Everyone needs management skills. If engineers, scientists, and others hope to advance in their careers, they must learn how to lead projects and manage groups. The Business minor offers students (other than BU, MGE, or MIS majors, who may take the courses as part of their major or as Breadth or Free Electives, as appropriate) the opportunity to learn some of the theory and practice of managing in organizations with material on management concepts and practices commonly encountered in the business world. This program will help students make a transition to the business world and will provide basic skills for operating effectively in business organizations.
The minor in Business is available to all students at WPI, except for those majoring in Business, Management Engineering or Management Information Systems majors at WPI.
To complete the Business minor, a student must complete two units of work, typically through course work with the following distribution: