CORVALLIS - The Oregon State Board of Higher Education has approved four new bachelor degrees for the College of Business at Oregon State University at its recent meeting.

The new degrees are in business information systems, management, finance and marketing.

Starting this fall term, students at OSU will be able to choose and declare any one of five available majors - and multiple majors are possible. With these four new degrees, and the existing degree in accountancy, the OSU College of Business now offers more business undergraduate majors than any other college of business in the Oregon University System.

OSU also offers entrepreneurship and international business as secondary options, available in combination with other disciplines. The OSU-Cascades campus also offers general business.

Majors add as many as 12 credits to course requirements in each discipline.

The change to five discipline-specific majors is the final step in the transformation set forth in the college's five-year plan.

In the first phase, completed in 2006, the college adopted a professional school model in order to better align resources to student needs. In phase two, the college realigned its business core curriculum, adding a freshman-level course to overview the field of business, requiring an entrepreneurship course for all business majors, and placing an increased emphasis on communicative skills.

Linn-Benton small business program

The Small Business Development Center at Linn-Benton Community College offers the year-long Small Business Management Program for business owners who have been in business for a year or more.

Your Business Plan begins Tuesday October 13 and continues on consecutive Tuesday evenings through Nov. 10. Classes are held from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Corvallis Benton Center, 757 NW Polk, Room BC-105.

The class continues for Winter Term 2010, with Understanding Financial Statements and concludes in April with Your Marketing Plan.

One-on-one business advising once a month with the Instructor, Marty Schulz MBA is also part of the class.

Also Building Your Business, the second year business management program for business owners, will meet once a month beginning Thursday Oct. 15 from 2 to 5 p.m.

Call (541) 917-4929 for more information.

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