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The Bachelor of Science in Business with a concentration in Retail Management focuses the student on the retail management environment, from the beginning to the end of the retail value chain. The concentration courses in this program emphasize skill development in strategic management, marketing, supply management, product and brand management, retail operations, merchandising, and personnel management unique to the retail industry.

Have an eye for style and a head for business? This means moving the world's fashions from designers' showrooms to retail sales floors.

In the Fashion & Retail Management program, you'll learn how to develop, analyze, and implement sales strategies. Buying and merchandising practices are explored. Your inventory control and cost analysis skills are honed. And you'll learn more about the many avenues open to you in this exciting field: buying, coordinating runway shows, sales consultation, manufacturer's rep, and more. Department stores, boutiques, and designer showrooms are the environments in which you'll be part of the changing face of fashion, from season to season.

Creative Careers
Once you graduate, you'll be prepared for a variety of entry-level positions, including retail and wholesale sales, stylist, management trainee, or visual merchandiser.

The Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) prepares graduates for a wide range of managerial positions in business, government, and non-profit organizations. Business administration students acquire fundamental as well as practical and professional skills in all phases of business including decision-making and problem-solving capabilities.

The BBA program offers area concentrations that enable students to tailor their degrees to their career and educational goals.

Also available: an Associate in Arts in Business Administration, a Master of Business Administration, an Executive Graduate Certificate in Business Administration and an Undergraduate Certificate in Business Administration.

Specializations are available in:

• Acquisition and Contract Management
• Banking
• E-Business
• Finance
• Hospitality and Tourism Management
• Human Resource Management
• Legal Studies
• Management
• Marketing
• Retail Management

The USCI Fashion Merchandising Degree program has been designed by experts to speed you toward a position in the fashion world.

-Earn up to $55,000/year
(with experience)
-Be in high demand
-Obtain job security
-A huge, growing industry
-An exciting profession
-Degree Program (16 Months!)
-Payments as low as $59/month

High Demand Skills:
The fashion world generates a steady demand for the skills you will learn at USCI. Some of the training you will receive includes:

-Principles of Retailing
-Fashion Textiles
-Global Buying
-Visual Merchandising
-Fashion Design
-Retail Buying
-Fashion Advertising & Promotion
-Consumer Behavior
-Brand Management
-Marketing Principles
-Fashion History