Jones College of Business Undergraduate Advising
Business Majors
The Jones College of Business Advising Center advises for the following majors.
Choose a major to access the upper-division advising forms.
Accounting is the practice of and knowledge about methods for recording transactions, keeping financial records, and performing internal audits. It can also include reporting and analyzing financial information, reporting those findings to management, and advising on taxation matters.
Upper Division Forms (advising sheets) – Choose the catalog year you are following.
Business Administration is a major for students who wish to pursue a general business career but do not wish to select a specific business area. The student will leave the program equipped with managerial, communication, and decision‐making skills.
Upper Division Forms (advising sheets) – Choose the catalog year you are following.
Entrepreneurship is for students who want to launch or grow a business and those interested in entrepreneurial work in corporations. This major prepares for these challenges and focuses on developing and managing this venture. Students learn key aspects of Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship, including organizing ideas, requirements, and capabilities for starting and operating a new venture. The required internship provides valuable hands‐on experience.
Upper Division Forms (advising sheets)
The Bachelor of Science in Commerce integrates solid business knowledge across multiple business disciplines. With the help of an advisor, students choose business electives to meet specialized career goals. This major is ideal for students who have a career and need a degree for advancement in the workplace. Due to the specialized nature of this program, currently enrolled students must meet with a Jones College advisor before this major can be declared.
Cybersecurity is an ever-growing and high-demand field with excellent earning potential and numerous opportunities across Tennessee and beyond.
Your courses will include computer architecture, programming, systems analysis, networking, cryptography, security system design, risk assessment, policy analysis, and more. This comprehensive curriculum helps fill the growing gap in the workforce for skilled managers to maintain the security of data, systems, and infrastructure.
As a Cybersecurity Management major, you can learn to assess security needs, recommend safeguard solutions, and manage the implementation and maintenance of security devices, systems, and procedures—the expertise you’ll need to meet the future security needs of businesses and other organizations.
Economics studies how society allocates scarce resources. It is comprised of two parts: microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics studies individual firms and consumers and models their decisions in various markets and other institutional settings. Macroeconomics examines national income, growth, unemployment, and prices that result from the interaction of microeconomic agents.
Upper Division Forms (advising sheets) – Choose the catalog year you are following.
The Bachelor of Science in Economics is awarded in the College of Liberal Arts. Faculty and advising are housed in the Jones College. It shares the required ECON courses of its BBA counterpart without requiring its business core. Any student electing the BS alternative should consult the department chair to develop an acceptable degree program. Students who plan to pursue a Master’s and PhD in Economics are highly encouraged to speak with economics faculty early in their educational career.
Upper Division Forms (advising sheets) – Choose the catalog year you are following.
Finance is a field that focuses on the financial sectors of modern economies. Students are provided with the analytical foundations and an introduction to financial processes and institutions.
Upper Division Forms (advising sheets) – Choose the catalog year you are following.
Real Estate is a field that focuses on the principles of real property ownership utilization and transfer, mortgage financing, brokerage, management, valuation, subdividing, and legislation.
Upper Division Forms (advising sheets) – Choose the catalog year you are following.
Information Systems is where business and technology meet. Students in this major are exposed to opportunities ranging from analytics to creating and managing web applications to designing and implementing network environments.
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Management organizes work efforts for both for-profit and not‐for-profit organizations. Managers lead people and teams to meet the organization’s goals. They develop strategies, make decisions, build consensus, organize and evaluate work, and manage change.
Upper Division Forms (advising sheets) – Choose the catalog year you are following.
This concentration provides students with HRM-focused knowledge and skills in the areas identified by the profession as most critical, such as compensation and benefits, diversity and inclusion, employee and labor relations, employment law, human resource information systems (HRIS) and measurement of HR, planning and talent management, recruitment and selection, and training and development.
Upper Division Forms (advising sheets)
Professional Selling is a concentration in the Marketing major that prepares students for careers in sales. Courses in this program assist students in developing skills in excellent oral and written communication, relationship development, self-confidence, and critical thinking and problem-solving.
Upper Division Forms (advising sheets)
Risk management identifies and analyzes loss exposures and takes steps to minimize the financial impact of the risks they impose. Insurance is a risk‐transfer mechanism that ensures full or partial financial compensation for the loss or damage caused by events beyond the control of the insured party.
Upper Division Forms (advising sheets) – Choose the catalog year you are following.
Supply Chain Management is simply the Management of the Chain of Supplies from suppliers to customers. SCM activities include Planning, Sourcing, Making, Delivering, and Returning. Everything you wear, eat or drink, sit on or in, read, throw, shoot, kick, and buy or sell comes to you courtesy of Supply Chains.
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