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Pursue your specific business interests
Develop a program of study based on your specific business career interests with guidance from a faculty advisor. Students pursuing this major might pair business with information sciences and technology, communications, health care, or other coursework to pursue studies focused on their unique interests and plans.
This level of customization allows students to prepare for a variety of business administration careers, including opening and running a small business.
Individualized Business career opportunities
The Individualized Business major offers a breadth of unique specializations for a successful administrative career.
Business analyst
Prepare to pursue careers in applying business analytics techniques to implement appropriate decision-making outcomes using data for companies.
Entrepreneur
Discover how to pursue entrepreneurial careers with emphasis on idea generation, opportunity analysis, new product creation, and business plan development.
Finance administration
Learn how to become a finance leader with course emphasis on wealth management, tax planning, risk management, and financial analysis.
Health care manager
Become a specialist in the health services sector with emphasis on the financial and administrative aspects of health care enterprises.
Information technology administrator
Build a knowledge of business technology with courses that blend technical knowledge and administrative skill to land a career in every industry, including consulting, business, government, defense, entertainment, and medicine.
Project manager
Learn the skills to develop new projects, manage timelines, and coordinate procurement and project delivery systems. From developing a new product to constructing a new building, the list of efforts that organizations must plan, manage, and deliver (ideally on time and under budget) is nearly endless.
Continuing your education
In addition, earning your Business degree at Penn State can lead to a master's or doctoral business-related degree, such as a master’s degree in business administration (MBA).
What to expect in the Individualized Business major option
Penn State’s Bachelor of Science in Business is a professionally-oriented business degree program that combines the core business disciplines of management, marketing, finance, and supply chain management, with applied study in a practical setting. This Business degree offers a range of “options” or areas of focus, such as this individualized offering.
Through the choice of an 18-credit individualized concentration, you will specialize in a business sector that is unique to their interests through interdisciplinary coursework and internship experiences.
Graduating with a Penn State Business degree offers you endless career options, while the individualized concentration uniquely positions you to have a competitive edge.
Gain Individualized Business experience before you graduate
Our Individualized Business major is designed for you to complete an internship in your senior year that facilitates the application of your classroom learning in a field setting.
This opportunity is designed to provide students with firsthand experience with both challenges and rewards of the business professional in our local communities, a design that sets the major apart from other business administration programs in the region.
Business majors have completed internships in a variety of businesses and organizations related to:
- Amusement and entertainment
- Business associations
- Chambers of commerce
- Community organizations
- Manufacturing
- Technology
- Transportation and business logistics
