Not all business schools are created equal. Saint Louis University and SLU’s Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business have a reputation for educating successful, ethical business leaders.

SLU’s top-ranked programs, Jesuit tradition of educating the whole person and focus on career preparation will help you become a critical thinker ready to take on tomorrow’s global business challenges.

Professors across SLU are nationally recognized teachers, practitioners, researchers and mentors, so no matter what you decide to study, your academic experience will be rigorous and collaborative.

Personalize your degree

Your major is only part of what makes your academic experience unique. Minors let you explore an interest or add expertise that can make you more attractive to future employers.

At SLU, you can choose from more than 100 undergraduate minors, so there’s something to fit just about any academic interest you have. To view a sampling of the unique courses we offer, be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page!

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Want to Launch a Business While You Earn Your Degree? We’ll Help.

SLU’s Chaifetz Center for Entrepreneurship gives you access to networking opportunities, peer mentoring and other resources you need to develop a successful business. Get your ideas out there:

Learn by Doing

SLU prepares you for post-graduation success with opportunities to apply what you're learning to real-world settings.

Learn from the World’s Top business leaders

Outside the classroom, SLU provides opportunities for you to learn directly from those driving the future of business. SLU’s Boeing Institute of International Business sponsors seminars and conferences throughout the year — an annual international business conference brings the best minds in international business together on campus, and Boeing Distinguished Guest Lecture speakers have included international ambassadors, a United Nations leader and CEOs. The Center for Supply Chain Excellence Rooftop Speaker Series is an interactive panel discussion and networking happy hour that highlights the various challenges and innovations within the supply chain industry.

Looking for an extra challenge?

You may be interested in SLU’s Honors Program. A fit for any major, the University Honors Program offers honors-only courses and smaller, seminar-style classes. In addition to selective internships, independent research projects and study abroad semesters, the program also offers grants for students who want to pursue scholarly research or creative practice projects with the support of a faculty member.

Evan Bloch, marketing and international business major, Class of 2020, says,

“I took my ‘Intro to Business’ class at SLU-Madrid and got to apply what I was learning in the class to the real world while I traveled through different parts of Europe. Whether we were talking about exchange rates, foreign trade zones or economic unions, I realized just how interconnected the world is. With a future in the world of business, a global mindset is vital to succeed.”

Evan Bloch, marketing and international business major, Class of 2020

Evan Bloch, marketing and international business major, Class of 2020 says, “I took my ‘Intro to Business’ class at SLU-Madrid and got to apply what I was learning in the class to the real world while I traveled through different parts of Europe. Whether we were talking about exchange rates, foreign trade zones or economic unions, I realized just how interconnected the world is. With a future in the world of business, a global mindset is vital to succeed.”

Evan Bloch, marketing and international business major, Class of 2020

Discover the world of business and the world around you

SLU business students choose from a wide variety of study abroad locations and programs. Study in English or in the native language of your study abroad country.

Explore exchange programs with world-renowned international business schools around the globe, from Beijing and Hong Kong to Denmark and Belgium.

Short-stay programs are intensive courses that explore the culture, economy, legal, political and business environments of emerging markets, such as Panama and Hungary.

St. Louis Means Business

  • You’ll study at our campus in St. Louis, Missouri, a large metropolitan area that has been named one of the top cities in the country for startups.
  • The St. Louis area is home to seven Fortune 500 companies, including Edward Jones, Centene, Emerson Electrics, and the Reinsurance Group of America.
  • Two of the city’s most innovative business districts, Cortex Innovation Community and T-REX Technology Entrepreneur Center, are minutes from campus.
  • SLU is well respected and connected in the business community, so you’ll have valuable opportunities for internships and networking, as well as a competitive advantage after graduation.
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Network with the best

"For one of my internships, I worked within our clients’ businesses as an auditor. I went into a meeting with my manager and my audit team to give the client our firm’s advice. As we walked out of the meeting, my manager said, ‘That’s the chief information officer for this whole billion dollar company.’ Having the experience of meeting with chief executives even before senior year of college is a really unique opportunity."

Joel Ocampo, Class of 2017 and SLU Law Class of 2020

Real-World Experience with Top Employers

Curious where you could complete an internship while at SLU? Here’s a sampling of the employers that offer internships to SLU business students.

  • Alive Magazine
  • Anheuser-Busch InBev
  • Arch Grants
  • Archdiocese of St. Louis
  • Bayer
  • Bridge Software
    • Bunge North America
    • Centene Corporation
    • Defense Contract Audit Agency
    • Deloitte
    • Dyson
    • Edward Jones
    • Emerson Electric
    • Express Scripts
    • FDIC
    • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
    • Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis
    • FleishmanHillard
    • Influence & Co
    • JP Morgan Chase
    • Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club
    • Morgan Stanley
    • NASA
    • Nestle Purina
    • Rawlings Sporting Goods
    • Ronald McDonald House Charities of St. Louis
    • Saint Louis Football Club
    • Saint Louis University
    • Scottrade
    • Second Street
    • Segue Partners
    • Shedd Aquarium
    • Spectrum Brands
    • St. Louis Sports Commission
    • St. Louis Blues
    • St. Louis Cardinals
    • State Farm
    • Synergy Production
    • Stifel Nicolaus
    • Target
    • The Boeing Company
    • Think Tank PR & Marketing
    • UN High Commissioner for Refugees
    • US Bancorp
    • Venture Cafe
    • Visa
    • Wells Fargo
    • World Pediatric Project
    • World Trade Center St. Louis
    • World Wide Technology

SLU entrepreneurship grad Summer Albarcha is an internationally known fashion blogger and Instagram influencer. Albarcha received support and mentoring from the Chaifetz Center for Entrepreneurship’s Blue Diamonds Accelerator Program, and she’s grown her brand through collaborations with Nike, Target, Adidas, Anthropologie and more.

Among the best in the U.S.

Become a servant leader

In SLU’s unique service leadership program, you’ll grow into a leader who thinks ethically and innovatively to solve problems. You’ll complete service projects, attend classes and leadership workshops and take coursework focused on issues of social justice and civic responsibility.

Already thinking about graduate school?

In addition to programs at the prestigious Saint Louis University School of Medicine and Saint Louis University School of Law, SLU offers more than 100 graduate programs to choose from, with many ranked in the nation’s top 50 in their disciplines. Many of our graduates also go on to pursue graduate degrees, medical degrees or law degrees at top-ranked institutions.

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Hollywood and History: Storytelling through History and Film

Through the use of storytelling from both history and film, explore the wide diversity of narratives in American culture. Movies and field trips connect the topics to local events and historical sites.

Madonnas, Witches, Rebels: Women and Gender

Explore the work of female Italian writers, thinkers, filmmakers and artists through the lens of gender and feminist theory. Study women’s changing roles and experiences in Italian history, as well as class, ethnic and racial differences among Italian women.

Spirituals, Motown and Hip Hop: African American Social History and Music

The history and evolution of African-American music is rich and complex. Explore music genres within historical time frames to fully understand the origins, growth and development of black music and the experiences of African Americans.

Jewelry and Metalsmithing

Explore the basic techniques of traditional and non-traditional metalsmithing. The course includes reviews of current and historical jewelry concepts. Take part in demonstrations, critiques, projects and concept development.

The New Flamenco Experience

Traditional Spanish dance with a contemporary flair. Learn rumbas, tangos and bulerias, and then show them off at modern flamenco clubs around Madrid, Spain. The perfect choice for a student interested in mastering Spanish dance in only one semester.

Irish Cinema

Focus on how Irish film engages with and complicates familiar Irish cultural issues, including nationalism and postcoloniality; the Catholic / Protestant divide; gender and sexuality; nostalgia and landscape; exile and emigration. In addition to exploring modern Irish history and culture, students study Irish cinema in terms of genre and aesthetics.

Superheroes and Social Justice

Comics allow for a suspension of disbelief that renders philosophical thought experiments about morality not only accessible but riveting. Examine some of the best and most pertinent morality plays the medium has to offer as you learn the fundamentals of bioethics and explore the practical implications for modern health care ethics.

Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll: Morality Politics in the United States

Morality politics is defined as the legal sanction of right and wrong. Examine the historical foundations of legislating morality in the United States, including the prohibition of alcohol, the war on drugs, capital punishment and same-sex marriage.

Soviet Agents/Spies on Screen: Filming Espionage in the East and West

Explore ways in which Soviet and post-Soviet directors examined Russia’s history of espionage in connection with Russia’s extensive secret police network by comparing their works with those of their Western counterparts in an effort to explore political and cultural dimensions to the portrayal of espionage on screen.

Archaeology

Get an introduction to archeology as a subfield of anthropology, as well as the scientific methods and procedures, tools and techniques used by archaeologists to investigate, reconstruct, interpret, preserve and learn from artifacts, features and ecofacts.

Psychology and the Soul

Consider the intersection between psychology and theological conceptions of the "soul" and "self." Gain the critical means by which to think about the relationship between psychology and religious beliefs and experiences.

A Post-Human Future? The Ethics of Technology

Technological advances are changing the way we understand human nature. This course provides the forum for asking if this is a change for the better. Identify and understand key issues in the development and use of technology.

Latin American Business

Focus on the cultural, historical, economic, social, political and business environments in Latin America and on the activities of multinational corporations therein.

Asian Business

Become acquainted with Asia’s basic business environments, styles and practices of Asian management and the implications of the Asian business environment. Get practical knowledge of the complexity of the business environments of the region and incorporate the analytical skills and strategic thinking into the reality of the Asian markets.

Talent Management

Explore human resource planning, recruitment policies and practices at all organizational levels, including pre-employment selections, interviewing and testing techniques and tools, appraisals and development of employee resources, internal personnel administration and equal employment opportunity affirmative action programs.

Astrodynamics

Explore space environment and two-body problem and get an introduction to orbit mechanics, rigid body dynamics, satellite dynamics, rocket performance and re-entry dynamics.

The Air Force Today

Designed to introduce you to the United States Air Force and Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, this course explores the mission and organization of the Air Force, officership and professionalism, military customs and courtesies and other skills.

Airport Planning

Become acquainted with the basic concepts of airport planning and construction, as well as investigation of various community characteristics and resources.

Aviation Weather

This course will provide the fundamentals of meteorological theory with a specific application to aviation and flight. Appropriate weather services that are available to the pilot will be covered.

Spanish Civil Architectural Infrastructure: Ancient and Modern

This study of civil engineering, architectural and construction practices within the Spanish civilization is focused on interrelationships between humans and structures such as aqueducts, canals, dams, bridges and highways. Includes a two-week field trip in the Spanish countryside.

Foundations in Traditional European Cuisine

Get an introduction to the cuisine of Europe with an emphasis on classical French cuisine and the theories, techniques, recipes and formulas for cooking developed principally by Chef August Escoffier. Learn about the production of stocks, sauces, soups and various entrees, along with traditional cooking techniques and knife skills, in hands-on labs.

Human Growth and Development through the Lifespan

Explore the basic theories and principles of development, influences on the developing person, and norms of development from birth through old age, including physical, mental, emotional, social and moral-spiritual characteristics.

Criminology: The Nature of Crime

Begin to understand the nature of crime by exploring theories of why criminals offend, considering both individual and contextual level factors that contribute to or facilitate propensities toward criminal behaviors.

Education of the Exceptional Individual

Study the concept of exceptionality and specifically address the implications of atypical educational development. Explore alternative instructional strategies, educational decision-making, special education resources, inclusive programming, and related issues.

Children’s Literature and Media

Examine a wide variety of literature and media created for children, considering genres, how children’s literature and media is used to develop literacy, notable authors and illustrators, and ways to critically analyze literature and media from diverse perspectives.

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