Technology Management

The technology management degree is designed to allow a student who has achieved an associate's degree (AAS, AA, AS, or AOS) in a technical or professional area (or at least 60 credits toward such a degree) to complete a bachelor's degree through this upper-division program. Students seeking entrance into the program will enter at the junior-level since they will have already successfully completed at least 60 credits toward an associate-level degree in a technical area. The junior and senior years will have an emphasis in the development of business and management skills with a focus on technology applications. The program includes a significant internship in the final semester of the senior year.

A major feature of the degree is the program design that allows students with a lower-level professional/technical degree to advance into management/administrative positions in their respective professional or technical areas. Another major feature is that this program provides flexibility to the student by providing a variety of choices in upper division directed electives, allowing the students to shape the degree to their needs. It is also designed to provide them with the skills necessary to run a small-to-medium size business in their area of study or to manage a department, a division, or even their own business.

Graduates of this program are eligible for employment in many industries. Business persons in fields ranging from agriculture to auto-body shops to engineering and surveying firms have expressed positive responses to this plan.

The purpose of the BBA in technology management is to provide graduates with the management, administrative, and technological course work necessary to succeed in management and supervisory positions within the business environment surrounding their specific technical or professional field of study.

In order to achieve the bachelor's degree, students entering the program with an earned associate's degree must complete all specified upper-level requirements for the bachelor's degree, fulfill all required prerequisites for upper-level courses, and earn a total of a minimum of 66 credits beyond the associate's degree. The student completing this program will take courses that will result in: a) fulfillment all 10 SUNY General Education areas through 39 credit hours, b) 27 credit hours of technical course work, 18 of which must be upper-level and c) 62 credit hours in the major, 27 of which must be upper-level.