea and compete in the Bob Goodrich Business Plan Competition to win cash prizes. Students can also take part in our mentoring program to be mentored by experienced business executives, or go off campus and study in our two-week summer program at Oxford University in England.
Join a legacy of alumni
Our alumni are executives at major national and international corporations, top government officials and successful entrepreneurs. Some of the companies that have hired our graduates for management positions include Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Shell Oil Corporation, Glaxo Smith Kline, Ford Motor Corporation, Toyota Motor Corporation, Fleetwood Enterprises, Bourns Incorporated, and Pepsi Cola. Read more about our alumni on the School of Business blog.
What You'll Learn
- Identify and describe key theories and practices in the areas of accounting, finance, marketing, management, economics, and business law.
- Apply knowledge and principles to business scenarios in the areas of accounting, finance, marketing, management, and economics.
- Use critical thinking to identify issues, collect and examine information, evaluate evidence, and draw conclusions.
- Use creative thinking to synthesize ideas and expertise, and take appropriate risk in developing innovative approaches to address business problems.
- Integrate knowledge and values from various disciplines and transfer skills to the workplace.
- Communicate in writing to a targeted audience with clarity, appropriate tone, proper mechanics, and relevant content.
- Orally present a message with confidence, effective voice inflection, clarity, and appropriate visual aids.
- Define problems, identify alternatives, and establish criteria to evaluate potential solutions.
- Utilize and/or formulate models to represent and solve business problems, compute results, and develop solutions.
- Demonstrate proficiency in utilizing business software solutions.
- Employ ethical guidelines in evaluating consequences and making choices.
- Identify and apply relevant biblical principles to critical business issues.
- Work effectively within groups.
- Describe and evaluate the fundamental principles and trends in economics, politics, business law, and culture, and apply them to business issues.
- Identify fundamental global factors and evaluate their impact on business issues.
Program Details
BUS 356: Business Communication
This course emphasizes individual, interpersonal and intercultural communication concepts in a business environment.
BUS 362: Social Entrepreneurship
This course defines and explores the growing practice of social entrepreneurship, focusing on how to apply business skills and knowledge in a way that creates social change.
BUS 475: Project and Team Management
This course focuses both on general management theory and specific project and team practices useful in the rapidly shifting environment of technology.
- Entrepreneurship Concentration
- Family Business Management Concentration
- Human Resources Management Concentration
- Logistics and Operations Concentrations
- Management Concentration
- Real Estate Management Concentration
- Social Entrepreneurship Concentration
- Strategic Business Analysis and Insights Concentration
Keanon Alderson, Ph.D.
Professor of Business
Director, CBU Family Business Center
Office Phone: 951-343-4768
E-mail: kalderson@calbaptist.edu
Office Location: School of Business Building Room 230
CBU’s Dr. Robert K. Jabs School of Business is accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).
Business is a great tool for anything. Nearly a year after graduating, I wrote and published my first novel about an impoverished village in the Philippines. As an artist, I constantly have to market myself.
Alyssa Mei Liu '15
My short tenure at CBU helped me become aware of what I truly love doing — helping people while working with businesses and finances. ... Shortly after graduating, I started working in Merrill Lynch's private wealth management division in L.A.
Wil Byers '11
Private Wealth Senior Relationship Manager, Merrill Lynch
Human Resource Management was the most interesting class I took in this program ... and I am now an HR assistant for Housemart, a company that oversees most of the Hawai'i branches for Ace Hardware, Daiso and Ben Franklin Crafts.
Tanner Kekoa Foster '23
HR Assistant, HouseMart (Hawaii)
We both believe that our education at CBU was much more than the books we read and the papers we wrote. We learned to support others through difficult times in life and how to prioritize those things in life that are important to us: faith, family and serving others.
Nathan and April Devlin '11 and '08
Realtors and Owners, Devlin Realty and Devlin Property Management
During my internship, I realized I was really gifted in brand marketing, and I learned how to do so with Christ at the center of my career. ... CBU gave me the tools and resources to thrive in today's ever-changing world while never losing sight of God.
Logan Altman '14
Chief Impact Officer, Doing Good Works
A couple of the biggest takeaways from my time at CBU are to always act with integrity and that success is not congruent to a large salary, or prestige, but serving God and delighting in Him.
Jeremy Peace '10
Business Systems Analyst
Career Possibilities
Business administration majors can apply their field of study to a variety of leadership and business roles. Some careers listed below may require further education.
- Sales Manager
- Client Support and Sales Specialist
- Business Analyst
- Operations Manager
- Program Manager
- Sales Manager
- Human Resources Specialist
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Next Steps
Join our community. At CBU, you’ll be challenged to become an individual whose skills, integrity, and sense of purpose glorify God and distinguish you in the world.