BUSINESS

The purpose of the Northern Arizona University Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Program is to provide excellent business management. If you are interested in a career in business – whether it is with a major firm, a regional or local employer, a start-up of your own or a career in the nonprofit or government sectors – you should think about the BBA program at Northern Arizona University. You will find that the BBA is a gateway to many of the world’s most successful employers across a wide variety of industries and disciplines.

This degree is a challenging program that will provide you with real world experience in today competitive work place. It will also prepare you for a rewarding career or create a solid path to a graduate degree. This program teaches future leaders how to compete globally in both the public and private sectors. Our students pursue careers and interests in finance, management, ethics, environmental sustainability, entrepreneurship and more. Please review the list of Specialized Accredited Programs for information on the program’s accreditation status.

By studying business and management principles, the Applied Business Management degree will help you develop quality skill sets and prepare you for a supervisory position.

Our goal in offering this degree is to provide you with a general knowledge of management, organizational, and policy issues and to advance your communication, computer, and quantitative skills. This degree also offers you the opportunity to complete a specialization that will broaden your career horizons, promote life-long learning, and enrich your life. Northern Arizona University offers this degree at selected campuses throughout Arizona.

Secure our global information sphere. Computing is essential to the global infrastructure, from banking and health to education and business. However, this infrastructure is highly vulnerable. Learn to identify and correct design flaws that lead to privacy breaches costing hundreds of billions of dollars. Acquire the technical skills you need to analyze cybersecurity abuses and produce safe systems through software and hardware development.

Through this program, you’ll build a solid foundation in the fundamentals of logistics and gain knowledge in global logistics, sustainable logistics, network analysis and design, and strategic logistics. You’ll engage in communication and collaboration through virtual teamwork and its facilitating technologies. Coursework in logistics is complemented by carefully selected business courses that include experiential assignments providing real-world application—including opportunities to incorporate actual issues in your own place of work.

Strengthen your ability to lead with vision, integrity, and adaptability in today’s workplace. This program blends strategic thinking with practical skills in communication, problem-solving, and organizational culture. Through applied coursework and experiential learning, you’ll practice managing change, guiding diverse teams, and making decisions that drive results. With options to focus on strategic, industrial, or transformational leadership, this degree opens pathways to supervisory and management roles across industries—or serves as a strong foundation for future professional growth.

Introduce, explore, and overcome resistance to change. Are you looking to enhance your career with an advanced degree? Through this Master of Organizational Leadership, you’ll develop graduate-level skills to support your professional goals while fortifying your knowledge in administration. Selecting an emphasis that reflects your interests and ambitions, you’ll apply your existing professional expertise to inform your path through this personalized course of study.

Engage with real-world problem-solving. Learn to evaluate, formulate, and apply solutions to complex business challenges based on financial information and strategic methods—preparing you for management and administrative roles in global business environments. In this program, you’ll develop your ability to build diverse teams and evaluate multicultural leadership in contemporary business environments, from in-person to virtual workplaces. Expanding your professional horizons, you’ll work alongside peers from different cultures and backgrounds to hone your administrative skills.

Prevent cyberattacks that cost billions. Develop specialized expertise in the dynamic field of cybersecurity to ensure the integrity of global infrastructure in civilian, military, and government settings. Through this rigorous graduate program, you’ll prepare to implement secure networks, software solutions, and databases while guarding against identity theft and enforcing appropriate access to privileged information. Expanding your academic knowledge through a variety of electives and research areas, you’ll customize your degree to fit your interests and professional requirements.

This certificate broadens students’ knowledge of the vocabulary, processes, and practices used in finance and accounting. The skills learned in this certificate are important for decision-makers. The certificate is useful for those interested in the accounting and finance professions as well as for managers in business, government agencies, and non-profit organizations.

Students with this certificate and with some additional training or education, in some cases, can work as interpreters/translators, bilingual customer support associates, tour guides, liaisons, researchers, law enforcement officers, caseworkers, human services specialists, technical writers/experts, foreign correspondents, cultural events coordinators, and international relations consultants.

Help clients plan secure financial futures. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the elements of financial planning, including investment, taxes, estate and retirement planning, and ethics. You’ll learn to calculate and recommend a savings plans to fit client needs—and you’ll develop an actual comprehensive financial plan for a client. Through your experiences in this program, you’ll appreciate the importance of upholding the rigorous standards required of an accountable professional.

For career professionals, the certificate prepares students for positions as logisticians and supply chain management. For others, the certificate provides a pathway to the Bachelor of Applied Science in Logistics and Supply Chain Management or the Bachelor of Business Administration with a Logistics and Supply Chain Management Emphasis and prepares students to be logisticians and supply chain managers.

Project management in business, government, non-governmental organizations, or pursuit of a graduate degree in business, law, or public administration.

Join the global industry of insurance. Develop your understanding of the concepts of risk and insurance. Find answers to questions: Why do we need insurance? What constitutes an intelligent insurance plan? What products are available in the insurance marketplace? You’ll explore the sources of risk and potential risk minimization strategies, with a primary focus on using risk management to create and sustain economic value.

The Strategic Leadership Certificate provides a new option for students to earn a certificate pursuant to completing their Strategic Leadership bachelor’s degree. With increasing competition, businesses both large and small are looking for individuals who not only understand how to manage, but how to lead people to serve customers well. Students who complete the Strategic Leadership certificate will possess the perspectives and skills to move within and between different industries, including service business, consulting practices, manufacturing, etc. This certificate fits well with organizations looking to improve their employees’ leadership mindset and can be offered as an onsite leadership academy. Improving the overall leadership IQ is essential to serving customers more effectively and can lead to more positive results. A look at the service sector: The shift in the U.S. economy away from goods-producing in favor of service-providing is expected to continue. Service-providing industries are anticipated to generate approximately 14.5 million new wage and salary jobs [by 2018]. Occupational Outlook Handbook, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Many organizations and business units now use business analytics to enhance their overall decision-making process.

The ability to analyze data to discover or identify previously unknown or missed opportunities is generating increased competitive advantages, driving efficiency, and promoting success in the world of business.

During the completion of the Business Analytics Graduate certificate, students will gain exposure to conceptual and hands-on tools to potentially fill the following organizational roles:

• Support the data-driven decision maker
• Interact with other employees to support and improve the process of data-driven decisions
• Provide higher-level decision makers with an enhanced understanding of business processes, performance, and outcomes to improve decisions through business data analysis
• Become the business decision maker using business analytics

Individuals may also consider applying for a graduate degree after completing these courses.

Empower leadership and advancement in tribal nations. Establish the foundational skills to empower indigenous communities through a range of applied coursework in indigenous studies—from law and policy to administration and human resource management. In this program, you will learn to foster healthy indigenous communities while embracing individual histories and traditions. Whether you are a student or a professional, this graduate certificate will expand your knowledge and expertise to support leadership, governance, and administration across native nations in the Southwest and beyond.