19 BSc Degree Programs in Aberdeen USA

NSU provides hands-on instruction combined with extensive in-classroom experience – including courses that take place at a local elementary school – to prepare you to become an effective and engaging elementary school teacher. In the elementary education program at Northern, you’ll learn to create lessons that actively involve your students, and how to best address a wide variety of learning styles. In our elementary education program, you'll receive a free iPad in your sophomore or junior year, and learn to use it and other technology tools effectively as a teacher. Through a partnership with the Aberdeen School District, several of your elementary education classes will take place at the new Mike Miller Elementary school, where each student has access to an iPad. To further enhance your educational technology skills, the Creation Lab at Northern's Williams Library offers open access to a 3D printer, 3Doodler Pen, Chromebooks, SMARTboard, and AppleTV.

With an accounting degree from Northern - available both online and on-campus - you'll be ready to become a key player helping organizations make the most impact with their resources.

NSU’s finance degree will equip you to be an indispensable part of the fascinating, challenging, changing world of business enterprise and the economy. In NSU’s finance program, you’ll learn to examine and understand the allocation of financial resources and capital and master the intricacies of portfolio management. Our small class sizes give you valuable opportunities to interact directly with professors, ask questions, and receive career advice.

It’s no longer enough to place ads, issue press releases, and update the company website – businesses need marketing specialists, and Northern's online marketing program will prepare you for current workforce demands. In NSU’s marketing program, offered online and on-campus, you’ll gain an edge by learning to stay on top of trends and technology; and how social media, search, video, and analytics work in the marketing mix.

NSU's biology program emphasizes hands-on activities and critical thinking to bring you to a better understanding of the study of life. You'll work one-on-one with caring, supportive faculty who encourage independent thinking skills that will prepare you to become a leader in your biological field. Most upper-level courses have no more than 25 students. Northern's biology faculty members teach their own labs - they'll get to know you as a person.

As a student in the NSU biochemistry program, you’ll receive the foundation and skills that will give you an edge and prepare you to succeed in in a host of well-established, continually evolving fields. Biochemistry merges the chemical, biological and physical sciences to explain biological processes on a molecular level, preparing you for immediate employment in medical, industrial, and government positions (scientists, lab technicians, research assistants, and chemists), a professional degree program (medical, dental, veterinary, pharmaceutical, genetic counseling, and other clinical or health professions), or a graduate degree program (biochemistry, chemistry, and biology).

As part of NSU's preprofessional programs, the study of chemistry provides excellent preparation for medical, dental, veterinary, or chiropractic school admission. It also prepares students to attend graduate school or work in the chemical industry. NSU chemistry students pursuing the chemistry major have the option of taking courses in analytical, biochemistry, organic, chemical education, environmental, and physical chemistry, or material science.

NSU’s management program offered online and on-campus is designed to ensure you’ll be well-equipped for the domestic and international marketplaces. A management degree from Northern will prepare you to lead, problem-solve, plan, evaluate, advise, and organize within the dynamic profession of business management.

Experience all aspects of business and tailor your studies to meet your personal career goals in the online business administration program at NSU. This flexible program - offered both online and on-campus - allows you to choose classes that personalize your studies to fit your needs and interests.

Northern’s environmental science program merges biological, physical, and information sciences with the study of environmental systems, issues, and solutions to major environmental problems. As an environmental science major at Northern, you'll study the fascinating interrelation between the natural sciences. You'll examine the relationship between living organisms and the ecosystems in which they live, addressing how humans affect the environment and how you can help reduce or even reverse negative impacts.

Unleash your potential and help meet the growing need for financial professionals with Northern's online banking and financial services degree. Offered on-campus and online, this program has the strong support of area professionals who provide internships and part-time work for our banking and financial services students; employ NSU graduates, and serve on the NSU Bank Advisory Board.

When you complete the Management Information Systems (MIS) program at NSU, you'll be at the forefront of information systems technology essential to all modern organizations. An MIS degree from Northern will give you a strong background in enterprise systems and robust technology skills.

Equip and enrich the artists of tomorrow with an art education degree from NSU. In our program, you’ll learn advanced visual design skills and use traditional studio media and tools, within the enriching context of a liberal arts curriculum. Graduates are prepared to enter the art field as professional K-12 teachers or to attend graduate school.

Preparing you for a rewarding career in K-12 physical education. As a student in our B.S.Ed. Physical Education program, you’ll learn scientific and fitness principles, pedagogy (the method and practice of teaching), and curriculum development from our diverse and experienced faculty.

NSU’s broad-based, balanced secondary education programs lay the groundwork to help you flourish as an outstanding educator and effective leader in today’s diverse classrooms. NSU secondary education graduates are in high demand in South Dakota schools and throughout the U.S. NSU provides hands-on, effective teacher preparation that includes extensive experience in actual secondary classrooms. A major area of study is required if you plan to apply to teach secondary school in South Dakota, and NSU is ready with options to suit your interests and career goals. Choose from the following education areas: art, biology, chemistry, language arts/English, history, mathematics, music, physical education, Spanish and special education.