Business for a Better World (11 a.m.)

Alright, Good morning everyone and welcome to the College of business at Colorado State University. My name is Mike. How to me, oh, I am the director of undergraduate programs for the College of business and I'm here today to give you some information about what Colorado State University and the College of business has to offer.

To begin with, I'd like to talk a little bit about the culture of our College in College of business. We are in the business of transforming lives. We believe that business can be used to make the world a better place, and so we're really excited and happy that our students and the culture of our college is designed to give students the opportunity be utilized this degree to actually go out and make changes in the world and make it a better place. So if that is something that you're interested in

the College of business at CSU could be a really good fit for you.

Today's agenda I'm going to talk a little bit about our admission requirements. Since we are a competitive major. So I want to make sure you understand what that means. Will also discuss the College of business curriculum, will talk about the various concentrations that we have to offer. Concentrations are sometimes interchangeably used with majors, and so basically the majors that we have. The offer will also talk about student opportunities and the support systems that we have in the college.

To ensure that students can be successful and also achieve their academic, an long term professional goals with Graduate School applications and career searches and then at the end we will also have questions and answers and will bring in a student current business student at CSU so that you can ask them questions.

Throughout the presentation, I'll be happy to answer questions if you post those in the chat, and then if I can't get to them through the presentation at the end during the question and answer portion, I will be sure to go back to those and answer them, but if you have questions, please ask them in chat and I'll be happy to answer those for you.

So let's start by talking about the admission requirements for the College of business. We are a competitive major, which means that we have higher admissions standards than what it takes to get into the University. The reason for that is business at CSU. An like most institutions around the country are very competitive. A lot of people want to go into business, but we can't allow everybody to go into business because we wouldn't have good job opportunities for them. We also wouldn't have the resources to provide our students with a quality education.

So we do have additional admission requirements. This scenario that you see before you is an example of the hard score side or portion of the admission requirement. So a student with a 3.0 two A, 4.0 cumulative GPA.

With a 24 to a 28 on the AC T or an 1152, A 1290 on the math and verbal portion of the essay T those combinations would put you in the running for direct admission to the College of business.

Now, with regard to GPA, this is your cumulative high school GPA. We do accept weighted GPA's. We will actually accept whatever GPA your School Report. So if you are getting weighted grades and classes we will accept that GPA. So whatever GPA your school reports is what will accept.

Now, with regard to the AC T in the essay T Colorado State University in the College of business have recently decided that the AC T and or the essay T are optional.

The main reason for this is it something that we've been thinking about for awhile now, but because of COVID-19 and testing centers, shutting down an students not being able to take the AC T or less 80, it was timing. It was good timing for us to implement this change. So if you do not have an AC T score or an essay T score when you apply, that is absolutely fine. What we will look for if you don't have a test score such as an ICT 80?

We will look at your overall high school experience. What courses did you take? What specific grades did you get in specific types of courses? So what we'll be looking at is to see if you've taken any AP or IB courses. Any honors courses will be looking at specific grades in classes like math and statistics and composition. An if you've taken any business courses will take that into account as well. If you haven't taken any business courses, that's not going to hurt you at all.

But if you have taken business courses, we will take that into account.

And when you apply to the issue, if you do have an AC T or an essay T score, that's wonderful. We will accept that and we will include that as part of the application package. Now the other half of the admission equation is what we call holistic review. This is where we're looking for students who have already started developing the skill sets and the mindset that are going to be necessary for a person to be successful in business at CSU, but also in industry after you graduate. So we're looking for record.

Of Leadership.

Teamwork, appreciation of concept of team and teamwork and also the beginning of developing cross cultural competency skills. So have you started exposing yourself to other cultures? Other ways of thinking? Other ways of doing?

Now most of that we will determine based upon your extracurricular involvements, so if you're involved in clubs and organizations, athletics, cheerleading, Band Choir. If you have participated in the GL BT Q Student organization at your school or help to organize Martin Luther King March, anything that shows us that you have started exposing yourself to other cultures that will be looked upon a very favorably so.

It's obviously the entire package and everybody will not have the same scenario and some of you will have higher GPA's, maybe a little bit less involvement and vice versa, but those are all of the variables that we're looking at for admission for incoming first year freshman students.

Now, if you do not get directly admitted as an incoming first year freshman, it's not the end of the world. We have an internal transfer admission program called undeclared business interest.

And so this is a way for you to still get into the College of business by coming to CSU and proving that you have the skills necessary to succeed. The admission policy that you see before you is also the same admission requirement for a transfer student externally. So if you maybe graduate from high school and maybe go to a Community College or a four year University for a year or so and then transferred to see issue and want to go into business. These are the requirements that you would need to fulfill.

These are also the same requirements that you would need to fulfill if you come to see issue, but maybe start in a different major and then decide that you want to come into business. So to get into the College of business as a internal or external transfer student you will need to complete calculus with the greatest C minus or higher the calculus course that we require at CSU is math 141. It is a business oriented calculus class, but we will accept any higher level calculus course and no matter what calculus you take, the great requirement will be a C minus or higher.

We also require that students complete microeconomics or agricultural resource economics, econ 202, or a wreck 202 with a grade of B minus or higher, and so obviously if you're at another institution, you would need to be taking a course that is the equivalent of one of these two courses. Econ courses listed here, and again, the grade requirement is a B minus or higher.

And then overall you must have established a 3.0 or higher cumulative GPA and that does need to be on a minimum of 15 graded credits. So if you're at Colorado State University trying to come in through undeclared business interests or from another major, you need to have completed at least 15 credits an established a 3.0 if you. If it takes you 30 credits to pull your GPA up to a 3.0, that's fine, but it does have to be on a minimum of 15 credits.

And then if you're coming from an external transfer institution, it is your cumulative GPA on all institutions attended. So maybe you went to a Community College for a semester and then a four year University for a semester and then coming to see issue. It is your cumulative GPA between the two institutions. Now if you meet all of these requirements in their entire T, as long as you've been admitted to see issue, then you are guaranteed admission into the College of business.

The next thing I want to talk about is our curriculum and so we have a very dynamic curriculum. It is always evolving, is designed to make sure that when students graduate, they have the most current curriculum under their belt, which makes our students very marketable. Our curriculum is divided into 4 sections. The top section is probably all University core curriculum. These are basically the general education requirements that are going to fulfill categories for the University.

All students at the University have to complete these categories. Now in business we have developed some courses that actually double count for business majors in the business curriculum, as well as all University core curriculum. So, for example, the calculus course statistics and my.

Through a macroeconomics courses that we require also fulfill AUC, see requirements so wherever possible we try to help you allow courses to double count and that affords you more electives to do with what you want to do.

The next section is called the business core. These classes are the business courses required for all business students at CSU. Their intended to make you a well rounded, well educated business person, and so those classes will begin your first semester at sea issue and go all the way through till your very last semester at sea issue with your capstone strategic management.

If you are an incoming first year freshman your first semester, we would want you to take introduction to business and in that course we're going to one introduce you to the College of business and all of the resources and services that are available to you. But too, we're also going to bring in alumni, faculty, CEO, CFO, zan hiring authorities from all of the different concentration disciplines that we offer so that we can help you make an informed decision about what concentration.

Are concentrations you go into.

And so then, for example, let's say maybe you want to become a marketing major. That's a wonderful industry. A wonderful filled. But it is still important that you understand accounting and finance and management and technology, and that Foundation is what the business quarry is.

The third section is the business concentration section, and so in the College of business we offer ten different concentrations, and I'm going to go through those in a little more detail here in a moment. But basically the concentration that you choose will become your area of expertise. It will most likely be the industry that you will seek your first career in when you graduate, and all of those concentrations ranged from 21 to 24 credits.

And then the 4th category are electives. Electives are courses that, for the most part, we're not going to tell you what you have to do with them. They give you the opportunity to take the classes that you're really interested in that maybe are more relevant to your career path or industry, or that perhaps give you an additional credential. So most miners that seishu or only 21 credit, so you can easily do your business degree and get a minor in something at C, issue all within your 120 credit package.

You could also look at Interdisciplinary studies programs. You could look at doing a double concentration, about 16 to 18% of our business students choose to do 2 concentrations and the reason for that is some of these concentrations. The combination makes really good sense given what an individual persons career path and career goals maybe.

Also, some of these concentrations are maybe more fluid, and so there are good times. And then there are less good times within that industry. And so for example real estate. The real estate market fluctuates, and so when the Times are good, people are doing really good in the real estate industry. But when times are lean is sometimes nice to have an additional background to fall back on so that you could maybe find another job to carry you through until the real estate market comes back up.

So electives are to be used however you want. We also offer certificates. You can also use elective credit for internship opportunities, which we strongly recommend and also for education abroad experiences. Reality today is businesses global. Almost every business in the United States has some kind of a connection with the International Company or their product comes from abroad and so having some kind of an international experience. While you're an undergraduate student.

Can be very beneficial from a professional perspective.

The let's go through each of the 10 concentrations. I'm not going to go into great detail, but each of these slides you will see has the average starting salary. The job in Graduate School, offer rates, and then the internship and practicum rates. Also, we've listed a very small number of of types of careers that you could look at by going into that particular concentration now. By participating in today's event. We have also sent you a electronic.

Package of all of this information, and you're going to see very detailed information on each one of these concentrations in that packet.

Accounting is one of the concentrations that we do offer. It is a very popular concentration. The great thing about this concentration, as it does fully prepare a student to sit for the CPA exam in Colorado. Each state does have different requirements to qualify to sit for the CPA exam. Most states, however, do require 150 credits or a Masters degree. Now our undergraduate degree at Colorado State University is 120 credits.

So if you want to go into accounting and sit for the CPA exam, other two options and so probably about 50% of our students choose option one which is to delay graduation and maybe add a second or third concentration or a second major and accrue 150 credits graduating in five years and then their fully qualified to sit for the CPA exam and then the other 50% go on and pursue a Masters degree in accounting and so we do have.

Options for both of those and then also not all students want to become certified public accountants. There are a lot of other career paths and industries that you can go into through accounting and so we fully prepare students for that option as well.

The next concentration is computer information system, so this is one that can be a little confusing for folks because they get it confused with computer science. So computer science is typically career paths for that are typically going to be heavy programming, a designing and creating systems or apps, whatnot. Computer Information Systems is the business side of technology, and so our computer information systems students.

They have to know how to program and sometimes that is a career path that they choose to go. They know they have to know how to design, but they also have to understand the business side of it so people who go into computer information systems may become designers and developers, but they may also be folks who installed systems who maintain a systems who repair systems. They may be people who come in and train people on how to use new systems.

So they also may be people who sell technology, so CIS is a very diverse industry. And obviously you know, given as fast as technology is evolving today, this is a very lucrative concentration. It is also one that has an incredible job market. So computer mission systems if you're into technology could be a really good fit for you.

The next concentration we talked about is finance, and so in business we actually have four different areas within finance. We've got finance with a corporate option and so that would be working for a large Corporation, maybe 40 fifty 60,000 employees worldwide dealing with the financial aspect of that Corporation. We also offer finance with an investment analysis option. This basically teaches you how to work within the stock market within the stock system.

So we teach you how to buy and sell stocks, bonds, how to look at data, data analytics, and determine when might be a good time to sell a stock or buy a stock or what kind of stock to actually invest in.

We also have finance with the real estate option. Not to be confused with our real estate concentration finance with a real estate option is the financial aspect of a real estate venture. So let's say for example, you might want to buy a home someday and if you are not independently wealthy and cannot afford to pay for a home out right, you may need to apply for a loan. And so all of the loan, an mortgage paperwork and all of that is the financial aspect.

Of that real estate venture. And so there are all kinds of jobs available in finance with the real estate option. You can see some of them listed here. But as I said earlier, you can also go to the college business website and see a much, much bigger list for all of these different concentrations.

The 4th area in finance is a standalone concentration called financial planning. Many people actually want to help other people plan their financial futures, so investing preparing for retirement, life insurance, health insurance, all of those different types of financial planning are required to have a license. So you do have to be a licensed financial planner to be able to do this, and so this concentration prepares you to sit for the CFP licensure exam.

We also offer human resource management. This is the side of business that deals with human capital and so people who work in human resources tend to really enjoy working with people, but they may be recruiters for a company going out and recruiting people to come in and apply for positions. They may be the people doing interviews. They maybe the people hiring and firing. They would also be people who are dealing with employees benefits, retirement plans.

Insurance, all of that.

We also have international business. This is a relatively new concentration in our college and it is unique from all of the other nine that I have talked about or will be talking about. So international business is very popular because many of our students do want to work internationally in some shape or form after graduation and this is a great pathway to do that.

International business is different though in that it cannot be a standalone concentration, so you can only do international business as a second concentration. You have to choose an complete all of the requirements for one of the other concentrations in addition to international business, whereas all of the other nine concentrations are stand alone. You can choose to focus just on that concentration and graduate with just that concentration.

International business is also a really cool concentration because it has some requirements that will require you to either continue to take foreign language courses or to complete an international internship. Now, international internships do not necessarily mean that you're going up rod to complete that internship. You may be doing an international business internship in the United States and then we also have a requirements that could allow you to have a study abroad experience and education abroad experience.

And another country for a winter break for a summer break. Or for a fall or spring semester. And it could also include a semester at sea experience so very very popular concentration in the College of business.

Marketing is a wonderful concentration. Lot of our students choose to go into marketing. Marketing is a little bit different than what some people think, so a lot of people when they think of marketing, they think of the creative campaign design ad creation, side of marketing and that is a part of marketing. But that is not the marketing that we teach at Colorado State University. The marketing that we teach is more research based marketing, so it teaches you how to look at data.

Again, data analytics and to use that data to make good decisions for a company company may a chain may decide they want to open a new store in a community they would go in and pull data on. Average household income, average number of people who live in the household. What kind of products do the people in these households use, and use that data to determine whether or not that community could handle a new store in that community. They also use all of that data.

Side how much to charge for that product?

It doesn't do a company any good to bring in a product that that community cannot afford to purchase. So marketing looks at research data. Now if you are interested in that creative artistic side of marketing and you want the business degree, alot of our marketing majors will do a double major in marketing and graphic design. And that gives you the combination of experience that you need to be able to go out and become a really good market here, both from the research side and the creative artistic side.

Organization and Innovation Management is a great concentration. This is where our leadership programs reside. This is also where entrepreneurship program lives and so if you have an interest in managing people, motivating people to do their job to running a Department or a company starting your own company and managing it, organization and innovation management could be a really good concentration for you. It's a very diverse concentration. You're going to work with a lot of different.

Kinds of people and you're going to work with people from all kinds of disciplines that are available in industry. So this is a really popular concentration as well.

Now real estate. Again. This is different than the finance concentration with real estate option. Real estate truly is looking at the residential and commercial real estate industry. It prepares you to actually sit for an appraiser licensure or a broker licensure, allowing you to buy and sell property, both residential and commercial. And so this is a very popular concentration. It is also a concentration that a large number of these students.

Choose to do a double concentration again so that they have something to fall back on during lean times.

And then the 10th and final concentration is supply chain management. This is a very popular concentration supply. Chain management is the process of getting a product from, let's say an assembly line in China into a store in Fort Collins, Co. An ultimately into the hands of a customer. All of the decisions that are made along the way to get that product here is supply chain management and so supply chain management is a great concentration if you want to have some.

Connection internationally, if you like data if you like statistics. If you like crunching numbers, but if you also like working with people so this is one of those very diverse concentrations where you will do a lot of different things and work with a lot of different people. But again, a very popular concentration.

Now before I go on, I see there are a couple of questions, so it looks like Molly is asking a question. Since SAT scores are not required to get into see issue, are they required to get into the College of business? So again, no. So we are making test scores optional that is both for Colorado State University and the College of business. So if you do not have a test score, that's absolutely fine. We will look at all of the other indicators that I talked about so will look at your transcript.

And see what kinds of courses you took and what kind of grades you got in those specific courses. Mainly looking at math, statistics, composition, English. If you did take any business courses, I will also look more thoroughly at your extracurricular involvements. What did you do or what have you been doing to develop leadership skills and teamwork skills and cultural competency skills? So good question modeling.

OK, so let's move on. So I want to talk a little bit about what the students of the College of business look like and what not. So in the College of business we have about 2400 students pursuing the business degree. We're actually the largest major at CSU and the reason for that is because we only have one official major is business administration. But we are the 2nd to the smallest college, so we're a relatively small organization. You will definitely not be a number in our college. You will be known.

By your faculty and staff and fellow classmates. It will be up to you to choose to develop relationships with those folks, but you will be known an you will know people in the culture business who will be able to support you and guide you. So it's a small tight knit community. You will become friends with your classmates who will become friends and colleagues for the rest of your life. So it's a great great community. About 24 to 25% of our students identify as ethnically and racially diverse.

This is particularly important to us in the College of business because it's also particularly important to industry industry ansi issue in the College of business acknowledge and recognize that having a diverse workforce is really important. Having a diverse and different personalities. Different perspectives give companies an advantage, and so we intentionally go out and try to recruit people from a variety of different backgrounds so that we can bring all of those perspectives into the classroom.

And provide all of our students with a more enriched experience. So lot of resources available to support students of color, but also a lot of resources and support services available to help train all of our students on how to work with people who are perhaps different than themselves. That is a skill set that industry is looking for.

Also, about 18 to 20% of our business students identify as first generation. That means that neither of your parents ever earned a college degree. If you are at first generation student first, I just want to say congratulations. It is a very exciting thing to be a first generation student. It can also be very scary and intimidating. I myself was a first generation student and I can tell you that as challenging as it was, it completely changed my life. I live a probably a much better life today than I would have if I had not gotten a degree.

And I can also tell you that it has had a very positive impact on my entire family because I chose to go to college. I have been able to encourage and support other family members to follow suit and go to college as well. And so it's a great thing that you're doing. We have a lot of resources that are available for first generation students. So no, please know that you will not be alone if you do decide to join us.

Also, about 72% of our students identify.

I, as Colorado residents and about 23% of our students come from all over the rest of the United States and about 5% of our students are international coming from all around the world, international students are very important to us as well, because again, business is global, so we intentionally go out and recruit for international students to come here so that we again can have a much more enriched environment and so that international students can learn how to work with US students and so that US students can learn how to interact with and work with.

Students and folks from other countries. So we have a pretty diverse student population which is very exciting to us.

Now, as part of your college experience, academics are very important. You will want to be as strong of a student as you possibly can be, but you also have to balance that with developing a strong resume. This is especially important if you're going to be a business major and so developing a strong resume is what is going to get your foot in the door with a potential employer accompany it also is what will get you admitted into a graduate program of your choice, and so graduate programs.

And industry are looking for people with leadership skills, teamwork skills and cultural competency skills. I've mentioned this a couple of Times Now. Some of the ways that you can showcase those skills on your resume is through your extracurricular involvements, and so at CSU we have over 500 different clubs and organizations that students can participate in and in the College of business we have about 30. You can visit our college business website to see all 30 of those, but I've highlighted just a few here on this.

On this slide.

So we have the Global Business Network, which is a student club or international students and for domestic students who want to interact with international students and or who may want to work internationally after they graduate. So this is a social organization, but they do bring in guest speakers from industry all around the world, so great opportunities for you to network with people who could open doors for you later on.

We also have the business diversity and Leadership Alliance. This is a student organization that teaches students about diversity, equity and inclusion, particularly as it relates to and as it is associated with business, an industry. So if you're interested in learning more about diversity, equity and inclusion, this could be a great organization for you. We also have the Latin X Business Association. This is particularly for Latin identifying Hispanic Chicano Mexican American students, but it's actually for.

Any student who is interested in Latin X issues, particularly as they are related to business.

We also do have collegiate DECA and also collegiate FBLA, so if you want to continue competing at the collegiate level in those organizations, we would have that available for you. We also have rock, solid stewards and so this is our student ambassador program in the College of business. If you like your experience at CSU, your freshman and sophomore year, perhaps your junior and senior year, you might apply to be an ambassador in the College of business. We also have amazing peer to peer mentoring program. This is where we can pair you as an incoming first year.

Freshman with a junior or senior business student for a one year commitment. It's a friendship, but it's also a support system. It's a way for your mentor to guide you and perhaps help you avoid potholes that exist in higher education. The great thing about this program is I created this program about 20 years ago and we're still in touch with alumni from that program and 20 years later, those pairs are still connected there still friends. They stay together, they celebrate.

Holidays together so it can be an incredible opportunity for you to meet somebody who could become a long term friend.

We also have an incredible go abroad program global opportunities program in the College of business. So if you want to have an international experience, we can help you to have that. As I mentioned earlier, we send more students abroad than any other major at CSU and having a broad experience doesn't have to delay graduation at all and it can be very cost effective. So don't assume that you cannot afford to go.

We have some programs that are actually less expensive for this semester that you're abroad than it would be for the semester that you were at CSU. So again, don't assume that you cannot afford it. Definitely talk to your advisor once you get here, and we can help you figure out what you can do.

I'd also like to talk real quickly about the support systems that we offer in the College of business. All of our business majors are assigned a full time professional advisor. Our faculty do not advise students or faculty are here to guide and support students on your career path. Your career choices, your major choices, but for academic advising, helping you with curriculum, academic skills, graduation preparation and personal life issues, you will have a full time professional advisor.

You will work with that person for your freshman, sophomore and junior year, and then you will be transferred to a senior advisor for your last year and that senior advisor kind of helps you put the final finishing touches on your degree and make sure that everything is good to go so that when you think you're graduating, you are actually graduating.

And so academic advising is a huge resource that we do offer our students.

Another big resource that we offer our students is the career Management Center. Now most business students are earning a business degree because they need this degree to get to where it is that they want to go professionally. And so we acknowledge that now Colorado State University has a Career Center for all students at the College of business, has its own career management center just for business majors. And so we have a team occur. Counselors half of them are out working with employers all over the world, getting them to come to campus to talk to our students and offer our students.

Internships and career opportunities and then the other half of our career counseling team is here to work with our students to prepare you to interact with those companies so they will help you with personal branding. You can sign up for mock interviews so you can actually interview with an H. Our representative from a real company and then they give you feedback on what you did well and what you might need to work on to do a better interview the next time. They also will help you with resume and cover letter writing. We can also match you up with a professional mentor.

A professional mentor would be somebody who has a business degree already completed and has been working out an industry for two or three years who would like to be a professional mentor for you?

And they are also here to help you with career search and strategies. So it is something that you need to strategically plan for. You cannot just wait until your last semester and hope that somebody offers you a job. You do need to develop a strategy and so our management center will help you do that. The other great thing is that this career management center is a resource that will be available to you for the rest of your life if you graduate from the College of business. So most of you realistically are going to end up having three or four different careers in your lifetime.

Looking for the first karere while you're wrapping up your undergraduate degree is a little bit easier because you're right here on campus and you've got all of these resources available to you. But five or six years later, when it's time for you to look for your second clear, it's not so easy to do that on your own, but you don't need to do that on your own. You'll contact us and we will help you find your next career.

Now all of the resources and services that we offer to you culminate with some pretty incredible odata. First one is retention, so we have a 94% retention rate from freshman year to sophomore year, and then overall we have an 89% retention rate, so 89% of the students who joined us in the College of business will graduate from the College of business.

We also have one of the highest 4, five and six year graduation rates, not just at Colorado State University, but in the entire state of Colorado. So 70% of our students graduate in four years, and at the six year mark, 89% of our students are graduating now. It's important for you to understand that there are reasons why students don't graduate in four years, and generally speaking at Colorado State University, it's not because our students can't get into the courses they need is because they're making decisions.

That are actually going to help them professionally, so if you think back when I was talking about accounting to sit for the CPA exam, alot of our accounting majors will delay graduation at a second major or a second or third concentration so they can accrue 150 credits to qualify to sit for the CPA exam. So a lot of those accounting students will graduate in four and a half or five years. That may be a good decision for them to help them to move to the next level of their career plan or their career strategy.

We also acknowledge that a lot of students have to work more today than ever before to pay their way through college, and so some students may be cannot take as heavy. Of course, load so they may have to slow down their degree so they can work so they can work more to help pay for that degree completion. And so there are variety of different reasons why students don't graduate in four years and we will support them as long as it is a good reason. If it's not, we will be encouraging them to get back on track for a four year graduation.

Also want to give you a listing of some of the companies who hire our students. Are students go to work in all types of industries. They go to work for small mom and pop startups entrepreneurial ventures. They go to mid size and large corporations in Colorado all throughout the US and we actually do play students all around the.

This is just a very small listing of some of the companies you can go to our College of business website and you can see a much more exhaustive list.

And so now I do want to take a moment and answer any questions. If you have any questions, please post those in chat. We are also going to have one of our students, Peyton, join us so Peyton. If you would like to come in while we're waiting for students to ask questions and so feel free to ask me questions. But you can also ask our student questions and so Peyton is going to be coming in here in just a moment.

And I'm not sure Peyton maybe having some difficulty getting into the.

Presentation.

Peyton are you there?

Pain may be having some technical difficulties, and so while he is coming into the presentation, I am not seeing any new questions that have come in, but one of the things up. It looks like Molly does have a question. Thanks Molly. Can you double major in graphic design with?

Any of the business concentrations absolutely so if you want to do a double major in business administration and graphic design, it doesn't matter which concentration in business you choose. Now obviously you may want to pick a concentration in business that is relevant to you. That is something that you can become passionate about and or is relevant to the career path that you want to go down. But yes, so you can pick any one of the concentrations that are standalone concentrations.

It would definitely be a little more challenging for you to complete a double major in business and graphic design with a double concentration, so international business and one of the other concentrations may delay graduation a little bit for you. With a double major in graphic design, but a single concentration in business with a double major in graphic design very likely would keep you on track for a four year graduation plan. Good question, Molly.

Looks like Katniss don't have problems coming into the presentation, so please any ask more questions. I will say that I'm going to put the slide.

So this is my contact information after today. If you have more questions, please feel free to reach out to me via my email address. If you would like to have a one on one Microsoft Teams conversation with me, or perhaps you and your family would like to have a conversation with me, I will be happy to do that. So just reach out to me at anytime with any questions and I'm happy to do that for you.

And so unfortunately, I apologize. It looks like painting is not going to be able to join us today. But again, if you do have any questions or if you would like to be able to have a conversation with one of our student ambassadors, reach out to me and I'll connect you with one of our student embassador so you can ask some questions from a student perspective. I will be honest with you. I'm very biased. I did my undergraduate degree at Colorado State University and both of my Masters degrees at Colorado State University. I believe green and gold.

So sometimes you know I can be a little overzealous, so sometimes it might be nice for you to be able to hear from a student perspective why they chose the issue, why they chose business, and where they're going with that degree. So if you would like to do that, just let me know and I'll be happy to connect you with one of our student ambassadors.

And so, with that said, I'm going to say thank you for joining us today. It was a pleasure sharing with you all of the great things that we have to offer in the College of business. I wish you the very best of luck in your decision for a college anfora major. I know it is not an easy decision, but it is a very important decision because whatever institution you choose will most likely become a part of your life for the rest of your life. So good luck to you. Reach out to me with any questions, take care and stay safe.