They are individuals interested in career advancement but find that promotion opportunities in businesses are limited without a bachelor's degree. The B.A.S. degree with a major in business enables students to complete a degree while engaged in coursework relevant to their work. While completing the coursework, students tend to use their newly gained education in their work places to enhance their responsibilities and use added duties to redefine their job descriptions. Candidates for the Applied Business major work within businesses or own or manage businesses. They have a need and desire to apply business theory and gain broader and more in depth knowledge about business in general.
Graduates work in all areas of business.
They often stay within their current companies and receive promotions or seek promotional opportunities elsewhere. It is a four year University degree. An applied approach in the classroom stresses the understanding of theory and its use in the workplace. One outcome of this emphasis on skills is that more of the required courses are related to the needed specific skills and fewer general liberal education credits are required to meet the 120 credit degree requirement. The Applied Business degree does not require a second language.