Business

Student makes a professional presentation to classmates at Bryn Athyn College

The Business Major

The business major gives you the skills and foundation to manage, strategize, and operate enterprises. With courses ranging from finance, ethics, accounting, business law, marketing, and management, students develop the ability to lead and succeed in a variety of contexts. Our intimate class settings ensure that each student builds the skills to do well not only for their companies, but for all of society.

Workplaces need professionals who can pivot on a dime. Our cross-disciplinary approach develops the broad perspective needed to adapt and innovate in a dynamic modern economy. Graduates emerge with the confidence to navigate even the most bureaucratic of business structures.

Major-specific skills that will prepare you for grad school:

  • Critical Thinking
  • Data Analysis
  • Presentation
  • Primary Research

Transferable skills that will prepare you for a variety of careers:

  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Leadership

Business at Bryn Athyn

Your fellow business classmates are just as enthusiastic and curious as you are. Throughout the program, you will consider a wide variety of perspectives, both practical and theoretical. Our emphasis on ethics paired with New Church philosophy produces hard-working, honest graduates who employers know they can trust.

You will gain a broad base of knowledge from our core curriculum while also diving into specifics in areas like marketing, logistics, and sports management. Your enthusiastic professors will work with you personally to uncover your specific interests, and give you the connections to pursue them. You can also support your major by minoring in data science, computer science, communication, or any of our minor programs.

To gain the hands-on experience so many companies and collaborators seek, you’ll participate in an internship, which you can start as early as the summer after your freshman year. Analyze finances, plan estates, market companies, or sell real estate–our New Church network is eager to provide a variety of opportunities to Bryn Athyn students. The rigor of our classes and our dedicated professors prepare students to take on the corporate world, law school, and business school with ease. In fact, Bryn Athyn students can count their credits toward Duquesne University’s Business School, allowing you to complete your MBA faster.

Trajectories

Here's what graduates of Bryn Athyn's business program have done with their degrees:

Fields:

  • Insurance
  • Finance
  • Law
  • Logistics
  • Entrepreneurship

Workplaces:

  • Vanguard
  • Ernst & Young
  • Chubb
  • The Odom Corporation
  • Gallagher
  • American Heritage Credit Union
  • Bronco Transportation Services, LLC

Master's Degree Programs for Business Student

Through a partnership with Duquesne University's Palumbo-Donahue School of Business, Bryn Athyn student can apply for preferred conditional admission to one of the following:

  • a Master of Business Administration - Sustainable Business Practices
  • a professional MBA
  • a Master of Science in Analytics and Information Management
  • a Master of Science in Supply Chain Management

Learn more about this Master's Degree Opportunity

Our Faculty

Ethan King

Ethan King
Program Head of Business
Assistant Professor in Business

Kristin King

Kristin King
Professor Emerita in English, Business, and Writing 

Elizabeth Rogers

Elizabeth Hollister
Business Department Chair
Assistant Professor of Business

Angela Rose

Angela Rose
Instructor in Education and Math

Neil Simonetti

Neil Simonetti
Computer Science and Mathematics Department Chair
Professor of Business, Computer Science, and Mathematics
Director of the Interdisciplinary Program

 

Jim Tepper
Lecturer in Business

 

Christopher Waltrich
Lecturer in Business