Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Business Administration
Dubuque, USA
BA
DURATION
4 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2026
TUITION FEES
USD 33,500 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* annual full-time rate
Key Summary
The majors in Business at Loras have become some of the most popular and in-demand programs available. Although the largest academic division on campus, we strive to personalize your experience to your chosen emphasis.
Student Experience
Each year, Loras College business students complete internships in a wide array of organizations to prepare them for their job search after graduation. Students can complete internships for academic credit or non-credit. Many students choose to complete both.
Student Involvement Opportunities
Loras has more than 100 co-curricular and involvement opportunities including organizations relating to academic majors, national honorary and professional societies, student and residence hall government, interest groups, and recreational interests.
- Accounting Club provides opportunities for leadership positions, networking with accounting professionals, and learning more about the accounting profession.
- Several business-related clubs and organizations.
- VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) is an opportunity for accounting seniors to volunteer to prepare income tax returns for low-income and elderly clients free of charge; the program is in partnership with the IRS.
Business Students get valuable internship experience
Internships are a win-win: good for the students and good for the organizations. Students integrate what they have studied with the work they are assigned. Often, successful completion of an internship leads to an offer of full-time employment when the student graduates.
The Loras College Center for Experiential Learning offers:
- Workshops with topics including internships, how to use Google in searching, and why and how to network
- Networking Events—students often develop meaningful relationships that may lead to internships
- Career Fairs each fall have led to internships
- Individual meetings showing students how to search and how to network through LinkedIn, a strong tool to connect with alumni by joining Loras alumni groups
Students are taught how to seek out internships as those are the skills they will need the rest of their lives to find full-time positions. Business faculty communicate internship openings to students from a variety of sources, including directly from companies, recruiting websites, or from our Center for Experiential Learning. Students may also find internship positions through career fairs or the Iowa College Recruiting Network. Faculty serve as supervisors for the internships when students choose to earn academic credit.
Leadership, Experience, Resource, and Networking Opportunities
Leadership, experience, resource, and networking opportunities can be pursued in a number of student organizations, including:
- Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Advertising and Marketing Association (AMA)
- Phi Beta Lambda (PBL)
- Financial Management Association (FMA)
- Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)
- Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Students benefit from a program that offers an impressive list of classes from which to choose, along with a large number of internships and opportunities to test your knowledge against “real world” situations before graduation.
- Over 4,500 alums have graduated with an accounting/business major since the program’s founding in 1945.
- All students take a common core of classes in addition to required courses for their specific major. This core allows them to broaden their business knowledge, as well as helping focus their interest in a specific area.
- Committed to graduating students within 4 years, all students majoring in the division will have an advisor who cares about their academic progress and future career success.
- Loras provides an active division-run internship program, offering local, regional, national and international opportunities during the traditional academic year as well as summers.
- The placement rate for graduates annually exceeds 90%.
Student Learning Outcomes – Business Administration
- Apply general human resource management principles to business organizational practice
- Apply ethical perspectives to human resource situations
- Analyze the relationship between personality styles and the organizational settings that allow for effective leadership
- Demonstrate effective teamwork skills in group settings
- Apply decision-making strategies to real-world business problems
“What can you do with a Business Administration degree?”
As a Business Administration major, your career could take off into one of these professional areas:
- Purchasing Manager
- Insurance Underwriter
- Human Resource Manager
- Financial Analyst
- Sales Manager
- Investment Broker
- Market Researcher
- Operations Manager
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