From boardrooms to the early days of a new start-up, great leaders all have one thing in common: gaining the skills necessary to lead.

The business world is constantly evolving with new emerging technologies, obstacles, and innovations. As the highly dynamic world of business continues to shift, great leaders are ready to tackle any challenge by equipping themselves with the foundational skills, resilience, and motivation it takes to thrive in whatever endeavor lies ahead.

Great leaders aren’t just born, they are built. With skill, time, and experience, exceptional leaders take initiative to skyrocket a team to success.

A Bachelor of Science in Business Administration helps lay the foundation necessary to expand your career through the leadership skills required to transform your future and the future of innovation in business.

What Leadership Skills Can I Build with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration?

  • Communication

Communication is key. Successful communicators encompass some of the most valuable skills applicable across any field. Innovative communicators know great work requires a strong team, and by efficiently collaborating, presenting abilities, and fostering a welcoming work environment where team members’ ideas are encouraged, heard, and debated upon, they breed vast innovation that propels companies to new heights.

  • Emotional Intelligence

Emotionally intelligent individuals can efficiently manage their own emotions and understand the emotions of those around them. Through self-awareness, self-regulation, understanding body language, and strong social skills, emotionally intelligent individuals can see greater success in the workplace, in interpersonal relationships, and by working effectively as a team to achieve their goals. Highly emotionally intelligent individuals can navigate conflict with ease by functioning with empathy; they can efficiently communicate under pressure, mitigate misunderstandings, and think objectively to calmly and intelligently find the best solution and keep their best foot forward.

  • Comprehensive Business Literacy

Successful leaders need to be equipped with a comprehensive understanding of the business landscape inside and out. Knowledge in marketing, finances, operations, strategic planning, brand awareness, and the general market of their field, leaders are able to promote team performance, increase productivity, generate profits, and bring transformative ideas that reimagine the future of business.

  • Problem solving

Businesses exist to solve for their customers. Efficient business leaders mirror this mindset by understanding that exceptional problem-solving skills are essential to success. Just as you work to find the solutions your customers need, great problem solvers also work to remove obstacles through strategic planning, identifying the root causes, and effectively implementing solutions to meet their goals.  

  • Networking

When it comes to business, it’s not always what you know, but who you know. Networking brings valuable, mutually beneficial relationships across industries, customer bases and other professionals. Leaders with strong networks greatly expand their notability, visibility and pave the way for transformative opportunities.

  • Resilience

You often hear some of the most successful leaders in business say they have heard the reply “no” hundreds of times before getting the opportunity that skyrocketed them into great success. Resilience is vital in the ever-changing world of business; persistence, motivation, and the ability to pivot can be the deciding factor between bankruptcy and massive success.

Why SDSU Global Campus?

The Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Online program from SDSU Global Campus is designed by the renowned SDSU Fowler College of Business, a nationally ranked top-50 public undergraduate business program, according to U.S. News & World Report. This program also is fully accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

Students gain a solid foundational knowledge of business and develop essential leadership skills students can use to leverage their network, understanding of international markets, digital marketing, and the most pressing issues facing businesses today to become high-level leaders in their fields.

“One of my favorite courses was Writing in Business Settings, as I enjoyed the projects completed through the course, including both individual and team projects,” said Andrew Acosta, who earned his Business Administration degree through SDSU Global Campus. “It is surprising and great to see how online groups can be arranged for projects, as I expected them to primarily be assigned individually, as in my previous online courses prior to transferring to SDSU Global Campus. This showed how we can still connect with other students and collaborate on projects even if we’re not face-to-face.”

Get the degree that can help transform your future with flexibility through our 100% asynchronous courses. You don’t have to sacrifice high quality education for a program to meet your demanding schedule with coursework led by expert faculty from the nationally ranked SDSU’s Fowler College of Business.

Your leadership skills are increasingly in demand. In a 2024 report, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a 7% projected job growth within the next decade, over 3 million job postings within the last year, and an average salary of $79,518 annually for a B.S. In Business Administration graduates nationally.

Join esteemed SDSU’s Fowler College of Business alumni like James D. Sinegal, former CEO of Costco, Linda Land, former Chairman and CEO of Jack in the Box Inc., Dee Coffman, founding CFO of Qualcomm, and many more who continuously inspire community members with exceptional leadership skills, business practices, and innovative advancements that have helped shape the dynamic world of business.

Are you ready to redefine what’s possible by equipping yourself with the skills you need to take the next step in your career? Discover what’s possible with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration online at SDSU Global Campus.