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EIU's Management Minor sharpens the managerial and leadership skills business majors need for greater career opportunities. Students build core knowledge in HR and organizational behavior, then choose electives in compensation, conflict management, international business, and consulting — developing real skills to evaluate legal, cultural, and global pressures and think strategically in any business context.

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Degree Level
Minor
Delivery
In Person
Credit Hours
12 Total, 12 in Major
Careers
Executives, Officers, General, Managers
Management students at EIU

Why Study Management at EIU?

  • Open to all Business majors, this minor builds directly on the foundation you're already earning.
  • The program explicitly develops your ability to evaluate legal, cultural, and global pressures as they apply to real organizations.
  • Choose from areas like conflict management, international business policy, innovation management, or consulting to sharpen the specific leadership skills you want.
  • The program explicitly aims to enhance your behavioral and people skills and your ability to apply management theories and analytics — not vague, undefined "leadership development."
  • The minor is positioned specifically to expand your options and prepare you for advancement into management roles.
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"I chose to attend EIU because it is the most affordable state school. With the increase in the cost of education, EIU has maintained that they will keep their education affordable. I also enjoy the short distance it is from family and the small class sizes."
Nicholas Macaluso
Class of 2026, Management
Nicholas Macaluso, Management at EIU

Hands-On Experience

  • This elective has students apply consulting-style problem-solving to real organizational challenges, not just study consulting as a concept.
  • Students work through the real interpersonal and political dynamics that play out inside actual organizations.
  • This course applies real leadership and decision-making scenarios, pushing students to practice judgment calls managers actually face.
  • Students build the hands-on communication skills — reports, presentations, difficult conversations — that managers use every day on the job.
  • Students study how management decisions play out in real global operations, not just domestic case studies.
Hands-On Experience, Management students at EIU

What You'll Learn

The management minor provides School of Business majors with a program of study that focuses on developing behavioral and people skills and organizational knowledge and understanding to act as competent business professionals with managerial and leadership responsibility and potential. The program is for Business majors (e.g.

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$206,420
Median Salary 4 Years After Graduation

Career Outcomes

  • Chief Executives
  • Chief Sustainability Officers
  • General & Operations Managers
  • Management Analysts
  • Operations Research Analysts
  • Data Scientists
  • Business Intelligence Analysts
  • Clinical Data Managers
  • Business Teachers, Postsecondary

Career Insights

Job Outlook ★ Bright Outlook Openings · Grow Rapidly
Preparation Needed Considerable (4/5)
Personality Fit Enterprising

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Ayse Costello
Professor
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Lumpkin Hall 4025
217-581-8524
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David Boggs
Professor of Management
djboggs@eiu.edu
3014
217-581-2627
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Billy Panther
Head of Panther Pride
Old Main
217-581-2223
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