Majors

To major in business at TCU, declare business as your major when you apply to TCU. Upon completion of lower-division requirements, you’ll choose an exciting pathway among our majors.

Accounting

Do you like to find answers, solve problems and help people? Get ready for a rewarding, challenging, well-paying career in accounting.

Accountants and auditors are smart, organized, detail-minded, objective professionals who are good communicators and possess high integrity. You can work with individuals, Fortune 500 companies, not-for-profit organizations, governments, startup companies, schools and more. Through TCU’s Professional Program in Accounting (PPA), you can get your BBA and Master of Accounting degrees in five years, putting you on the road to take the CPA Exam to be a Certified Public Accountant.

Business Information Systems

Excited about technology? Do you love finding better ways for companies to serve their customers? Here’s your chance to apply the latest innovations to digitally transform modern business.

Organizations are struggling to recognize the opportunities and risks of what has been called the next industrial revolution – digital transformation. You can help executives understand and leverage the rapidly changing technologies of social media, the internet of things, mixed reality, blockchain and analytics tools.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Are you outgoing and persuasive? Have innovative ideas for better ways to do something or like to help others with their ideas? Launch yourself with this unique major.

Entrepreneurial thinkers can spot a business opportunity and seize it. Whether you want to start your own company, help someone with their big idea, or innovate within an existing organization, a major in entrepreneurship and innovation gives you the skills to carve out your niche as an innovator. Your creative mindset will be equally valuable in a new business or an existing one. Learn to gather resources, recruit talent, design a business model, develop products or services, communicate a compelling vision, and manage and grow a business.

Finance

Finance careers focus on adding value through the risk-return relationship, integrating finance with economics and accounting to make wealth-enhancing decisions. Investment specialists evaluate and select securities, manage investment portfolios and raise capital to finance businesses, governments and individual needs. Financial officers manage investments, oversee forecasting and budgeting, raise and allocate funds, perform cost analysis and formulate financial and credit operating policies.

Finance with a Real Estate Concentration

If your interests include mortgage lending, real estate development, asset management, appraisal or real estate management, consider this path to prepare for a career in the real estate industry.

You'll cultivate the skills to manage portfolios, perform risk analysis and study capital market trends as they relate to real estate principles, valuation, law and finance/ investment analysis. Learn to appraise and develop real estate and evaluate real estate investments. Plan, implement and analyze real estate finance instruments, including mortgage markets, credit analysis and real estate lending. Develop discounted cash flow models for potential real estate investments.

Management

Business is about people. And people need managers with a leadership mindset for success. The best managers excel at decision making, finding common ground, communication, team building, adaptability and strategic planning. With a major in management, you’ll explore, learn and practice the range of skills employed by today’s most respected, successful, ethical leaders.

Management Double Majors

Get the most out of your TCU Neeley degree with a management double major. The Wall Street Journal identified management as the most promising career of the next decade. By combining management with the technical skills from other Neeley majors, you prepare yourself not just for your first job, but for your entire career.

Marketing

Are you innovative, curious and resourceful? Do you like problem-solving and discovering the next best thing? Put your passion to work with an exciting career in marketing.

Every organization wants to be successful. The key is understanding what customers want and need, and that’s where marketing comes in. With a degree in marketing you'll be uniquely positioned to leverage messaging, create and manage brands, explore partnerships, apply marketing research and engage with customers across an array of platforms. In today's fast-paced world the need for marketing has never been stronger, and demand is strong for high-tech, multichannel marketing skills. The opportunities are endless.

Supply and Value Chain Management

With same-day delivery and global components, making sure products get to the right place at the right time for the right price is easier said than done. You’ll be in high demand with this major.

Supply chain professionals play a critical role in bringing value to their companies. They must communicate effectively within their organizations and across a global network of suppliers and customers while applying analytic skills. You'll learn innovative techniques to develop sustainable solutions that holistically address business problems. Supply chain talent is in short supply, allowing graduates early career opportunities to make a difference in major corporations.

Minors

You aren’t required to have a minor with a business major, but you may choose one below or outside the Neeley School of Business – to give you another area of expertise and more career opportunities. Note that the accounting, finance and global business minors may not be added to majors outside the Neeley School. The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor is not available to business majors.

Accounting Minor

Only students majoring in another business major can pursue an accounting minor.

Required 18 hours:

Energy Business

Students from any major are eligible to enroll in our Energy Business minor, which requires at least 18 hours of energy courses. The energy minor helps provide students with an understanding of current and emerging technologies and management strategies associated with the energy business.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation – for Non-Business Majors

If you are not majoring in business you may pursue a minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Achieve the framework and skills to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors or be innovative and entrepreneurial wherever your career path takes you.

Requirements:

  1. Complete at least one full semester at TCU with a minimum overall GPA of 3.0 and TCU cumulative GPA of 3.0.
  2. Must have Sophomore status
  3. Complete the online application
  4. Submit a transcript.

Required Courses – 12 hours:

Electives – 6 hours from the following:

Note: Students may not simultaneously pursue a minor in General Business and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor.

Finance Minor

Only students majoring in another business major or economics can pursue a finance minor.

Required 12 hours:

Six semester hours chosen from the following:

General Business Minor – for Non-Business Majors

If you are not majoring in business you may pursue a general business minor.
Required 18 semester hours of coursework (21 hours including prerequisite).

Prerequisites

Required 18 hours:
Once you enroll at TCU, you must complete all coursework in the general business minor at TCU.