Why Study Business?
When you study business, you’ll look far beyond numbers and spreadsheets. You’ll understand how we keep our favorite organizations and industries thriving. Learn what makes a business prosper—for the people who power it, and for the greater good.
Why Study Business at MMC?
We designed our Business program especially for students who want to combine other interests—art, design, performance, fashion, or social good—with entrepreneurial skills and savvy. Our six unique concentrations make the program highly customizable. You’ll prepare for a range of careers, from theatre and nonprofit administration to marketing management and human resources. You might even start your own business.
What You Will Learn
You’ll learn foundational principles and skills across business disciplines, including:
- Accounting
- Marketing
- Organizational Behavior
- Strategic Management
- Information Technology
As a Business student, you’ll graduate with: critical thinking skills, problem-solving creativity, cultural awareness, and a growth mindset. You’ll explore topics of interest in-depth in your chosen concentration:
- Advertising and Promotion
- Economics
- Fashion Marketing
- Leadership
- Media and Arts Management
- Social Entrepreneurship
Advertising and Promotion
In this concentration, you’ll learn how to create messages to reach different types of customers. Study methods like advertising, personal selling, and digital marketing. You’ll gain the latest industry knowledge as you complete Google AdWords and Hubspot Inbound Marketing certifications.
Economics
Learn how businesses and countries make decisions in our globally-focused Economics concentration. Understand how those decisions affect consumers and citizens. Study the economies of Latin America, Europe, the Americas, or Asia, or focus more broadly on comparative economics.
Fashion Marketing
This business-focused concentration will prepare you to understand the complexities of the fashion industry. Learn how to develop, market, and distribute fashion products to the right consumer, and how to establish a socially responsible and sustainable business. Your experience will be enriched by guest speakers, field visits to companies, and events.
Leadership
For many, studying leadership is about learning what it takes to be an effective manager. You’ll learn that in our Leadership concentration, and you’ll also explore the responsibilities corporations and managers have —to their employees, customers, communities, and the environment.
Media and Arts Management
Take in performances, meet with company directors, and complete challenging internships at organizations ranging from the small and experimental to iconic Broadway theatres. In class, you’ll build a strong business foundation, and outside of the classroom,you’ll learn through experience what it takes to keep the arts alive.
Social Entrepreneurship
This hands-on program will teach you to use the technological, creative, and financial resources at your disposal to start your own social enterprise. With the guidance of professors and local investors, you’ll create and develop a business plan that you can turn into a viable career while helping local communities.
Program Highlights
Internships
Gain hands-on experience in the industries of your dreams. Our Business majors have interned at Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Madison Square Garden, Macy’s, Christie’s Auction House, Ralph Lauren, and many more New York City institutions.
Faculty-Led Travel Courses
Business and Economics are international in scope. So why shouldn’t your education be? Learn firsthand how a global supply chain can affect another part of the globe. Faculty-led travel courses are short-term study abroad opportunities. Students in our Global Fashion Business course have visited London and Paris, two of the world’s fashion capitals.
Student Organizations
Bring your classroom experience to life and find friends who share your interests in our many business-related student organizations, including:
- Fashion Marketing Student Association (FMSA)
- Marymount Business Association (MBA)
- Spoon University
- MMC Investment Club
On the whole, my internship experience increased my confidence in communicating my research to those outside my field and improved my intercultural skills. My experience of evaluating the financial and socio-economic impact of the beneficiary families has given me a real understanding of the practical applications of health policy on communities as well as its impact on the economy.
Jennifer Acevedo’ 19Class of 2019, Major: Business with a concentration in Leadership and a minor in Psychology
I’ve always wanted to combine my love of music with my interest in business and my studies at MMC support that. As an aspiring jazz singer, musicianship classes are important to help hone-in on my craft, and business classes make me a well-rounded artist because they provide me with tools to be more independent and make informed decisions behind the scenes of making music.
Paloma Brooks ’22Class of 2022, Major in Business with a concentration in Media and Arts Management, Minors in Music and Music Industry
The faculty at this school saw potential in me that I did not see in myself and I am forever grateful to have had such kind, intelligent, and supportive mentors.
Madison Fortner ’20Class of 2020, BA in Business with a concentration in Fashion Marketing and BS in International Business
Not only did I start to find myself and carve my path, but MMC and my professors were extremely supportive of me and my career. Being a singer/songwriter and performer my whole life, I was able to go on nationwide tours during the semester as my professors thought it would help me develop my professional skills.
Taylor Tote’ 21Class of 2021, B.A. in Business with a double concentration in Media and Arts Management and Social Entrepreneurship
Double Minor in Music and Music Industry
I cannot imagine a better start in this industry anywhere else, and I’m excited to see what doors will open for me as soon as I complete my internship at FOX5.
Steven Lu ’20Class of 2020, B.A. Business with a concentration in Media and Arts Management and Theatre Arts with a concentration in Producing and Management
Careers and Outcomes
Our Business major program gives you real-world experience in the industries that power NYC—arts, media, nonprofits, fashion, finance, and more. So you’ll be ready to hit the ground running after you graduate. Below are just a few of the roles and places alumni of this program have landed.
Bring It to the Runway
The business department and the Fashion Marketing Student Association host an annual fashion show. A recent show was produced alongside the Asian Students Association and it celebrated and honored the wide range of cultures in our campus community.
