Overview of Business Majors

Business students may choose from five academic majors at Eastern Illinois University:

1. Accountancy
2. Finance
3. Management
4. Management Information Systems
5. Marketing

One additional major – the B.S.B. in Business Administration – is an evening program offered only at Parkland College in Champaign.

To earn a bachelor’s degree in a business major, students must complete course work in three areas:

1. General education courses
   Students begin general education during their freshman year and complete most of the general education courses during their first two years.
2. Business core courses
   Students begin the business core by taking the Introductory Business Seminar in their freshman year and complete most of the business core during their sophomore and junior years.  Strategy and Policy, taken during the senior year, is the capstone business core course.
3. Major courses
   Students complete almost all of their major courses during their junior and senior years.

The School of Business offers a departmental honors program. For more information, visit: http://www.eiu.edu/~business/newsite/prospective/honorsprogram.php

Students who are interested in teaching business at the secondary level will major in Career and Technical Education (CTE) with an emphasis in Business Education, which is offered through the School of Technology. Visit the CTE web site for more information: http://www.eiu.edu/~tech/CTE/index.php.