Earn Your BS in Business and Management
Ready to lead in today’s fast-changing business world? At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lally School of Management, the Bachelor’s Degree in Business and Management equips you with the skills, experience, and credentials to thrive across industries. With a focus on technology, analytics, and leadership, this on-campus program prepares you to manage people, processes, and innovation in any business environment.
Located in Troy, New York, Lally offers a dynamic, in-person learning experience at one of the nation’s top STEM-focused universities.
A bachelor’s degree in business management provides a strong foundation in leadership, strategy, analytics, and decision-making. It’s ideal for students who want a broad but powerful business education, tailored to their goals.
At Lally, you’ll learn in small, supportive classes taught by faculty who are experts in management, entrepreneurship, finance, and emerging technologies.
Highlights include:
- STEM-designated business degree
- Real-world consulting projects and case competitions
- Electives in entrepreneurship, analytics, finance, supply chain, and more
- Pathways to pursue accelerated master’s degrees (MBA or M.S.)
- Connections to a global alumni network and industry partners
This bachelor’s degree in business management offers a balance of core business knowledge and customizable electives. Core Areas:
- Accounting and Financial Reporting
- Marketing Principles
- Organizational Behavior and Leadership
- Supply Chain and Operations Management
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Strategic and International Management
- Business Law and Ethics
- 124 credit hours
- Typically completed in 4 years
- In-person learning experience on RPI’s Troy, NY campus
- Optional accelerated MBA or M.S. in Business Analytics or Supply Chain Management
Want to go further? You can also add a minor, second major, or pursue research and entrepreneurship opportunities.
Choose to specialize in one or more concentrations to gain knowledge in specific areas of business.
- The entrepreneurship concentration focuses on the process through which innovative ideas are converted to new products and businesses. These courses will prepare students to think creatively, solve business problems, and convert ideas into solutions for the marketplace. Students also gain planning and project management skills that are useful in start-ups and established firms alike.
- The finance concentration provides a strong foundation in the concepts of risk and returns, asset allocation, portfolio management, bond and stock valuation, investment decision-making, capital budgeting, derivatives, and risk management. This concentration offers an excellent opportunity for students to prepare for the Chartered Financial Analyst exam.
- The management information systems concentration focuses on the use of information technology for value creation in new and established firms. It provides students with the perspectives and skills to understand the role of IT in organizations, identify opportunities for IT-enabled business innovations, and design, develop, and deliver the technology infrastructures that enable firms to effectively use IT for value creation.
- The marketing concentration provides students with an understanding of what customers want and how to effectively offer products and services to meet this demand. Marketing activities, including product research and concept testing, are explored. Students learn how businesses need marketing to reach and serve customers in order to successfully achieve their goals or mission.
- The supply chain management concentration focuses on the design and management of supply chains in the manufacturing and service industries. This concentration equips students with the perspectives and skills to design supply chains, develop strategies to optimize supply chain operations, and identify opportunities for deploying IT to create effective demand fulfillment capabilities in firms.
Graduates of this program are prepared for diverse leadership roles and have gone on to careers in consulting, finance, marketing, project management, operations, and startups.
Sample Job Titles:
- Business Analyst
- Marketing Manager
- Financial Analyst
- Project Coordinator
- Operations Manager
- Management Consultant
- Entrepreneur
RPI’s Business and Management bachelor’s program reports median earnings of $99,713 four years after completion. Among reported bachelor’s programs in the same federal management category, RPI ranks first in New York State and in the top 3 percent nationwide. These historical earnings figures are separate from starting salaries. Explore Lally’s outcomes(add Link) page for sources and additional results.
FAQs - Business and Management, B.S.
The program typically takes four years of full-time study to complete.
The program typically takes four years of full-time study to complete.
You can pursue careers in marketing, finance, consulting, operations, or launch your own business. It’s also excellent preparation for graduate school.
No, Lally School degrees are not available online. All of our programs are offered in person on the Troy, NY campus.
Yes! Many Lally students combine business with another area of interest, such as economics, computer science, sustainability, or data analytics.
Federal data show median earnings of $99,713 four years after completion for RPI’s Business and Management bachelor’s program. For average reported starting salaries and the source details behind these figures, visit Lally’s outcomes page.
You’ll have access to personalized career advising, résumé reviews, mock interviews, employer networking events, and RPI’s Center for Career and Professional Development.
