For additional information regarding the Management major, please visit the new Management website.
Overview
UC Merced's Management and Business Economics major responds to the growing demands and needs of the 
modern business world. The major provides rigorous analytical and quantitative training from a blend of fields including accounting, economics, finance, marketing and strategy.
Today's managers tackle issues involving a number of management functions and do not always fit neatly into subject areas. The UC Merced approach is to integrate key ideas and approaches from across subject areas to evaluate and understand all the dimensions of a given issue. Creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship are emphasized.
The Management and Business Economics major prepares students for a broad range of management-related careers. The major reflects the demands of private- and public-sector organizations for employees who are trained in analytical and quantitative decision-making, who work effectively in teams and on projects, who are comfortable in various cultures, who are "well rounded" in sciences and humanities and who have learned the art of self-directed learning.
The curriculum provides a strong foundation in analysis and problem solving across a wide spectrum of management activities, and promotes reasoning skills and critical analysis as required in a modern, volatile business environment. The theoretical underpinning for the undergraduate program comes from business economics and management disciplines that use tools and techniques based on applied mathematics and statistics to solve problems in virtually all areas of business operations. The typical undergraduate student develops skills to build quantitative models of complex operations in competitive and in imperfect markets and will be able to use these models to facilitate decision-making.
Program Learning Outcomes
Our faculty members work to prepare students for a holistic understanding of the knowledge and skills of the discipline. Upon completion of the degree, we expect students who major and minor in Management and Business Economics to demonstrate the following:
- Analyze key data and solve problems related to business management;
- Apply theories and concepts from disciplines in management and business economics (e.g. accounting, economics, statistics, finance and marketing) to business management situations;
- Use effective written and oral communication consistent with the discipline and professional environments;
- Apply information technology to develop business proposals, models and reports with recommendations for economics and management strategies and actions; and
- Evaluate ethical, social and external issues as they relate to the organization, operations, human resources and business ventures.
Refer to the Curriculum Map to see the coherency between the Program Learning Outcomes and our course offerings.
Alumni Success
Student graduates from our program are engaging in graduate studies and careers. A few of these after-college endeavors are listed below.
Graduate School
Student graduates from the Management program are studying in a variety of programs including the University of California campuses at Berkeley and Davis.
Careers
Student graduates from the Management program are working in a variety of professional settings including accounting companies, foundations, professional sports teams and regional-level community organizing agencies.
Updated 2021
