Managerial courses emphasize human values and techniques for establishing a sense of responsibility to employers,employees,and other stakeholders while building strong relationships.

Marketing and social entrepreneurship courses demonstrate the role of marketing in business and provide students with adaptive skills and tools to think creatively and develop innovative business ideas and solutions.

Finance and accounting courses equip business students with the primary concepts and skills necessary to understand budgeting and funding and to evaluate the cash flow within an enterprise.

The Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system is used by Federal statistical agencies to classify workers into occupational categories for the purpose of collecting, calculating, or disseminating data. The Business Systems Management, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) program offered at Laurus College can help prepare graduates for a variety of careers that include, but are not limited to the list of careers that may be listed under the following SOC codes (for more information on a particular SOC code, visit www.onetonline.org).

With so many professional opportunities available to people with the right qualifications, Laurus can prepare you for a career that will take you to that next level in life.

• Communication: Demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills; communicate concisely, professionally, and accurately in various professional modes, including emails and presentations.
• Critical Thinking: Demonstrate critical thinking skills by formulating problems and developing achievable solutions; create, analyze and evaluate appropriate solutions, including those for ambiguous problems; streamline information for relevancy; effectively articulate their thinking processes throughout the problem-solving process.
• Management: Demonstrate an understanding of sound management skills, including the effective management of groups and processes, the ability to appraise and evaluate both people and situations, and formulate solutions to common workplace problems; demonstrate knowledge and application of common leadership skills.

• Marketing: Exhibit a strong understanding of personal branding, selling, and promotional techniques and the ability to create compelling advertisements and pitches for goods and services, including product, price, place, and promotional strategy; demonstrate an understanding of the legalities of marketing and intellectual property and the effective use of technology for marketing purposes, and to generate presence, connectivity, and relationships.
• Financial Knowledge: Demonstrate mathematical and problem-solving skills in relation to financial management, including economics, personal finance, math, statistics, and accounting; use financial tools to collect and analyze data and to keep track of monetary trends.
• Business Tools: Effectively use a variety of business and accounting tools, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher, QuickBooks, and available online platforms, to more efficiently and effectively run the day-to-day business operations of an enterprise or organization. Career Opportunities

We offer Associate and Bachelor of Science Degrees. The courses at Laurus College are taught online by experienced professionals from the field, and our college is known for its friendly learning environment and supportive staff and instructors who will feel like family.

You can even connect with faculty, classmates, and staff in person by visiting one of our locations: Atascadero, Chula Vista, Las Vegas, Oxnard, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Maria.