Planning, organizing, leading, taking initiative … does that sound like you? If you want a career where leading others and managing change effectively are your keys to advancement, look no further than management. At job resources site Salary.com, on a given day, there are more than 1,000 available jobs in the “management” category and several hundred jobs in the “executive” category, with salaries ranging from $46,832 to $792,493 annually.

Why? Because all organizations have a hierarchy of leadership and human resources to manage. Organizations can only succeed when they successfully find, motivate, and effectively lead talented employees.

Your degree will prepare you for management in both goods-producing and service enterprises for fluency in the management of systems, personnel and/or quality. The job sector is expanding faster than many other occupations, and it is a competitive job market. You’ll gain the strategic communication and leadership tools to run teams, divisions and entire companies.

Management is a major program of study offered in Corvallis and online through Ecampus.

Graduates from the college's management program have become marketing managers, sales managers, project managers, consultants, web developers, systems' analysts, chief operation officers and more.

Adecco
Adidas
Amazon
Boeing
Daimler
Dell
Deloitte
Indeed
Intel

Nike
Odom
Portland General Electric
Providence Health Services
Reser's Fine Foods
Salesforce
Schnitzer
Target
Umpqua Bank