Why Study Business

Advance Your Hiring Potential

The Business Minor curriculum was created in partnership with employers who requested that Leeds build a highly accessible program to prepare non-business majors for the workplace. With a focus on making graduates more marketable, the Business Minor has become the most popular minor on campus with nearly 2,000 students representing every discipline across the university.

Deepen Your Industry Understanding

"You can do anything you want in the world, but you鈥檒l be better off with a little business in your back pocket." That鈥檚 Leeds alumnus and NY fashion designer, Ann Mashburn, on the value of business education. The Business Minor teaches the practical realities of how organizations function, which will inform you where you fit best in your chosen industry. It's easier to know what to do next when you understand the possibilities.

Develop Confidence in Your Path Forward

Business Minors gain access to valuable Leeds programs, including professional mentorship, networking events, skill-building certificates, case competitions, career treks, international opportunities and more. These co-curricular opportunities help you strengthen your career skills, build your professional network, and put your best foot forward upon graduation.

Emmanuel B., Psychology

[The Innovation class] taught me how to manage teams and how to manage myself within a team, which has sparked a passion for leadership.

Emmanuel is considering a joint MBA/JD and is using the Minor to hone his career direction. He worked closely with one of his business professors to secure the first ever civilian internship with the Air Force Academy, an opportunity that drew on both his psychology and leadership interests. He believes Business Minor courses are unique because they offer 鈥減ractical, transferable skills and a brand new way of thinking in a short amount of time.鈥�

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Kelsey M., Sociology

There is so much opportunity to network within Leeds and follow your career path - take advantage of it!

Kelsey learned about Leeds' Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility (CESR) through the Leeds Business Minor, and upon attending one of their events, she found a community of like-minded individuals interested in addressing social and environmental problems. Through a CESR Board connection, she landed an internship with a local natural foods startup. While there she worked with farmers markets and franchises to market new products and assist with their social media campaigns. As Kelsey reflects on her undergraduate experience, she notes: 鈥淚 can鈥檛 imagine where I would be without the opportunities and people met through Leeds.鈥�

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Andres C., Mechanical Engineering

Getting out of the engineering school - meeting new people - gives me perspective on what work is really like.

Andres is a project-oriented person drawn to technical knowledge - so an Engineering major was a natural fit. To satisfy his people-oriented side, he enrolled in the Leeds Business Minor, and his favorite course was the capstone听where he had the opportunity to work alongside business professionals to create a thoughtful business plan. While completing a summer internship related to his engineering major, he used his business finance skills to discover cost-effective solutions, and also came to the realization that the Business Minor has pushed him to be more creative and better able to manage ambiguity.

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Paula P., Civil Engineering

I always want to be challenged, that's important to me, and the Business Minor attracts people who want to be leaders.

Paula chose CU Boulder because of the opportunity for 鈥渃rossover鈥� between the engineering and business schools. While in the Business Minor she participated in case competitions and connected with the Leeds network, and during an engineering internship in the Amazon rainforest, she used her business skills to build financial models. As a result of these joint experiences, she is now pursuing an M.S. in Finance at the Leeds Graduate School. "I loved the [Business Minor] Finance and Business Analytics courses because I love math, but it was a new kind of math. I realized then that I have a talent for business intuition and risks, and the Business Minor helped me hone听those strengths."

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Lane L., Mechanical Engineering

Having this broad knowledge of how the business world works will be very beneficial to me, both as an engineer听- and hopefully -听as an entrepreneur.

Lane pursued the Business Minor for its emphasis on entrepreneurship, a key point of distinction for the university and Boulder. 鈥淏usiness people听I collaborate with have wild ideas, which is great鈥攂ut many of those ideas don't make sense, engineering-wise. On the other hand, engineers often get to the point where they have a full product, but never stopped to consider whether there鈥檚 market demand. That's what鈥檚 great about the Business Minor鈥擨 can combine the two and actually make something feasible.鈥� Now that Lane鈥檚 CU career has concluded, he鈥檚 doing some provisional patenting on his winning Business Minor capstone idea, with the hope of pursuing it as a听side hustle听as he dives into his professional dream of working in the automobile industry.

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Bridget M., Economics

Realistically, no matter what your major, you will be working for a business. The Business Minor听is a great way to figure out what that means for you.

Bridget鈥檚 Leeds Business Minor experience is defined by her professors and classmates. She's impressed with the number of faculty who come from industry, and the opportunity to learn from other听students across campus: 鈥淚've听never been in classes before where people have such different perspectives, but they come together really well. So many majors are represented in the Business Minor鈥� it鈥檚 great because my strength is someone else鈥檚 weakness, and vice versa.鈥澨�

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