<p>Areas</a> of Study | Columbia University Office of Undergraduate Admissions</p>
<p>In the link above, "Areas of Study" are listed for the College, but upon further investigation, the Business Management area of study has perplexed me. </p>
<p>Is it simply a special set of classes available to undergraduates?
A major itself?
Or a concentration?
And are there any posters here who are familiar with it, how popular it is, and how good of a program it is?</p>
<p>Business Management is a “Special Concentration,” which means that it is not sufficient in and of itself to graduate, but still counts as a concentration. Due to the amount of requirements within the Core, the school allows you to graduate with a major, a concentration, or some number of either. In other words, you don’t have to fulfill a major to graduate; you have the option of just doing a concentration. Not that many people do this, but it’s an option. A special concentration (Business Management, Linguistics, Jazz Studies, Sustainable Development, and a few others) is special because it “is not sufficient for graduation in and of itself. It must be taken in conjunction with a major or a full concentration in another discipline.”</p>
<p>The program in Business Management is actually new starting this year, and it requires an application and acceptance into the program. It’s limited to twenty people, but I have no idea how many apply. As a result of its newness, it’s hard to evaluate it at this point, but the B-School here is quite good, so the quality should be pretty high. On the link you provided, if you click “Business Management” and then click the “Undergraduate Requirements” tab, you’ll see the requirements for the concentration, as well as the benefits of being in the program.</p>
<p>to add more information - it will be growing slightly over the next few years.</p>
<p>it is ideally set for folks that want to major in let’s say economics or psychology or statistics and take the business management special concentration to delve into the real world applications of those fields.</p>
<p>That actually sounds like a pretty sweet deal :)</p>
<p>I’ll be sure to look into it!</p>