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In this tough economic climate, you need to set yourself apart from the competition. Penn State’s business programs for adult learners can provide you with job-ready business skills while adding impressive credentials to your resume.
Bachelor's Degrees
Bachelor’s Degree in Organizational Leadership
Develop supervisory skills to become an effective leader. Gain a better understanding of organizations, their processes, and their interactions. The degree program focuses on three major themes; employer and employee; law, policy and organizations; and workplace dynamics with a flexible curriculum so you can tailor your course of study to meet your individual career goals.
Bachelor's Degree in Business
Continuing Education offers the general education building blocks you need to advance to a Bachelor of Science degree through Penn State’s World Campus. The degree combines management, marketing, finance, and logistics — with applied study in a practical setting. Through the 18-credit management and marketing option, students develop a specialty related to this key business sector.
Associate Degrees
Associate Degree in Business Administration
Gain job-ready business proficiencies. Add attention-getting credentials to your résumé. The associate degree program in business administration can help you acquire additional expertise in accounting and mathematical skills, marketing, and communication. You can start the program by completing the basic and advanced business certificates then proceed through the associate program at your own pace as a full- or part-time student.
Associate Degree in Information Sciences and Technology, General Business Option
Gain knowledge of information systems, and extensive practice in using contemporary technologies in the creation, organization, storage, analysis, evaluation, communication, and transmission of information. Learn about the structure of database systems, Web and multimedia systems, and the design of information systems as you prepare for a career as an application programmer, network manager, Web designer and administrator, or a related career in the IST field.
Associate Degree in Letters, Arts, and Science
Build a solid educational base in the liberal arts. Expand your career options. Hone your critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. With the associate degree program in letters, arts, and sciences, you can build on these proficiencies so highly valued in the workplace — and gain valuable knowledge to work in business, industry, government, and international concerns.
Certificates and Professional Development
Basic and Advanced Business Certificates
Penn State’s basic business certificate program can provide you with a solid foundation in essential business concepts and offers a convenient way to “step up” to a degree program using the credits you earn in the certificate. The program can give you an understanding of management and marketing and help you improve your writing skills. You can customize your education through a series of business-related electives to meet your specific needs and interests. Students who have completed the basic business certificate are eligible to earn the advanced business certificate.
Penn State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing special accommodations or have questions about physical access provided, please contact the program coordinator at 814-865-3443.