Business Administration
A Wartburg degree in business administration provides you with the skills to lead teams, spark innovation, and make smart decisions that drive results. From marketing and management to entrepreneurship and finance, you’ll explore every side of business while gaining hands-on experience that will open doors to almost any career path.
Wartburg offers a more than 50 business courses, which is more than many larger private colleges. You will benefit from small classes taught by professors who have experience and expertise in business administration, accounting, and economics. Faculty mentor students for careers as well as for active citizenship through classroom experience, internships, case studies, and undergraduate research.
Why Wartburg Business?
80+%
COMPLETE INTERNSHIPS
More than 80 percent of the college’s business administration, accounting, and economics majors complete at least one internship or field experience before graduating.
CPA
PREPARATION
The accounting program helps students complete the 150 credit hours required for the Certified Public Accountant license in four years instead of five or six as compared to other colleges and universities.
REAL
EXPERIENCE
Students participate with hands-on projects and work with real clients throughout their college career.
FINANCIAL
SUPPORT
Thirty-nine scholarships are awarded to business, accounting, and economics majors beyond the Regents and Presidential awards.
LEADERSHIP
& MANAGEMENT
The department’s partnership with the Institute for Leadership Education allows students to develop their management skills.
Stock up.
Students invest the dividends and interest from a portfolio that has earned as much as $2 million in assets through the Portfolio Management Course. The Wartburg Trading Student Organization actively reviews stock performance through the TradingView economic calendar.
After graduation, I was accepted into the supply chain development program at John Deere. This program consists of three one-year rotations, each offering a different role in supply management.”
Ben Dunlap ’24
John Deere
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Department News & Features
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Wartburg College faculty receive tenure, promotion, emeritus status
The Wartburg College Board of Regents has approved tenure and promotion for three professors. One professor was approved for promotion and five were awarded…
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Wartburg mourns the loss of James Leach, honoree of the James A. Leach Chair in Banking and Monetary Economics
Wartburg College joins the community in mourning the loss of former U.S. Rep. James Leach, a longtime Iowa congressman and the inspiration behind Wartburg’s…
