BUSINESS MAJORS
Accounting, Business Administration, Economics Students in a business-related field at LVC learn more than just the fundamentals. They explore the humanities, social sciences, and sciences while learning how to communicate effectively in both speech and writing. These perspectives and skills enhance the power—and flexibility—of their degree. Students learn from a faculty of scholar-practitioners with years of experience in research, consulting, government, entrepreneurship, and international studies. Because professors stress the importance of combining classroom learning with practical skills, more than two-thirds of undergraduates gain hands-on internship experience. Study abroad is also strongly encouraged. LVC’s four-week program in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and semester-long programs in London, England, and Hamilton, New Zealand, are particularly suited to students in the department. Regardless of major, departmental course work focuses on building proficiencies and knowledge in key areas, such as information technology, ethics, professionalism, and teamwork, while stressing the development of critical thinking, creativity, and communications skills—attributes that leading CEOs are looking for.
ACCOUNTING The major prepares students for careers in public accounting, government, industry, or finance. Majors gain an excellent foundation for professional certification as a CPA or CMA. The curriculum includes a comprehensive background in business fundamentals that prepares students for business careers and graduate school.
The Department of Business and Economics, in association with the Career Center and Job Center website, offers a number of seminars aimed at helping students gain a competitive edge in their job search. Seminars cover such topics as business attire, living and working as a professional, networking skills, and writing résumés and preparing for interviews.
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Students prepare for a variety of management positions in the commercial, government, or nonprofit sectors. The curriculum provides a solid grounding in business fundamentals—including management, marketing, finance, operations, economics, accounting, and international business. Majors seeking more in-depth study may take electives that support the study of human resource/labor relations, international relations, marketing/public relations, or organizational psychology.
ECONOMICS The major is designed to prepare students for careers in government or the private sector or for graduate school in business, economics, or law. Students study the ways in which societies produce,
distribute, and consume goods and services and explore the macroeconomic consequences of economic decisions. The curriculum includes courses in such areas as economic game theory, public policy economics, international economics, environmental and natural resource economics, and econometrics.
ACCREDITATION LVC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs to offer the following business degrees: Bachelor of Science in Accounting, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Bachelor of Science in Health Care Management, and Bachelor of Arts in Economics, as well as Associate degrees in Accounting and Business Administration.
AFTER LVC Graduates have gone on to work with a diverse group of employers, from the Big Five accounting firms like PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte, to manufacturing and consumer products companies, to small businesses. Many alumni have successfully launched their own entrepreneurial ventures. 15