Business Adminstration

Whether your career goal is to start your own business, to advance your career in an existing business, or to continue your education at a four-year institution, the Business Administration program can be a stepping stone on your path to success. The program provides outstanding career opportunities by giving you new job skills or by improving the ones you already possess.

SAMPLE CAREERS IN THIS FIELD: Sales Assistant, First Line Manager, Real Estate Office Assistant, Restaurant Assistant Manager

DEGREES AVAILABLE: Associate of Science, Associate of Applied Science, Associate of Applied Science via Ivy Tech Online, Technical Certificate, Certificate. Availability of degrees varies by campus. Contact your campus of interest below for more information.

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE (21 credits)
Certificates are sequences of technical and professional courses. They provide access to targeted, short-term workforce training, and completers may sit for specific certification exams. Courses in certificate programs also apply toward technical certificates and associate degree programs in the subject area.

Upon completion of the Human Resources Management Certificate, leads to preparation for Human Resource Certification, employment and/or completion of an associate degree.

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION TECHNICAL CERTIFICATE
Technical Certificate programs provide education in conceptual and technical skills for specific occupations. Each program contains a sequence of required courses in a recognized concentration within one of the programs at the College. The program content is designed to develop competency in the comprehension of general and technical skills. Certificate programs require mastery of basic reading, writing, mathematical and algebraic skills. Program and Employment Information

To earn this degree, you must have 31-33 credits in the following areas:

  • General Education Core: 7-9 credits
  • Professional/Technical Core: 9 credits
  • Regionally Determined: 15 credits

ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE
Contact your campus of interest below to find out more about the Associate of Science transfer degree programs. Students are encouraged to review their options with their advisors, to consult the current catalog of the institution to which they wish to transfer, and to contact the institution to which they wish to transfer. Students may also contact the transfer office of their local Ivy Tech for further information.

ASSOCIATE OF APPLIED SCIENCE
To earn this degree, you must have 62-66 credits in the following areas:

  • General Education Core: 19-23 credits
  • Professional/Technical Core: 31 credits
  • Statewide Electives: 12 credits

ASSOCIATE OF APPLIED SCIENCE VIA IVY TECH ONLINE
To earn this degree, you must have 62-64 credits in the following areas:

  • General Education Core: 19-21 credits
  • Professional/Technical Core: 43 credits

CURRICULUM
View the curriculum for this program and all others currently available at Ivy Tech.

LOCATIONS
The Business Administration program is offered at the following campuses. Please click on the campus of interest below for contact and campus specific program information:

Bloomington

Faculty Contact:

Tom Reading
Associate Professor
Business Administration
Phone: (812) 330-6129
Email:
treading@ivytech.edu

Donna Young
Professor
Business Administration
Phone: (812) 330-6128
Email: dkyoung@ivytech.edu


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AS in Business for transfer to IWU
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AS in Business for transfer to ISU

Bloomington Region Certificates
Human Resources Management

Program Summary (pdf)

Central Indiana (Indianapolis)
Contact:
Marva Hunt, Chair
(317) 921-4792
mhunt12@ivytech.edu
Columbus/Franklin
  • Faculty Contact:
  • Ron Dougherty
  • Dean - School of Business / Department Chair - Business & Accounting
  • (812) 374-5151
  • » Program Summary(pdf)
East Central (Anderson, Marion, Muncie, New Castle)
Contact:

Marilyn Kerr
Program Chair
1-800-589-8324, ext. 2325
mkkerr@ivytech.edu
Kokomo (Kokomo, Logansport, Wabash)
Contact
Kokomo
Jim Fitzgerald, program chair
(800) 459-0561, ext. 396

Logansport
Ken Steele, business faculty
(866) 753-5102, ext. 2261

Wabash
Norma Anderson, business faculty
260-563-8828, ext. 309

Certificates offered by the Kokomo region:

  • Human Resource Management
Lafayette
Ivy Tech-Lafayette offers a distance education option for an associate degree in Business Administration.

Contact
Reginald Ramsey
Program Chair, Business Administration
(765) 269-5181

North Central (Elkhart, South Bend, Warsaw)
For more information contact Julie Howar at 574-289-7001, ext. 6385 or jhowar@ivytech.edu.
Northeast (Fort Wayne)
Contact:
Tony Ramey, Program Chair
260-481-2294
aramey2@ivytech.edu

Regionally Determined
Areas of Emphasis

Management

  • Logistics
  • Entrepreneurship
  • International
  • Leadership
  • Quality
  • Health Care
  • General Business
  • Not-for-Profit
  • e-business

Human Resources

  • Generalist
  • Compensation and Benefits
  • Manufacturing
  • Employee Development
  • Supervision

Marketing

  • Advertising/Promotion
  • Research
  • B2B Selling
  • Internet
  • Graphic Arts
  • Retailing
  • Organizational Advancement

Financial Services

  • Banking
  • Finance
  • Investments
Northwest (East Chicago, Gary, Michigan City, Valparaiso)
Business Administration Program Chair

   Joe Joniec
   Regional Department Chair
  (219)392-3600

Business Administration Program Information

Richmond (Connersville, Richmond)
Contact:

Karen Tower, Department Chair
Accounting and Business Administration/Assistant Professor

Ivy Tech Community College Richmond
2357 Chester Boulevard
Richmond, IN 47374

765-966-2656, ext 1119
Toll free: 800-659-4562 Ext 1119
ktower@ivytech.edu
ivytech.edu/richmond


Local Curriculum

See statewide website for additional Business Administration transfer opportunities

Southern Indiana (Sellersburg)
Contact
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Victoria Montgomery
Faculty Support Secretary 
812 246.3301 ext 4143

Justin Suer
Dean of School of Business
812 246.3301, 4709

Melissa Speck
Director of Center for Leadership Excellence
812 246.3301, 4711

David Clifton
Associate Professor 
812 246.3301, 4707

Jerry Scott
Assistant Professor in Accounting 
812 246.3301, 4710

Southeast (Batesville, Lawrenceburg, Madison)
School of Business - Business Administration Program

Rich Geglein - Madison Campus
rgeglein@ivytech.edu
265-2580 ext 4150
(800) 403-2190 ext 4150

Matt Probst - Lawrenceburg Campus
mprobst@ivytech.edu
537-4010 ext 231
(800) 715-1058 ext 231

Southwest (Evansville, Princeton, Tell City)

Business Administration Program Summary

For more information, please contact Sandy Bailey, Program Chair, at (812) 429-1460

Wabash Valley (Terre Haute, Greencastle)
Regional Degree Offerings:
  • Associate of Applied Science (AAS) Degree
  • Associate of Science (AS) Degree
  • Certificate (C)

Contact:

Terre Haute Greencastle
Dr. Bonnie Bolinger PhD. Melanie Boesen
Program Chair Department Chair
812-298-2341 765-653-7410 x5023
bbolinge@ivytech.edu mboesen@ivytech.edu