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Earn an Organizational Management Degree at Baker University

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Develop and refine the management skills that today’s global business environment demands.

Earning a degree in organizational management from Baker University helps you understand the ins and outs of how business truly works. You’ll also discover how your newfound talents can have a positive, long-term impact on the people you work with—and the organization you work for.

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Whether you want to lead people, run a department of your own, or create effective company strategy, a business degree in organizational management will provide you with a foundation you can build on in any environment.

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Baker’s organizational management degree emphasizes a flexible curriculum to prepare you for a wide variety of career paths. While you learn, you’ll also develop adaptable business and organizational management skills:

Build effective interpersonal and group relationships.
Gain broad knowledge about all aspects of business—from sales to finance.
Resolve the complex management issues that arise as new ways of working emerge.
Guide and support changing workplaces as they embrace hybrid workforces and data-driven decision-making.

Along the way, our expert faculty are by your side to provide coaching and support based on their own management experiences.

This online degree in organizational management is designed by working professionals for those who want to earn a business degree in management—but don’t have lots of time.

Once your courses are complete, you’ll have an organizational management degree that leads to many types of careers.

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Organizational Management Degree Details

Learning doesn’t have to happen in a classroom. You can earn an online degree in organizational management at Baker University without relocating or leaving your full-time job.

Earn your organizational management degree online from anywhere.
Accelerated classes help you finish coursework quickly.
Take one course at a time.
Thrive in a well-known program designed for working professionals.
Earn your business degree in organizational management in as few as two years, depending on transfer credits.

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Organizational Management Degree Program Highlights

Choosing a major in management is a decision that will provide lasting value.

Here are just a few reasons to consider earning a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) with a major in organizational management at Baker University:

Rankings and affordability. Baker University is highly ranked for best online programs, offering the highest ROI in Kansas and the highest average salary among graduates of universities in Kansas.

Real-world relevancy. The lessons, skills, and tactics you learn in class translate directly to your workplace. Your colleagues will take note as you apply what you learn to your current role to positively affect morale, profit, and processes.

Ongoing support. From answering questions about returning to school to finalizing enrollment, your enrollment recruiter will be with you at every step. From there, you’ll have an academic advisor who guides you through degree completion planning, helps you manage course scheduling, and connects you to resources for success.

Lasting connections. Baker believes in the value of relationships. Create close connections with faculty who want to see you succeed as you earn an organizational management degree. Interact with active alumni who support our Bachelor of Business Administration program and can guide you to lucrative employment opportunities.

Individual attention. Even though you’re earning an online degree in organizational management, you’ll feel like part of a real-life community. Personalized attention from professors and career-advising professionals gives you the support you need.

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4+1 Bachelor’s to MBA Dual Degree Program

Students who earn an undergraduate business degree from Baker Online or College of Arts and Sciences in Baldwin City can earn their bachelor’s degree and MBA in five years. This program is open to current students and graduates.

Students participating in the 4+1 program must complete seven of the 10 required courses to earn their MBA. Academic advisors will design an academic plan for students that will allow them to complete the remaining 21 credit hours in one year.

What Can You Do With an Organizational Management Degree?

Build the authority, skills, and qualifications you need to set realistic and achievable goals, motivate team members, and make things happen.

Organizations of all kinds are looking for people with management skills who can also foster good relationships, take initiative, solve problems, and make smart decisions.

While you earn an online degree in organizational management at Baker, you’ll also build expertise in these areas:

Agility and strategy
Economics
Finance and accounting
Management and leadership
Marketing and business development
Project planning
Technology

Earning your BBA with a major in organizational management is the start of your new future. Pursue a position in a new field, get that promotion, or become a better manager.

Career Paths: Major in Organizational Management

Nearly every type of business is searching for leaders to help them meet objectives and build a competitive edge. Earning our online degree in organizational management can qualify you for positions in several fields, including these:

Advertising
Business development
Finance
Government
Health care
Human resources and talent acquisition
Marketing
Nonprofits
Project management
Entrepreneurship
Real estate
Retail
Sales or customer service

Exceptional Experiences: Business Degree in Organizational Management

We’ll help you make time. Your schedule may be full, but you can seamlessly blend our coursework with the commitments you already have. New classes start every six weeks, and online classes are held year-round.

Study with management experts. Baker’s business instructors have decades of real-world work experience. They’re successful business management professionals, spanning a wide range of fields. They’re not only professors, but also mentors. You’ll learn from their successes and failures as they challenge you to reflect on and critically examine what you learn.

Show the world you’re one of a kind. An organizational management degree from Baker stands out. This credential tells potential employers that you have what it takes to meet high standards—and the knowledge and skills to effect positive change.

Earn course credit in new ways. Baker’s Prior Learning and Assessment Center offers flexible, efficient ways to recognize the college-level learning you already have through work experience. We can help you find ways to earn credit in nontraditional ways, saving time and money.

Financial Support to Earn Your Organizational Management Degree

Baker University is highly ranked for its online degree in organizational management, offering the highest ROI in Kansas and the highest average salary among graduates of universities in Kansas. Find out what types of support are available to you as you earn your BBA in Organizational Management, making the degree even more affordable.

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Tuition & Fees

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Baker Is Military Friendly

Military Advanced Education named Baker University one of America’s Top Military-Friendly Colleges and Universities. Veterans and active-duty service members and their spouses may qualify for tuition discounts.

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Meet Our Students

“Throughout my time at Baker University, the professors have been great. I’ve actually been implementing a lot of the [course] material into my own business. If someone would’ve told me years ago that I would be a 4.0 student at a highly accredited university, I never would have believed it.”

—Craig | Bachelor of Business Administration, ’18

What You’ll Study: Online Degree in Organizational Management

Every Baker BBA course you take is online and lasts six weeks. All our classes are available year-round so you can fit them in.

These are just a few of the curriculum offerings that make up Baker’s Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in organizational management:

Entrepreneurship: As you examine the problems, opportunities, and methods of starting a new business or running a small business, you’ll learn how to apply forecasting, venture capital, trade finance, marketing, staffing, structuring, budgeting, and cost control to successfully develop and operate a new initiative.

Negotiation and Conflict Resolution: As you learn about the psychodynamics of conflict, you’ll also study the evolution and application of conflict resolution so you’re ready to constructively interact and lead.

Leading and Coaching Teams: Study models for leading and coaching teams and learn to apply these concepts to develop structures, processes, and strategies that create and maintain highly functioning teams.

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Related Programs at Baker University

In addition to organizational management, Baker University’s Bachelor of Business Administration program offers other majors you might be interested in:

Interdisciplinary studies major: Custom design your program and prepare for employment in nearly any field or start your own business.
Marketing major: Build knowledge and skills to plan, develop, deliver, and manage marketing strategies for a variety of businesses and organizations.

Course Work & Requirements

Admission Requirements

What We Need From You

All applicants: Completed application form

Applicants with fewer than 12 hours of transferable college credit: Official high school transcript or state-approved high school equivalency test is required. The high school GPA must be at least 2.3. The minimum score required for admission using an official state-approved high school equivalency test is based on the scoring standards in place at the time of testing.

Applicants with fewer than 12 transferrable college credits who were home-schooled:

A transcript or portfolio of their home-schooled experience
Transcripts of any completed high school work
An original ACT score report from Educational Testing Service with a composite score of 21 (or SAT score of 510)

Applicants with credit from other institutions: Official transcripts from all regionally accredited institutions of higher education previously attended with a combined GPA of at least 2.0 is required. NOTE: Course work attempted or completed at any postsecondary institution not disclosed at the time of application cannot later be submitted for potential transfer-in credit.

International applicants whose native language is not English:

A minimum TOEFL test score of 600 on the paper-based test, score of 250 on the computer-based test, or score of 100 on the internet-based test for international applicants, or a minimum IELTS score of 6.5
Additional requirements will apply

Required to enter the upper-level bachelor’s courses: A minimum of 48 hours of transferable credit including 3 credit hours of college-level English composition or equivalent course with a grade of C or better. Students admitted with fewer than 48 credit hours will begin with BK 110 and EN 102 and continue in the lower-level bachelor’s courses. Students admitted with 48 hours or more will begin with BK 110 and EN 305 and continue in the upper-level bachelor’s courses.

Enrollment Eligibility

Applicants who do not meet these minimum requirements will be considered for conditional or provisional admission on a case-by-case basis.

A student seeking to earn a bachelor’s degree must complete the required course of study as prescribed in the program. If a student has completed a comparable course within the past five years, he or she may request a course waiver for a maximum of two courses. The request to waive or transfer course work must be made in writing before beginning the bachelor’s program. The student’s schedule and financial aid packaging must be factored into the approval process for waived course work.

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Graduation Requirements

Successful completion of the specified upper-division courses (24 hours) and at least one of the majors (18 hours). A maximum of 6 hours of comparable course work may be transferred into the upper-division business or major courses with the exception of EN 305.
A cumulative business program GPA of at least 2.0
A cumulative GPA of at least 2.0.
Satisfaction of the 30 credit hours of general education requirements in arts and humanities, social science, and science. Typically, an earned Associate of Arts or Associate of Science degree from a regionally accredited institution will satisfy the requirement.
Satisfaction of the 9-credit-hour general education requirement in math, upper-college English, and computer science. This 9-hour requirement is fully met by courses within the BBA upper-division courses: Math (BU 333), upper-college written English (EN 305), and computer science (BU 327). These hours cannot be counted toward total hours more than once, substituted, or waived by Baker. Completion of this requirement through these BBA upper-division courses does not decrease the total number of hours required for the degree (120 credit hours); rather, it allows students to complete additional elective course work.
Submission of intent to graduate form six months before anticipated degree completion
Payment of all tuition and fees
Approval by the faculty and Board of Trustees

General Education Course Requirements | 33 credits

Introduction to Undergraduate Education (BK 110) 3 credits (required for all BBA students)
Arts & Humanities (with no more than 6 semester credits counted from any one discipline) 18 credits
Social Sciences 6 credits
Sciences 6 credits
Math (College Algebra or higher) 3 credits (satisfied in the BBA upper-division and major courses)
Computer Science 3 credits (satisfied in the BBA upper-division and major courses)
Upper-College Written English 3 credits (satisfied in the BBA upper-division and major courses)

Total 33 credits (minus the 9 credits included in the BBA upper-division courses)

General Electives | 45 credits

Upper-Division & Major Courses | 42 credits

Minimum Credits Required for Graduation | 120 credits

Transfer Hours

We will evaluate your transcripts from other regionally accredited colleges and universities to determine which credits transfer.

BBA Core Courses - Upper Division

EN 305 Written Communication II (Must be taken within the fist three courses.)

This course prepares students for writing in professional settings and in future SPGS courses. Students learn to write analytically and persuasively with a reader-centered approach. Students will employ the writing process of invention, drafting, editing, and revision. Students will become skilled at finding and eliminating most common writing errors and learn to write succinctly. This course is a prerequisite for other upper-division course work. (3 credits)

BU 315 Best Practices in Management and Leadership

Designed to provide an overview of the roles and responsibilities of managers in the day-to-day operation of organizations, this course examines the critical roles of leadership, decision making, and communication and explores aspects of motivation and managing conflict, change, and diversity in contemporary organizations. (3 credits)

BU 327 Leveraging Technology in Decision Making

This course presents the many forms of information systems that provide data to contemporary organizations, including databases, the Internet and decision-support systems. The course reviews system design, infrastructure, security, and electronic commerce. This course satisfies the computer science requirement within the Bachelor of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Accounting degrees. (3 credits)

BU 333 Business Analytics

This course introduces analytics and statistics as applied to managerial planning and issues. Emphasis is on conceptual understanding as well as conducting analytic analyses. Students learn the limitations and potential of business analytics with hands-on experience. The course covers the basic concepts of analytic model building and its role in rational decision making. Students are encouraged to take an analytic view of decision making by examination of trade-offs, constraints, uncertainty, and analyses. Students collect and analyze analytics to prepare and present a comprehensive final project report. (3 credits)

MKT 300 Principles of Marketing

This course is an introduction to the basic principles of marketing, practices, and the application of these practices. Subjects covered include ethical decision-making, feasibility analysis, products, promotion, channels of distribution, pricing, international marketing, and use of technology in marketing. Prerequisite for Marketing majors only. (3 credits)

BU 348 Strategic Human Resources

This course introduces the essential elements of personnel management. Students study employee recruitment, hiring, training, and evaluation. Students learn the processes of wage, salary, and benefit administration. The importance of labor relations is also emphasized. (3 credits)

BU 352 Business Law I

This course examines the formation and application of common law, the Uniform Commercial Code, and administrative agency law in relation to the business organization. (3 credits)

BU 373 Applied Accounting for Business Decisions

This course goes beyond the mechanics of financial accounting to provide a more advanced understanding of accounting practices. It incorporates financial and managerial accounting concepts, including statement of cash flows, budgeting for planning and control, cost accounting systems, and break-even analysis. (3 credits)

Organizational Management Major Courses

MGT 387 Entrepreneurship
This course examines the problems, opportunities, and methods of starting a new business or running a small business. The course examines the special needs of entrepreneurs regarding forecasting, planning, venture capital, trade finance, marketing, staffing, structuring, budgeting, cost control, and operations. It also examines the use and application of the Internet and electronic business tools. (3 credits)

LDR 365 Leadership: Lessons from History
Students evaluate leadership lessons learned across time by surveying leaders and applying leadership theory to their styles. Readings will illuminate the actions taken by many leaders as they struggled with making ethical decisions, thinking critically, and building teams of people. (3 credits)

LDR 397 Leading and Coaching Teams
Students experience an applied approach to effective leading and coaching models and applying these concepts. Students develop structures, processes, and strategies to create and maintain effective teams. (3 credits)

MGT 455 Business Policies Analysis
Students will find out about the contemporary policy issues facing business professionals, and integrate the various disciplines encountered in the BBA program. The course focuses on learning to evaluate alternatives and construct an effective policy statement. (3 credits)

MGT 485 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution focuses on contemporary processes in conflict resolution, as well as the psychodynamics of conflict. Students study the evolution and application of conflict resolution. The course also examines application of behavioral science concepts and skills within the programs, operational units, or systems of an organization. (3 credits)

MGT 491 Management Issues and Society .
Management Issues and Society explores the interrelationships among business, society, and the government. It examines issues such as corporate responsibility, ethics, ecology, public affairs, and the complex roles government plays in business in a global economy. (3 credits)