Management BBA Degree

Prepare to Manage People and Projects in Today’s Dynamic Workplace

The world of commerce depends on talented and well-trained professionals to manage businesses. Earning a bachelor of business administration degree in management at The University of Texas at Tyler can give you not only a valuable skill set but also a superior foundation that’s valued by employers in Texas and throughout the country.

  • Complete a curriculum that addresses the most pressing concerns of today’s businesses including globalization, and the emergence of an ethnically diverse workforce and intense competition.
  • Specialize in a particular area of management such as entrepreneurship or human resource management.

Graduates of the bachelor of business administration degree program in management are employed in such locations as: Walmart, East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System, Trinity Mother Frances Health System, city of Tyler, Smith County Appraisal District, Allen Samuels Auto Group, Dillard’s Corporate Headquarters, Trane Co., Carrier Corp., CB&I Howe-Baker Engineers and Southside Bank.

Bachelor’s in Management: State-of-the-Art Technology. Timely Lessons.

  • Master the process of making informed decisions in a complex business environment.
  • Acquire skills crucial to providing astute business leadership in an ever-changing international marketplace.
  • Study the latest management tools and computer applications designed to help managers effectively meet the demands of controlling a budget, deploying staff and increasing productivity.
  • Explore methods of developing teamwork, motivating employees, negotiating, resolving conflict and crafting business strategies.

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Management Courses: Research-Based. Globally Relevant.

  • Managerial Decision Making

    Develop integrative decision-making skills in business. Topics include problem definition, generation of alternatives, data collection, and quantitative and qualitative analysis.

  • Strategic Management

    Focus on the problems and perspectives of a firm's top management as they attempt to achieve and retain competitive advantages. This capstone course integrates accounting, economics, law, finance, management and marketing in solving problems.

  • Management Information Systems

    Undertake a survey of the tools and techniques for the gathering of business information, and the structuring and manipulation of data to support managerial decision-making.

    More about UT Tyler’s management BBA program of study.

    Also see UT Tyler's marketing BBA degree.

Management Faculty: Broad Experience. Student-Centered.

--Study with professors who are avid researchers and published authors on such topics as:

  • Small Business Information and Assistance: A Comparison of Firm Size and Income
  • Managing by Objectives: MBO for Presidents
  • Salespeople Gone Bad! Investigating the Relationship Between the Work-Family Interface, Job Stress and Salesperson Deviance

--Learn from faculty members who are well-connected to East Texas and the regional business community and who have consulting experience with such firms as: Lockheed Martin, Abbott Laboratories Inc., Sun Oil Co. and Dallas Police Department.

--Interact with professors who are respected experts in the management field and frequent speakers at such events as the Southern Management Association Conference, Family Firm Institute Conference and Southwest Academy of Management Conference.

Learn more about UT Tyler's Department of Management and Marketing faculty.