Business Administration
Business Administration prepares students for leadership roles in management and marketing in domestic and international business and public and nonprofit organizations. Majors learn to use business and financial principles and know-how to succeed as managers, human resource or marketing officers, or entrepreneurs.
Degrees Offered
Business Administration, B.S. Business Management, M.S. (online)
Business Concentrations
After acceptance into the program, students will be required to choose and complete a 15-hour concentration in one of the following areas:
- Management
- Marketing
- International business
4+1 Combined pathway
4+1 Combined pathway program allows enrolled business administration students to begin work on an M.S. in business management while completing bachelor’s degree.
Our Faculty
Our faculty is committed to teaching and learning as its primary responsibility, with a secondary emphasis on applied scholarship and instructional development. Both faculty and students engage in outreach activities intended to promote economic development in Western New York.
Skills You'll Gain
- Leadership and communication skills
- Business principles, economics, and accounting
- Marketing principles and practice
- Identify, evaluate and use emerging technologies to evaluate business opportunities
- Human resource and management principles and practices
- Effective skills for organizational communication and decision-making
- Business strategies and entrepreneurship
- Identify, evaluate and use emerging technologies to evaluate business opportunities
Research and Internships
The Undergraduate Research Office
Student Research and Creativity Conference
Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships
Scholarships
Buffalo State awards hundreds of scholarships based upon academic merit, financial need, field of study, or a combination of criteria.
Kratus Entrepreneurship Scholarship
Michael T. Morrisey Memorial Scholarship
60%
Internship students hired by host companies
100%
Graduates employed within one year of graduation
1:1
Individualized advisement, guidance, and research supervision
Career Paths and Employment
Career Paths
Business, finance, and management industries Job titles most often acquired by business administration graduates:
- Account Manager
- Administrative Assistant
- Banker
- Bill Collector
- Broker
- Business Plan Writer
- Contracts Manager
- Event Planner
- Food Service Manager
- Fundraising Specialist
- Human Resources Specialist
- Insurance Sales Agent
- Investment Broker
- Marketing Director
- Office Manager
- Plant Manager
- Production Manager
- Product Manager
- Real Estate, Property, or Housing Association Manager
- Purchasing Agent/Manager
- Real Estate Agent/Broker/Manager
- Consultant
- Retail Manager
Employment
Companies hiring recent business administration graduates:
- Buffalo Sabres
- Citibank
- City of Buffalo
- Buffalo Niagara Enterprise
- Delaware North
- Ingram Micro
- M&T Bank
- New Era Cap
- Niagara Mohawk
- Praxair
- Rich Products
- Scottsdale Securities
- UPS
- Wegmans
Advising
- All students are assigned a professional adviser.
- Junior and senior business students are assigned a faculty adviser in the Business Department.
Academic Support
- Buffalo State's Academic Center for Excellence offers tutoring and writing support.
- Business Department faculty members provide individual tutoring for accounting.
- Career and Professional Education (CAPE)
CAPE's staff assist with career exploration and decision-making, job search preparation, finding jobs and internships, and selecting and applying to graduate schools.
