The Offutt School of Business

The Offutt School of Business is an undergraduate program built on tradition and focused on producing future-focused leaders.

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"I feel very prepared for postgrad life thanks to all the networking, mentorships, real-world experience and public speaking. I'm more confident and excited for my career."

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Learn more about the many areas of interest offered at the Offutt School of Business. Click on the programs listed below to view more details.

The accounting major prepares you for more than just a tax deadline. It can lead you to become a CFO for a private organization, a partner at a major public accounting firm, a nonprofit executive, a CEO or even an entrepreneur. Your focus will be in one of the following areas:

  • General Accountancy
  • Accounting and Finance
  • Public Accountancy

Through hands-on application, internships, job shadowing and volunteer opportunities, our accounting program will prepare you to become an ethical business leader.

From farm to finance and everything in between, you'll learn about agricultural business operations, develop a familiarity with commodities, discover analytical tools and work on agricultural finance skills. Graduates have become grain buyers, agricultural consultants, bankers, farmers and commodity traders. Your area of study will include:

  • Agricultural Business Operations
  • Commodities
  • Analytical Tools
  • Agricultural Finance Skills

You'll also develop a solid foundation of business principles, including accounting, management, marketing, finance and supply chain operations.

The computer science major focuses on areas like software engineering, operating systems and artificial intelligence. Graduates have gone on to become software engineers, data analysts, systems administrators, cyber security analysts, web or mobile application developers and database developers. You’ll focus on one of two concentrations: computing or data analytics.

  • The computing concentration focuses on areas like software engineering, operating systems and artificial intelligence.
  • A data analytics concentration focuses more on data mining, forecasting and statistical models.

You’ll participate in internship or work-study opportunities in software engineering, IT services, web development and more. There are also volunteer opportunities working for an area nonprofit and computer science or software engineering clubs.

You’ll learn business basics like accounting and finance to help solidify your educational foundation, as well as how global markets function. Graduates have become economic consultants for Fortune 500 companies, members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, lobbyists and have even gone to work for the United Nations. Each summer, students can participate in an undergraduate research program in experimental economics.

A finance major can take you in any number of directions, including corporate finance, commercial banking, investment banking, financial planning, accounting, private equity, hedge funds, insurance and more. This program offers access to a variety of other industry tools to help you go beyond the textbooks.

  • Take classes in the Jim Parke Finance Lab and use cutting-edge technology to apply finance theory to real-world problems.
  • See finance in action through the Scheel Investment Fund, a $130,000 fund managed entirely by finance students.
  • Do market research and make investment decisions for the fund, allowing you to see how your skills can have an impact. 

To start, you’ll learn a business foundation and take classes in human resources management, accounting, marketing and more. These courses will give you the business competencies you need to succeed in the healthcare field. From there, you’ll enter the healthcare program and learn specialized knowledge. You’ll have the choice to focus on one or more specialized concentrations based on where you want your career to go. Our concentrations include:

  • Healthcare Administration
  • Healthcare Financial Management
  • Healthcare Leadership
  • Long-Term Care Administration

This program combines classroom study and an internship experience in a healthcare facility, enabling you to go beyond the classroom and apply what you’ve learned to an actual organization. You can also take part in extracurricular activities to hone your major, such as the Student Healthcare Management Association or our Healthcare Advisory Board.

Students who love languages and business are the perfect fit for this cross-disciplinary major. After graduation, you can plan to keep traveling and exploring the world. Alumni have lived abroad and managed global countries overseas. Others work for companies like Microsoft or IBM and assist with their international operation. And others have attended foreign universities to complete their graduate studies. In this very hands-on program, you’ll go beyond the textbook and experience new cultures firsthand.

  • Students study abroad at one of our partner universities and learn in-depth knowledge about global markets and international commerce.
  • Classes are designed to help you solve problems, work independently, think critically and prepare for new challenges and situations.
  • Our goal is to prepare you for global leadership.

MIS truly lies at the intersection of technology and business. Graduates are now video game developers, computer programmers, enterprise resource program managers, Federal Systems security analysts, business consultants and more. You’ll hone business competencies with skills like:

  • Database Familiarity
  • Programming Proficiency and Specialized Applications
  • Technical Computing Awareness in Systems Processes
  • Coding and Report Development

Management is important and has broad applications across a variety of industries and organization types. You can work at a for-profit corporation, government agency or a nonprofit. Graduates have gone on to run family businesses, specialized in human resources management and held leadership positions in a number of businesses of varying sizes. Our highly interactive and engaging courses will teach you core management skills like:

  • Strategic Planning
  • Goal Development
  • Organizational Structure
  • Leadership
  • Motivation of Employees
  • Assessing Performance

Each management class will allow you to demonstrate management and leadership within the classroom to help prepare you for real-world applications in your career.

The marketing concentration is very hands-on. You’ll combine strategic thinking, knowledge of your audience and creative bandwidth to help clients solve real-world problems. Graduates have become directors of marketing and sales, marketing strategists, market analysts, brand managers, directors of analytics and more. Some work at large organizations like Target Corp., 3M, IBM, Microsoft and Thompson Reuters. Others have joined marketing agencies or used their experience to launch their own startups. You will:      

  • Learn practical skills
  • Apply your classroom learnings through collaborative projects
  • Network with marketing professionals through internships

The mathematical finance major takes the study of mathematics and applies it to financial markets. Here you’ll learn a variety of mathematical and statistical concepts and how they apply to the financial industry. Graduates now hold positions in commodity trading, banking, business data and financial analysis.

You will study:

  • Financial Markets
  • Profitability
  • Algorithms and more

You’ll develop skills in finance and use the latest analytical tools to gain hands-on experience.

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