A reputation for success
The rigorous curriculum and practical experience ensure that Gies graduates are highly recruited and compensated by corporations, consultancies, and government agencies across the country and the world.
The rigorous curriculum and practical experience ensure that Gies graduates are highly recruited and compensated by corporations, consultancies, and government agencies across the country and the world.
The typical plan of study includes business core courses, major core courses, and the required number of major electives. The major electives sample is not a comprehensive list. Students work directly with a Gies academic advisor to determine appropriate coursework, scheduling, and number of credit hours needed to fulfill degree requirements.
Business core courses
Course | Title | Notes |
---|---|---|
ACCY 201 | Accounting and Accountancy I | |
ACCY 202 | Accounting and Accountancy II | |
BADM 210 | Business Analytics I | |
BADM 211 | Business Analytics II | |
BADM 275 | Fundamentals of Operations Management | |
BADM 300 | The Legal Environment of Business | |
BADM 310 | Management and Organizational Behavior | |
BADM 320 | Principles of Marketing | |
BADM 449 | Business Policy and Strategy | |
BUS 101 | Professional Responsibility and Business | |
BUS 201 | Business Dynamics | |
BUS 301 | Business in Action | |
BUS 401 | Business in a Global Perspective | |
FIN 221 | Corporate Finance |
Sample Supply Chain Management major courses
Course | Title | Notes |
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BADM 324 | Purchasing and Supply Management | |
BADM 327 | Marketing to Business and Government | |
BADM 335 | Supply Chain Management Basics | |
BADM 336 | Modeling the Supply Chain | |
BADM 337 | Practicum in Supply Chain Management | |
BADM 350 | IT for Networked Organizations | |
BADM 375 | Operations Management | |
BADM 378 | Logistics Management |
Sample major and general electives
Course | Title | Notes |
---|---|---|
BADM 311 | Leading Individuals and Teams | |
BADM 312 | Designing and Managing Organizations | |
BADM 322 | Marketing Research | |
BADM 352 | Database Design and Management | |
BADM 356 | Data Science & Analytics | |
BADM 374 | Management Decision Models | |
BADM 377 | Project Management | |
BADM 379 | Business Process Management | |
BADM 380 | International Business | |
BADM 403 | Corporate & Commercial Law |
Mili Mehrotra
Academic Director, Supply Chain Management
Mili Mehrotra is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She received her Ph.D. in Operations Management in 2010 from the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research lies in the domain of socially-responsible supply chains and operations management. In particular, she is interested in developing and analyzing incentive schemes, and studying coordination and optimization issues that arise in practice due to the actions taken by a wide variety of stakeholders for achieving broader social objectives. She is also interested in using discrete models for analyzing problems in service operations, production planning, and logistics. Her papers have been accepted for publication in Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Operations Research, and Production & Operations Management. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production & Operations Management, and Naval Research Logistics.