Program Requirements
About the Major
Mercer’s industrial management major prepares students to be practicing managers with the knowledge and skills needed to:
- Identify, formulate, and solve management problems through analysis and design using the principles of science, mathematics, and the modern tools of management
- Work effectively in a variety of contexts using superior communication skills and knowledge of contemporary issues with a commitment to professional ethics and lifelong learning
- Pursue additional graduate or professional education
- Participate in their local and global communities through sustaining service and leadership
Upon graduation, students will know and be able to:
- Apply quantitative techniques to the solution of management problems
- Apply non-quantitative (e.g. training programs, customer surveys, etc.) techniques to the solution of management problems
- Apply principle of human behavior
- Design and analyze manufacturing, management, and quality systems
- Function on multi-interdisciplinary teams
- Communicate effectively
- Understand the impact of solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context
- Demonstrate an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
- Recognize the need for and ability to engage in life-long learning
Program Requirements
- UNV 101: 1 hour
- General Education: 30 hours
- Math and Science Foundation: 11 hours
- Business/Communications/Cultural/Humanities/Global/Social Science Electives: 9 hours
- Psychology: 3 hours
- Management Foundation: 24 hours
- Accounting Foundation: 6 hours
- Economics Foundation: 6 hours
- Computers, Communications, and Engineering: 21 hours
- Concentration Areas: 18 hours
- Free Electives: up to 6 hours
- Total: 129 hours
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