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Accounting (Certificate)

Diploma –56 credits, approximately 5 quarters

OBJECTIVES
The objective of the Accounting diploma is to provide fundamental knowledge of accounting principles, methods, and procedures. It prepares students for entry level employment opportunities in bookkeeping and accounting. Graduates are equipped with the skills to prepare and analyze financial reports.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
This program prepares students for employment opportunities in general accounting and bookkeeping, credit, payroll, and inventory control. Graduates have found employment as bookkeepers, payroll clerks, accounts payable/receivable clerks, receptionists-bookkeepers, general clerks, tellers, and others.

Business Admin Assistant (Certificate)

If you are thinking about beginning a career in business administration, in less than one-year of study, you could have the essential knowledge, technical skills, and work habits that are required for an entry-level position and the foundation for career advancement.

Our Business Administrative Assistant diploma program will prepare you to enter the business world as a competent administrative assistant, which includes support positions in the fast-growing finance, health care, and service industries.

As a program graduate, empowered with the fundamentals of business communications, qualitative and quantitative processes, and the expectations of today's administrative professional, you'll be ready to support the applied work of business owners, managers, and directors. Plus, you have the option to complete this program online, enabling you to become a part of the virtual community in addition to having the opportunity to earn your diploma while balancing work and personal responsibilities.

Current Business Administrative Assistant employment opportunities include:

• Entry-level office administrator
• Receptionist
• Customer service associate
• Data entry/word processor positions

Critical support staff of small business owners, managers, supervisors, or department directors of public, private or government businesses. Advance your job opportunities and career goals by building your technical skill sets and increasing your knowledge of what makes businesses work! 

Accounting & Tax Specialist (Associate's)

Associate in Applied Science Degrees - 6 quarters and 7 quarters

• Accounting and Tax Specialist AAS Degree - as little as one and three quarter years.
• Offers the academic training needed for the new Registered Accounting Practitioner credential
• Contains all the courses in the management accounting program plus Tax I,Tax II,Business Law, and a capstone review course
• Provides the skills needed for eventual self-employment as well as for careers in the industry

All courses from the shorter programs below transfer into this AAS Degree

• Management Accounting AAS Degree
• Accounting Diploma

Business Administration (Associate's)

Our program introduces you to the process of management including the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling functions of running a business.

You will find yourself pursuing career opportunities such as:

• Management trainee
• Sales representative
• Customer service

Advancement opportunities would include: Supervisor

• Administrator
•  Manager
• Small business owner

Cosmetology Business (Associate's)

The Cosmetology Business Program will provide students with a business foundation that will extend their applied emphasis in cosmetology by preparing graduates for further advancement toward independent ownership, potential entry-level managerial and other beauty industry-related career opportunities. The required general education coursework will establish critical thinking and problem solving skills, which will be enhanced throughout the business specialization coursework.

You must have successfully completed a licensed cosmetology program and hold a current MN cosmetologist license to be eligible for acceptance in to our Cosmetology Business AAS Degree Program.

Criminal Justice (Associates)

The AAS in CJ program will provide students with an understanding of the theories underlying the 3 main components of the CJ system: law enforcement; judicial systems; and correctional modalities within the context of social and political sciences. Methods and applications of these three areas will be emphasized throughout the coursework along with the intersections of their functions. The required general education coursework will further develop the students' critical thinking and problem solving skills, which will be enhanced throughout their technical coursework. Program graduates will be prepared for entry-level positions in a range of criminal justice positions including corrections officers, private security, protective services, and private investigator positions. They will also have the foundation to pursue further study in social science or legal coursework.

Information Technology (Associate's)

This degree provides students with fundamental knowledge in the principles of computers including software development, database, networking and security. Students will also learn basic business principles. They select to specialize in either computer networking or software development. Students will provide evidence of competencies in communications, social sciences, humanities and fine arts. Analytical and inferential reasoning and computational skills as well as the ability to learn on one's own are also taught. This degree will prepare students for an entry level position in network support or software development.

Management Accounting (Associate's)

Associate in Applied Science Degrees - 6 quarters and 7 quarters

Management Accounting AAS Degree - as little as one and a half years Provides training that goes beyond the basic requirements for entry-level positions.

Contains courses in:

• Accounting
• Computer information systems
• Communications
• Liberal arts classes for a broad education

Usually leads to positions with opportunities for growth and advancement

Sales and Marketing Management (Associate's)

This program provides graduates with the fundamental knowledge to pursue a sales and marketing career in today's complex business environment. With the skill set acquired from learning about consumer buying behavior, market research, the selling process, and other related topics, graduates can prosper in such careers as a marketing manager, sales representative, promotions manager, customer service representative and advertising assistant.

This Associate in Applied Science program provides a balance of specialized education and credentials that develop students' skills required for effective communications, teamwork and critical thinking.

Transportation Business (Associate's)

The Transportation Business Program will provide students with a complete transportation business foundation that will extend their self-selected applied emphasis in either truck driving or heavy equipment operations; by preparing graduates for further advancement toward potential managerial and other transportation-related career opportunities. The required general education coursework will establish critical thinking and problem solving skills, which will be enhanced throughout the transportation business specialization coursework.

You must have successfully completed a licensed truck driving program and hold a current CDL, Class A+ license or heavy equipment operator's program and hold a current certificate to be eligible for acceptance in the Transportation Business AAS Degree Program.

Accounting (Bachelor's)

Bachelor's Degree - 12 Quarters

• Bachelor of Science Degree - as little as 3 years
• Opens doors to careers with management-level responsibilities

Contains courses in:

• Accounting
• Computer information systems
• Communications

Includes business classes such as: Operations management

• Business ethics
• Marketing
• Finance
• Investing

Business Administration (Bachelor's)

Our program introduces you to the process of management including the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling functions of running a business.

You will find yourself pursuing career opportunities such as:

• Management trainee
• Sales representative
• Customer service

Advancement opportunities would include:

• Supervisor
• Administrator
• Manager
• Small business owner

Business Management (Bachelor's)

The overall objective of the Bachelor of Science in Business Management starts with in-depth training for individuals seeking employment in the field of business, introducing students to the process of management including the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling functions of running a business. Students will pursue career opportunities in emphasis areas with an ability to provide leadership in their areas of expertise.

Health Care Management (Bachelor's)

The objective of the Bachelor of Science in Health Care Management is to prepare students with the knowledge, technical skills and work habits required for entry level positions in health care administration. Its curriculum will have prepared the graduates with the knowledge and skills for entry-level management positions including, human resources, financial, data collection and analysis, planning, marketing, and other administrative/management functions within public, private and government health care industries. Students will provide evidence of competencies in communication, social sciences, humanities and fine arts, analytical and inferential reasoning and computational skills as well as the ability to learn on one's own.

Information Technology (Bachelor's)

Bachelor's Degree Program - 12 Quarters

This program was designed to educate students in technology and business. Students will learn how to manage technology and effectively communicate with others in a business environment.

The core curriculum provides a strong foundation of the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful in any IT profession. Along with the technical requirements of the degree, students will take business and other general classes that are valuable in all professional careers.

Masters in Business Administration (MBA)

Our MBA degree program is designed to provide graduate education for students in the managerial leadership principles of business for the twenty-first century—entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship, the ability to turn information into ideas, and ideas into substantive information, fosters the creation of self-generative professional development, which is an essential strategy for all employees.

Our program will prepare students for middle and upper management positions in business and industry, as well as in small business development and ownership, and increase its graduates' abilities to interpret, add to, and generate research in order to develop and apply effective business solutions.

The virtual community is now a reality; business leaders are expected to recognize the blurred distinction between knowledge and skills in order to effectively manage people with high-level skills that will allow them to cope with rapid changes within conventional and virtual milieus. Leaders must encourage both customers and employees to participate in evidenced-based decision making, thus, providing everyone with the opportunity to identify and pursue their own needs and goals.

The primary objective of our MBA program is to foster innovation, a critical attribute in a world where the only constant is change. The program's curriculum addresses today's managerial challenges, which are