Management Analysis

Also known as management consulting, this field involves analyzing business operations and offering strategies to improve efficiency, reduce costs, or enhance performance. Professionals solve complex organizational problems, often involving restructuring or process optimization. The role is largely office-based or at client sites, with frequent travel and team collaboration.
Common Job Titles: Business Analyst Management Analyst Operations Analyst Process Improvement Specialist Strategy Consultant
Related Academic Programs
Wondering what you can do with a major in business economics? The answer—practically anything and everything.
With the B.S. in Business Economics from Penn State Behrend, you’ll get the “big picture” skills needed to analyze and understand the world around you—making you a valuable asset for any industry.
The Certificate in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with Oracle will instruct you in Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning software, an integrated multi-module application software that supports business processes. Oracle is one of the top ERP vendors and the skills gained by learning this software will allow you to become more valuable in the current marketplace. Oracle certification is valuable to hiring managers who want to distinguish among candidates for critical IT positions.
This program enables students to become proficient in Oracle Supply Chain and prepares them for the Oracle Supply Chain Certified Professional Consultant exams. Students who complete this certification will have the ability to implement and support eBusiness Supply Chain applications.
SAP is the world’s largest enterprise application software company, with more than 170,000 customers in more than 120 countries. The certificate program in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with SAP helps set our graduates apart from other business and management information systems graduates when gaining successful employment. Based on a Central Michigan University study, the average starting salary of SAP graduates was $5,250 greater than non-SAP graduates.
The goal of this program is to use SAP technology as a tool to help teach business concepts. Instead of studying “cold” textbook exercises at the end of a given textbook chapter, students directly interact with a real business, executing real functions and transactions in a life-like business-to-business simulation.
Penn State Behrend offers the innovative interdisciplinary-based Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ENTI) minor to students in any major.
The minor equips students to develop an entrepreneurial mindset; think critically and “outside the box” to sense opportunities; develop value propositions; and create sustainable value in fast-paced socio-technological environments. The minor at Penn State Behrend currently offers the New Ventures Cluster, although additional clusters will be made available.
Our world runs on data, and the people who best understand it—and who can explain it—are essential to any organization. With the B.S. in Functional Data Analytics, you’ll learn to analyze and interpret the numbers, but also discover how to clearly convey that information to others.
Do you have a brain for business as well as an interest in engineering? With Penn State Behrend’s B.S. in Interdisciplinary Business with Engineering Studies (IBE), you don’t have to choose.
The program combines studies in both disciplines to create strategic thinkers who can recognize and resolve operational and technical challenges—making our IBE graduates valuable employees who can speak to both sides of an organization.
In our increasingly interdependent world, events happening halfway around the globe can affect our communities here at home. That means decision-makers with global knowledge are in demand to conduct business that can cross borders.
With the B.S. in International Business from Penn State Behrend, you’ll develop a broad intercultural competence to go along with your business knowledge, positioning you to flourish no matter where your business happens to be.
The management information systems minor can open new career options for students, increase their market value, and improve their chances for advancement.
Take your career to the next level with an MBA from Penn State Behrend.
Our MBA program draws students from a wide range of fields, including management, banking, insurance, engineering, nursing, the sciences, and the liberal arts. Whether you’re looking to change careers, get ahead at your current job, or be more attractive to prospective employers, you can get ahead with our MBA.
Effective projects don’t just happen; they are coordinated by effective project managers. The ability to bring in large, multifunctional projects on time and on budget requires a unique set of skills in leadership, resource planning, and management. This 30-credit graduate program helps working professionals to develop the tools needed to carry out these complex organizational activities.
If you’re passionate about using data to solve problems, then you might benefit from adding a certificate in Project and Supply Chain Analytics to your degree. This 12-credit certificate program takes an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating project management, supply chain management, and data analytics to build your skills in managing the flow of goods, services, and information.
The certificate program is designed to help you learn to apply analytical methods to find solutions and insights needed for key decision making within an organization. The certificate provides a foundation that can be used to boost your portfolio in a number of fields, including management, data analytics, or business intelligence, or to help prepare you for further graduate studies.
The online Graduate Certificate in Project Management is an interdisciplinary, 12-credit program that uses problem-based learning to provide a strong foundation in project management theory and practice. The program is AACSB accredited, so your certificate will be a well-respected credential.
Behind all sports—whether pro or youth leagues, competitive or just for fun—are business decisions that must be made. Administrators are needed to schedule games, manage facilities, plan events, market teams, order equipment, arrange rosters, and sign contracts.
The 15-credit interdisciplinary Certificate in Sports Administration from Penn State Behrend will introduce you to different aspects of sports administration, enhancing your portfolio and expanding your career opportunities.

