<p>Can anyone point me to a list of colleges that offer a BA in Retail Management? Or can you provide names of colleges with strong programs?</p>
<p>Just did a google search</p>
<p>Ohio University</p>
<p>University of washington Business school</p>
<p>Santa Clara</p>
<p>Simmons College</p>
<p>Thanks, sybbie and Drew.</p>
<p>Retail management?</p>
<p>really if that is what you wanted to do, just go work at the retailer of your choice. If you are management material, you will move up with a degree or a diploma or neither. You would be suprised how many of home depot management dont even have high school diplomas, started at the bottom as lot attendents and moved up to district managers making 160,00 a year</p>
<p>Just go to business school and major in management...</p>
<p>Wisconsin has one within marketing</p>
<p>South- many in retail who work their way up spend 10 years doing so. Better to start as a mgt trainee and skip to the head of the line in two years. You also get the satisfaction of going to college.</p>
<p>Retail management, real estate? What a bunch of stupid c.unty majors some posters ask for. Why not just major in custodial engineering and learn how to separate the trash into color bins?</p>
<p>Myself and most of my fellow UW real estate MBA alums do very well. More challenging than most liberal arts crap. Wharton and MIT and Berkeley all have RE majors. It is one of the largest, least known and best paid industries in the US and cannot be outsourced to India or China.</p>
<p>MBA is different. However, studying vocational areas such as real estate or retail management for undergrad is pathetic.</p>
<p>No, majoring in Sociology and then having to work at Starbucks and live at home is pathetic. The average UW RE undergrad is starting at around $50k and they all have good jobs upon graduation.</p>
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<p>But at least you can stand proud of having had an education and you will be able hold an intellectual conversation when it arises.</p>
<p>retail management is stupid, your pay will be slightly higher do to a degree, but i am talking ever so slightly here. I could be in management at Home Depot in 3 years if i worked at it. And from there it will purely be performance, the degree will sit in the back window compared to how you met forecasts and senior management expectations.</p>
<p>The reason I originally posted this question is because I am developing a retail management recruitment and training program for a global company. In doing so, we will be creating career paths in a variety of specialties within retail. These include product merchants, global supply professionals, and more. Retail is not just about working as a sales clerk in a store. It also includes building the proper systems and infrastructure to support a major corporation. Starting salaries are actually competitive with other industries and there is great upside potential. In creating this program, I would like to recruit those who have made a commitment to the profession and have academic grounding.</p>
<p>Check out Saint Joseph's University - really great food marketing major on both undergrad, graduate and executive level.</p>
<p>dwincho--in the real world the importance of holding intellectual conversations becomes much less important than holding a good job that allows one to buy a home and pay for the future kid's college. Nevertheless most business majors are pretty bright and happy to discuss politics and other issues. At UW you have to apply to the school after two years of general ed classes and the average gpa is a 3.5 with a minimum of a 3.2 or so. </p>
<p>southpasadena--anybody who writes "do" instead due needs to work on their own education before insulting what others want to do.
Also all jobs award performance and your degree is just another piece of paper in your office.</p>
<p>this is a forum, i write quick, i dont check spelling or other grammatical errors, and do i care?.....NO. This isnt a job or school assignment so i could care the lease</p>
<p>I have been in retail the last few years and i have seen people with degrees, for some reason they tend to stay in middle management in store, while those without even high schoo degrees are in the district office running everythinng from security to marketing, forecast expectations etc etc. </p>
<p>I am saying if you think you have what it takes, there isnt really any point in going to school if retail is your career choice. Now if taking retail is part if a bigger picture. that is different, but if retail management is for you, go to community college, take some classes (i think there are 8 in a retail management study course) and go ahead and move on</p>
<p>southpasadena,</p>
<p>There are may paths to management positions in so many industries. Your suggestion is certainly one of the possible paths. Nowadays companies need multiple sources for hiring individuals talented enough to become industry leaders of the future.</p>
<p>It is interesting to note that many companies are expanding or starting more robust entry-level training programs now. Corporate talent will be retiring soon due to the aging baby boomers (that includes me). This means a loss of the knowledge worker. Companies will be losing about 1/3 of their highly experienced employees in the next few years. Large entry-level training programs will usually bring together new grads with a variety of majors. In retail companies, some of these trainees work within a store. Often, they will work at corporate headquarters. In this case, hiring individuals with academics in retail coupled with passion for the business can lead to a successful match. </p>
<p>If I was unclear, I would like to say that I am not looking for people to work in a store for more than part of their rotation. If that's what I wanted, I would be more than happy to hire people with good customer service skills and a bit of retail experience. I am looking for those individuals who display the commitment mentioned earlier. We want to commit to these new employees and invest in their development. That way we can grow our future leaders.</p>