Undergraduate programs

Minors

Earn a minor in business to gain skills in business innovation

Elevate your degree with a business minor

No matter your true passion, there is a business side to every occupation — that is how the world works. As you are investing in your education and your future, we want you to think about the advantages that skills such as entrepreneurial thinking and business innovation can bring to your sphere of expertise — and how business fundamentals are an important part of any career, whether with a global corporation, expanding startup or local family business.

Requirements and how to apply

Before applying for a minor, please read the requirement information below. For any questions regarding College of Business minors, please contact COB Advising.

Requirements to earn a minor

  • Complete all required courses and credits for the declared minor with a C- or better (cannot S/U)
  • Have a 2.5 College of Business Minor GPA
  • Complete over 50% of the minor credits from OSU.
  • 50% or more of the minor credits cannot also be part of another business program being pursued

NOTE: Students wanting to pursue an OSU MBA later should ideally declare the business minor.

The following terminology will be used regarding all College of Business minors:

  • All-Inclusive Minor (AIM) GPA = average of all grades (OSU and transfer) earned for minor courses
  • College of Business Minor GPA = average of all the OSU grades earned for minor courses

How to apply

  • Review the course and credit requirements for each minor
  • Submit a completed Minor Declaration Application Form electronically.
  • Watch OSU email for results of the eligibility evaluation of minor application. You will be notified whether or not they are eligible to declare. Schedule for notifications is typically every two weeks, except summer.
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Explore Undergraduate Minors

Business minors are designed for all OSU students to enhance their business knowledge as well as for College of Business students to broaden their portfolio of business skills.

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Accounting

Today's accountants are tech-savvy problem solvers, insightful planners and strategic thinkers. Many of the “number-crunching” tasks formerly thought to be part of an accountant's world have long ago been replaced by sophisticated software.

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Business

The business minor give you an understanding of the fundamentals of business essential to any career and any industry.  You'll learn the language of business as well as understand and communicate financial information, organizational behavior, marketing and operations.

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Business Information Systems

Business and technology go together intrinsically. As businesses continue to improve their competitive advantage, information systems such as databases, web services and business applications are supplying strategic and operational opportunities for business leadership and decision-making.

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Cybersecurity Management

The cybersecurity management minor allows you to gain skills needed to protect the information assets of organizations; you'll plan and participate in cybersecurity decision-making with this knowledge.

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Design & Innovation Management

Are you a creative-thinker who can help a business or organization be a leader in design and innovation? Are you interested in working with multi-disciplinary teams on tackling creative challenges?

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Family Business

Family businesses are the dominant form of business operation within the state of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. It's vital to understand the unique dynamics within a family business to equip family members and non-family consultants and executives with the added expertise they need to help a thriving family firm endure.

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Finance

Finance is harnessing the power of money to make things happen. Effective financing enables life-saving research, ground-breaking engineering, and building of infrastructure on which communities and nations depend.

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Human Resource Management

The human resource management minor studies the systems and practices associated with hiring and managing an organization’s human capital.

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Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Business advantages require change-makers, disrupters, and insightful thinkers. Innovation and Entrepreneurship embraces these forces of creativity, innovation and process-based refinements. Here you'll learn how to recognize and develop opportunities in any organization, including corporations, non-profits, family, and small business.

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Marketing

Think about the most impressive marketing campaign you’ve ever seen. It might have come from brands like Nike, Apple or Coca-Cola. These brands have achieved greatness with the help of a strong marketing strategy. This is what you'll study — the science of consumers, product and communication to build strong, successful brands.

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Organizational Leadership

Planning, organizing, leading, taking initiative … does that sound like you? If you want a career where leading others and managing change effectively are your keys to advancement, look no further than organizational leadership.

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Sports Business

Sports are more than just a game. The global sports business industry is a rapidly evolving area of work. And this booming field needs professionals who can manage growth opportunities and cultivate innovative, data-driven strategies to advance the industry.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Management

Trade, manufacturing, sourcing, global production — every item you touch and use, from your toothbrush to your telephone — has a complex story of parts and pieces that brought the functioning item to you; supply chain and logistics management provides you with the knowledge to optimize how all these parts come together and when developed, in fro

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Are you interested?

Next Steps

Our advice is to talk with a College of Business academic advisor. They'll help evaluate your transcript and GPA to be sure that your grades and balance of credits at OSU align with general performance standards of a student in good standing.

Complete the minor declaration application form prior to this meeting — keeping in mind that approval process takes about two weeks. You may have also reviewed the prerequisites or perhaps consulted with your major advisor about how a business minor is attainable. Please explore the offerings, and get ready with your questions for that advising appointment.