Major in Business Education at Missouri State University
Career Preparation
Business Education majors will be prepared by our well-qualified
faculty members to teach in grades 9-12, private business colleges
and training and development programs for business and industry.
Many teaching positions are available for students who major in
Business Education. Graduates must, however, be willing to move
to geographic areas where teaching positions are available. For
beginning teaching positions in Missouri requiring a bachelor’s
degree, salaries ranged from $22,800 to about $30,000 in 2004-
2005. Specific teaching salaries vary considerably over the country
depending upon one’s academic preparation, the classification of the
school, the location of the school and other factors.
With further education and experience, Business Education
graduates may become qualified for such positions as business
education department chairperson, supervisor of business education,
teacher or director or assistant director of vocational business and
office education, business manager, principal, school superintendent,
junior college teacher and senior college or university teacher.
Business Education graduates are also qualified to work in many
business, government and office positions.
Academic Program
To prepare for a major in Business Education, a high school student
should follow the college preparation track. We recommend taking
four years of English, three or four years of math (with special
emphasis on algebra), two or more years of social studies, two or more
years of science and at least one year of microcomputer applications.
General business, economics, sociology, psychology, accounting,
office technology and business law are valuable courses to take.
A student who plans to begin work at a community or junior
college and later transfer to Missouri State should take only freshman
and sophomore level courses. Junior and senior courses listed below
should not be completed at a two-year college for transfer credit in
the College of Business Administration core or the Department of
Computer Information Systems major program area. The Business
Education major is a comprehensive program that does not require
a minor to be completed.
Courses
The following is a representative listing of requirements for the
Bachelor of Science in Education degree in Business Education.
Please consult the Missouri State catalog online at www.missouristate.
edu/catalog for specific course descriptions.
General Education
English composition, math, public speaking, physical well-being,
American studies, humanities, natural and social sciences
College of Business Administration Core
Computer information systems, accounting principles, legal
environment/law, business statistics, business communication,
organizational behavior and management, marketing principles,
operations management, financial management, information
systems in business, strategic management and policy.
Education and Psychology
Clinical and field experience, introduction to teaching, supervised
teaching, educational alternatives for the exceptional child,
educational psychology and special methods courses
Major Requirements
The following courses are required:
CIS 195: Introduction to Desktop Publishing
CIS 205: Website Design and Development or
CIS 260: Application Development I
BSE 503: Teaching of Business
BSE 524: Implementing Vocational Business Education Programs
BSE 540: Curriculum Development
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