Discover your path to success with the Lally School of Management at RPI. This page is designed for current undergraduate students to explore degree options, minors, dual majors, and accelerated BS+MS and BS+MBA programs. Each pathway emphasizes hands-on learning, data-driven decision-making, and career readiness, all core strengths of Lally’s business education.
Lally offers several STEM-designated and business-focused majors designed to help you develop leadership, strategic thinking, and analytical skills. Each major prepares you for diverse career paths and graduate study opportunities.
- Business Analytics (STEM): Harness data to make smarter business decisions with courses in statistics, programming, and visualization.
- Business and Management: Build a broad understanding of accounting, finance, marketing, leadership, and operations.
- Finance, Markets, and Emerging Technologies (STEM): Study global finance and explore how emerging technologies are reshaping financial systems.
- Marketing and Advanced Computing (STEM): Combine marketing strategy with AI tools, analytics, and programming to power digital campaigns.
- Information Technology & Web Science (STEM): Interdisciplinary computing degree often paired with business coursework or a dual major.
Complement your major with a Lally business minor. Minors are open to all Rensselaer students and help you build career-ready skills in entrepreneurship, finance, management, and marketing.
- Entrepreneurship: Learn how to launch and scale ventures, from ideation to funding.
- Finance: Strengthen your understanding of investments, valuation, and corporate finance.
- Management: Develop leadership, organizational, and strategy skills.
- Marketing: Explore consumer behavior, branding, and digital marketing analytics.
Dual majors let you combine business with another field of study. Common pairings include Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Communications. Most students complete dual majors in eight semesters with careful planning.
- Earn a single degree with two majors listed on your transcript.
- Complete all requirements for both programs with approved course overlaps.
- Coordinate with both departments and advisors to maintain progress.
Accelerated programs allow motivated students to earn both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in an efficient timeframe. These options are ideal for students looking to deepen technical expertise or gain leadership skills before entering the workforce.
- BS+MS: Focus on advanced analytics, finance, or entrepreneurship. Graduate-level courses may count toward both degrees.
- BS+MBA: Build broad management and leadership skills for consulting, product, or executive roles.
- Accelerated Co-Terminal MBA or MS: Add value and an important new perspective to your bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or the humanities.
Schedule a meeting with an academic advisor to discuss your academic goals, degree options, and next steps. Advisors help you design a course plan and ensure you’re meeting graduation requirements.
- Schedule an advising appointment through the Lally School website.
- Review the RPI Undergraduate Catalog and DegreeWorks audit regularly.
Frequently Asked Questions
Meet with advising by sophomore year to review eligibility and deadlines for undergraduate programs. For Masters level programs, meeting with you advisor as soon as you are thinking of a masters degrees will assist in scheduling your courses.
Some programs allow limited double-counted credits, confirm with your advisor.
Yes, with early planning to align timelines, schedules and course requirements.
