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Wall Street Journal ranks Cornerstone University as one of America's best colleges 2026.

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Shape Organizations with a Business Management Bachelor’s Degree

Are you ready to lead, solve problems and shape organizations? With a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Cornerstone University, you’ll gain the skills and experience to launch a career in business management, human resources, operations, project management, nonprofit leadership and more. This hands-on program helps you master decision-making, leadership, and team management while exploring real-world case studies and practical projects relevant to your future. Grounded in a Christian worldview, be equipped to lead with confidence in this fast-growing degree that offers transferable business management capabilities for every industry.

Develop Market-Ready Capabilities for Business Management Degree Professionals

Gain highly sought-after skills through Cornerstone’s 120-credit-hour career-focused management curriculum:

Leadership and Team Management – Learn to lead and manage teams by motivating others, fostering collaboration and driving business goals.

Strategic Decision-Making – Discover how to analyze problems and make decisions that solve complex challenges and create organizational success.

Professional Communication – Communicate clearly and effectively across business environments to ensure your message is understood and impactful.

Project Management – Master the skills to plan, execute, and deliver projects on time, within budget and aligned with business objectives.

Strategic Planning – Develop the ability to set long-term goals and create actionable strategies that guide organizations toward growth.

Financial Literacy – Explore budgeting, financial reporting, and key business metrics to make informed financial decisions.

Data Analysis and Visualization – Analyze data and create visual insights that transform raw information into actionable business decisions.

Human Resource Management – Build expertise in recruiting, developing, and managing high-performing teams that drive organizational success.

Morally Grounded Ethical Decision-Making – Use data-driven strategies guided by Christ-centered integrity, transparency, and ethical responsibility for long-term influence.

Courses

Cornerstone is ready to help you excel in your chosen field. The information below reflects just a few of the general education and industry-focused courses you will experience to achieve your degree.

Featured Courses

MGT-232: Entrepreneurship

Engage in the Lean Start-up process, practice customer discovery, agile decision-making, and pitching ideas by collaborating with local entrepreneurs and companies.

MGT-238: Principles of Leadership

A highly interactive course where students explore leadership theories, practice key principles, and discover their leadership style.

MGT-330: Human Resources Mgt for Non-Profits

Gain foundational knowledge of public sector human resources management, including concepts, terminology, and technical skills for workplace issues. Learn through lectures, case studies, and discussions with focus on ethical practices.

MGT-333: Operations & Supply Chain Mgt

Survey operations management with emphasis on planning, design, and operation of processes for goods and services. Address management tools, quality, process engineering, and lean/continuous improvement.

MGT-335: Organizational Behavior

Explore how individual, group, and organizational dynamics influence workplace culture and performance alongside strategies to improve collaboration and organizational success.

MGT-336: Project Management

Cover factors for completing large and small projects, including selection, chartering, scope, resources, scheduling, budgeting, controlling, termination, and team leadership. Apply skills through a semester-long project plan.

FIN-341: Principles of Finance

Learn the theoretical framework for financial decision-making and the role of the financial manager in capital budgeting, investing, and financing activities.

BUS-361: Business Law

Study the legal process, negligence, wills, trusts, estates, property law, contracts, negotiable instruments, bank deposits, secured transactions, bankruptcy, business enterprises, administrative law, agency, and employment law. Apply legal concepts to business practice with integration of biblical principles.

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General Education

The Cornerstone Core™ Statement

The Cornerstone Core offers a groundbreaking general education unlike any other college or university in America. Faith, civic understanding and career preparation are fully integrated into one coherent formation. Developed by our renowned Christian worldview scholars, this focused 33-credit-hour curriculum develops both depth of character and clarity of thinking. The Cornerstone Core new general education curriculum is an antidote to the rising popularity of relativism, skepticism, doubt and moral ambiguity. Graduates are prepared to succeed in their professions and strengthen the institutions and communities they serve as Biblically grounded moral leaders to influence the world for Jesus Christ.

Students in every major study three areas:

The Beauty of Christianity

Examine the beauty of God, the Gospel, and the core doctrines of the Christian faith. Discover the coherence of a worldview rooted in God’s truth through Scripture applied today —- shaping character, conviction, and spiritual depth. We believe that beauty is more important than arguments and these courses will introduce students to the grandeur and beauty of Jesus and His creation and our place in the redemptive work of Jesus.

The Wisdom of the American Experience

Engage with Cornerstone’s Great Works Canon of the American Experience, by exploring the original speeches, sermons and foundational texts that shaped the American Republic, wrestling with enduring questions of liberty, order, duty and self-government. Graduates will learn what it means to be Christian citizens who are dutiful, wise, and formed with character to influence themselves, their families, and our nation.

Marketplace Intelligence

Develop analytical reasoning, scientific thinking, ethical utilization of artificial intelligence, commitment to free market economics, ethical clarity, and truthful and effective communication strategies to create solutions to complex challenges and serve society and humanity with excellence. Graduates will be able to consider and discern what is true, beautiful and good.

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Influential Careers with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management Degree

  • Production Manager
  • Business Manager
  • Human Resources Manager
  • Project Manager
  • Operations Manager
  • Sales Manager
  • Marketing Coordinator
  • Nonprofit Program Manager
  • Entrepreneur/Small Business Owner
  • Financial Services Representative

Tuition

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$22,000 per year

Generous scholarship and payment options available.
Review information about student fees and housing packages on our Tuition & Fees page.

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Your Degree Starts Here

Start your degree at one of the most affordable Christian universities in the region. An admissions counselor is ready to help you begin the enrollment process.

  1. Apply — our application is free.
  2. Set goals — your admissions counselor is here to guide you.
  3. Maximize your credits — you could transfer in up to 75% of your degree credits.
  4. Discover affordability — scholarships and grants are available for qualified students.

Cornerstone has equipped me by teaching me how to deal with situations in my professional career with those who are non-believers and how to speak life to them.

—Trevor M.

The business division is amazing. There are so many knowledgeable professors that love and care for their students. They want all of us to succeed but at the same time, they want to challenge each and every one of us.

—Halle S.

Cornerstone helped prepare me for my career by placing an emphasis on internships, which have provided a lot of practical knowledge and experience.

—Mason B.

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