EDWARD S. AGENO SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Golden Gate University’s Ageno School of Business offers relevant programs in our continuing effort to offer working adults professional programs to prepare you for today’s competitive, rapidly changing global marketplace. With high-quality, in-depth instruction from practicing professionals, you’ll be able to apply what you learn today in the workplace tomorrow. We offer graduate degrees in accounting, business administration, finance, human resource management, information technology management, marketing, psychology and public administration, as well as 13 graduate certificates. In addition, our master of business administration degree allows you to focus on an area of special interest with a choice of eight different concentrations.
DEGREES
Business Administration
Because today’s companies want managers who understand technology, know how to lead and can motivate their work force, these abilities are regularly emphasized throughout GGU’s business administration and management programs. To succeed, you will need skill sets that help you stay current over time in this rapidly changing arena. The evolving global marketplace of today is highly competitive; it demands a new kind of executive. You’ll need a deep grounding in business theory along with first-rate leadership skills, technological sophistication, a keen understanding of human behavior and the ability to motivate — not dominate — coworkers. GGU’s business administration programs are designed to make you the leader who stands out in a crowd.
Finance
Finance experts are among the most valued employees in any corporation. Many CEOs trace their academic and professional roots back to finance, a reflection of the strategic perspective that this discipline provides. Whatever your intended destination in the rapidly changing world of finance, from investments and portfolio management to corporate strategy and financial services, GGU’s finance curriculum delivers the tools necessary for success in your career. Today’s financial experts increasingly depend on the sophisticated analytical techniques that are an integral part of our courses. Our goal is to help you develop the creative decision-making skills that you’ll need to move ahead in the global, technology-based world of finance. With our emphasis on professional practice education, we offer an unwavering focus on how you can be a better manager.
Financial Planning
Those who are considering careers in financial planning will enjoy thinking about the extraordinary advantages of this profession. These include flexibility in hours and working conditions, excellent compensation, and strong and growing demand for planners’ services ( providing, as a result, outstanding employment opportunities). These advantages are widely acknowledged and they help to ensure that financial planning always ranks near the top of surveys of the most desirable jobs. But the profession offers several other appealing qualities that are less often mentioned but perhaps even more significant to
32 Graduate Business Programs
its practitioners: the opportunity to use your talent and education to make significant positive changes in your clients’ lives; and the intellectual and emotional satisfaction that comes from blending technical, quantitative, and analytical abilities with highly developed skills in communication, psychology, and human relations. GGU’s graduate financial planning degrees and certificates will help you to cultivate those skills and abilities. Golden Gate offers one of the oldest and most highly regarded financial planning programs in the country. For those already in the profession, our program is designed to take your established career to a higher level; and for those just entering the field, we will prepare you to launch a successful and rewarding new career.
Human Resource Management
The effective, strategic use of human resources is critical to business success. Business profitability requires increasingly versatile skill sets that are regularly updated. Companies need more innovative and creative employees. Employees need companies that make effective use of their talents and abilities. Global teams need to interact and work across cultures to attain competitive advantage. GGU’s leading-edge human resource management program is carefully structured to give you the foundation and in-depth training you’ll need as a human resource or personnel manager. Through our innovative curriculum, you’ll gain a thorough, hands-on understanding of what is happening in the marketplace; why it is happening; what the future trends may be; and how to positively affect the leading and managing of human resources in a changing, international business climate.
Information Technology Management
The convergence of people, business processes and technology is the driving force in business today. In the 21st century, business and information technologies are increasingly interdependent in driving operations and strategies across the enterprise. These realities put a premium on professionals whose education provides theoretical and applied skills. GGU’s information technology management programs offer you the opportunity to gain expertise in business and IT operations, information technology management, application and systems development and management, and network/telecommunications development and management. By graduation, you will have an in-depth knowledge of IT systems, and the skills to effectively manage their use in support of business objectives.
Marketing
The increased pace of business today has changed the rules about how organizations communicate with their markets. GGU’s Marketing and Public Relations Department monitors the developing trends in the marketplace and the concurrent changes in marketing education they make necessary. In that way, we provide you with a first-rate marketing education that’s both cutting edge and grounded in the strong foundation skills you must have to compete in today’s business environment. You’ll learn to identify issues relating to international marketing and technology, and create new solutions to them. We offer a range of specializations so you can develop a deeper level of expertise
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