UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM:
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a Concentration in Economics
The undergraduate program in business administration is grounded in a broad-gauged education in the liberal arts and sciences designed to prepare students for responsible judgment in a wide variety of cultural and social settings. Economics provides a strong foundation for careers in government, banking and finance, cost analysis, health policy planning, human resources, insurance, international trade, labor relations, and real estate. The undergraduate program provides a solid basis for graduate work in many fields including economics, finance, and law.
The primary purpose of the undergraduate business administration program at Monmouth University is to prepare students for successful careers through a strong liberal-arts and an effective contemporary business education.
The program provides an education that helps qualify its graduates for positions of leadership in private and public sectors. Curricula are developed, taught, and regularly updated by a faculty with strong academic and business experience. They stress the development of critical thinking, sophisticated communication skills, and a flexible managerial perspective.
Who Should Consider a Concentration in Economics?
Students who possess strong mathematical and analytical skills should consider a concentration in economics. Economics students learn to use fundamental economic concepts and methods to analyze the impact of economic forces on decisions made by individuals and institutions domestically and globally. Course work focuses on micro, macro, labor, and ecological economics as well as growth, development, globalization, and forecasting.
The proximity of Monmouth University to corporate headquarters, investment banks, the federal government, and Wall Street offers unique internship and career opportunities in New Jersey, New York, and Washington, D.C.
A Faculty of Prolific Scholars
Economics faculty research, much of which has direct bearing on the undergraduate and graduate courses of study, includes applied microeconomics, credit cards and consumer debt, ecological economics, financial education, gender in economic development, globalization (outsourcing, information technology), government tax and spending policies, history of economic thought, labor economics, and poverty and income distribution.
The Economics faculty has published in well-known journals in the discipline including Cambridge Journal of Economics, Eastern Economic Journal, History of Political Economy, International Journal of Manpower, Journal of Applied Business and Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Economic Methodology, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Income Distribution, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Review of Political Economy, and World Development.
The Monmouth Advantage
Monmouth University is the right place for the student who needs to get answers directly from the faculty and hopes to interact one-on-one with researchers and practitioners in the field. With a total enrollment, including graduate students, of approximately 6,000, Monmouth is small enough to encourage close student-faculty interaction but is large enough to offer the diversity and resources of most state universities. The University offers strong internship and career opportunities in New Jersey and New York, home to the headquarters of major investment firms and corporations.
The Leon Hess Business School at Monmouth University is accredited by AACSB—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the premier accrediting organization for business schools worldwide.
