As an entrepreneurship major at North Central, you will learn how to build, promote and manage your own business. You will study standard business topics such as accounting, management, and marketing; but you will also explore concepts like product or service development, start-up funding, purchasing and distribution issues, and client base development. When studying for a business entrepreneurship degree at North Central College, you will acquire the skills necessary to start a business from the ground up or learn how to apply your creativity and energy to make existing businesses more productive. An entrepreneurship degree can open up many doors for you. Students that go through these courses will learn a variety of skills on how to create their own business. With the right education and hands-on experience, students will be ready to pursue their passions and be prepared to succeed post-graduation. If you are looking to learn more about our college entrepreneurship programs, view our complete guide below or talk with one of our admissions counselors today.

The unusual breadth and depth of our bachelor of marketing degree program mean you can spend your North Central years either focusing on a single aspect of marketing or exploring its many facets and specializations to develop the marketing skills needed to become a successful marketer. Whatever business major you choose, we know you won’t master the field by simply reading about it. That’s why we enrich each marketing class with real-world projects, like creating marketing campaigns and looking at marketing analytics to conduct research for partner business professionals within the Chicago area community.

North Central integrates traditional business courses with additional coursework to understand "what makes people tick-" and breed future HR professionals to know how to handle employee relations. Our human resource program teaches students to identify and leverage best HR practices and best fit to attract, retain, motivate and meet business goals as a professional Human Resources manager. Drawing out the best and creating a productive work environment.

Now more than ever, we can’t tackle complex management challenges with business solutions alone. North Central faculty understand that. Our business management program uses innovative teaching techniques, sometimes drawing from fields as diverse as mythology and neuroscience to illuminate business concepts and show you how viewing problems from multiple perspectives can lead to creative solutions. Students will learn more about getting things done efficiently and effectively in a business environment, whatever the challenge and wherever your career path takes you— whether it be healthcare management, sports management, technical or governmental areas.

A business economics major focuses on business applications with an eye toward working for corporations, the government, or in the financial sector—gathering or analyzing information and data on markets and business cycles. You’ll be grounded in the business core of accounting, statistics, management, marketing, finance, and strategy but also given the opportunity to augment that with applications of economic concepts to other industries such as international markets, the public sector, or health care, for example. At North Central College, we believe it's important to prepare our students with as many resources as possible when receiving an education. To help do that, we provide our students with hands-on experience through real-world applications so they can feel confident and prepared when entering the workforce. We're one of the few business economics colleges where a business student is able to work closely with a well-respected faculty member.

Our business degree program will teach you critical thinking and problem-solving skills as well as equip you with real-life experience. An international business major will also provide you with the proper education you need to succeed in this field as you do business abroad. Here you’ll cultivate the “sixth sense” required to do business in international markets—and that will make all the difference to your professional success. Of course, you’ll master core business practices, identify market trends, explore financial markets, and so on when enrolling in our international business bachelor's degree. But you’ll also develop an instinct for what’s appropriate in a given situation, for what’s being left unsaid, and for the ways different communication styles and customs can affect business transactions abroad. If you are looking for an international business school that offers hands-on experience in a challenging learning environment with other business professionals, then North Central College is the perfect place to start. We offer all of our business administration students challenging courses, trained faculty, and real-world experience that’s needed to succeed in an international relations career.

Our accounting degree will help you become professionally indispensable—one of those rare people who can analyze complex quantitative problems and explain them to everyone from CEOs to stockholders. You’ll learn to identify key economic issues affecting business strategy and interpret and prepare critical financial reports and analyses. Our professors also weave writing and presentation skills into every accounting course, so you’ll become a skilled communicator—and that will set you head and shoulders above your peers.

We’ve carefully balanced finance degree courses that develop practical career knowledge with a business core that creates a broad set of skills that employers value. With this business finance degree under your belt, you’ll be ready to hit the ground running whether you find yourself in the field of corporate finance, investments, wealth management, financial services, financial management, law, or government.