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Learning how to manage a small business is not a small feat. While an idea, product, or service may be an initial launch-pad for business owners, there are many aspects to operating a company that can’t be simply figured out alone. Courses like accounting, marketing, finance, and leadership take these skills and break them into cohesive instructional sessions so that students can use the acquired skills later in their own ventures. Small business management degrees range from certificates to bachelor degrees to masters and more. The instruction taught throughout a small business management track commonly comes with highlights from a few successful business owners, sometimes as guest speakers, and sometimes as the actual course instructors. These seasoned business managers know what it takes to survive economic climate change, PR heat, and culture shifts, and can offer practical advice on points you may not have even considered.

Small business managers may go onto use their degrees in certifications in a number of different fashions across many different industries. Hospitality business owners like hotel operators, as well as restaurant proprietors, for example might use a small business management degree to better understand how run their operations to create the highest level of customer satisfaction. While retail owners might use this kind of program to understand profit/loss margins, business accounting, and payroll taxes. Regardless of industry, a small business degree has the opportunity for lots of different kinds of applications after college.

Example Courses

• Business Accounting
• Marketing
• Team Building and Organizational Leadership

Potential Industries

• Hospitality
• Restaurant and Food Industry
• Retail

Colleges Offering Degree

• Southern New Hampshire University
• Southern New Hampshire University
• Walden University