Management Option
Jack Drexler, Management Option Coordinator and Department Chair of Management, Marketing, and International Business, 541-737-2727 or drexler@bus.oregonstate.edu
Management Advisory Council
Overview
The Management Option helps prepare students for careers as managers and supervisors in goods-producing and service enterprises. Students obtain a solid grounding in management of systems, personnel, and quality. The integrative focus of the Management Option also provides excellent preparation for graduate-level studies in law, urban and regional planning, public services administration, and health care administration.
Management is the process of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling that encompasses human, material, and financial resources in an organizational environment. A management option means that you have learned the concepts of getting things done through others within organizations.
Curriculum
Your freshman through junior years will be largely confined completing the OSU baccalaureate core and the Business Core (see Requirements.) These courses are required of all Business students. Management option courses start your senior year.
Enrichment Activities
Participating in management-specific "enrichment" activities enables you to expand your understanding and build your skills beyond the classroom. The Management Club hosts a variety of functions that put you face-to-face with potential employers and in the company of fellow management option students and faculty. Being active in Management Club and other College of Business club activities helps increase the opportunities of finding a job after graduation.
