Management Major and Management Consulting Minor
Where Relationships, Evidence, and Leadership Meet.
Management isn't just a title. It's a set of human skills, including building trusting relationships, developing adaptive talent, leading high-performing teams, exercising sound judgment, and driving positive change. In short, it’s the human advantage in an era defined by artificial intelligence. Loyola’s management major prepares you to put these skills into practice from your very first role as a coordinator, analyst, consultant, or team member. You’ll understand how organizations really work, how people perform at their best, and how to make things happen through others.
Every management program will tell you that people matter. Loyola’s AACSB-accredited program will show you why and how to foster a human-centered workplace. Our faculty are active scholars whose research spans the full range of what makes organizations work, from the relationships, belonging, and team dynamics that help people thrive to the innovation, sustainability, and strategic thinking that help organizations succeed. You won’t just learn frameworks; you’ll learn from the people generating the evidence behind them.
Courses in organizational behavior, talent management, teamwork, innovation, sustainability management, global business, and strategic management, plus a hands-on consulting practicum, prepare you to add immediate value across human resource management, management consulting, hospitality management, nonprofit management, healthcare management, project management, and beyond.
Why should you study management at Loyola?
Rooted in Relationships
The science of how relationships, trust, belonging, and recognition shape performance. You'll learn to build the conditions where people thrive — from day one.
Built for Leadership
The frameworks to understand organizations in their full complexity. You’ll learn to move forward with purpose, clarity, and confidence to lead through uncertainty.
Backed by Evidence
The structured approach to diagnosing complex business challenges and turning data, research, and rigorous analysis into real solutions. You’ll learn to frame problems, build evidence-based recommendations, and communicate findings effectively.
Upon graduation you’ll be prepared demonstrate a set of human-centered skills for meaningful, future-ready leadership including:
Relationship Building
Create, strengthen, and sustain productive professional relationships. Collaborate effectively, build trust across teams, communicate respectfully, and leverage diverse perspectives to achieve shared goals.
Creative Problem-Solving
Generate innovative and practical solutions to complex challenges. Think critically and creatively, connect ideas across disciplines, and develop solutions that create value for organizations and society.
Cultural Intelligence
Work effectively across diverse cultures, identities, and perspectives. Approach differences with openness, adapt communication across contexts, and leverage diversity to foster collaboration and innovation.
Ethical Decision-Making
Make thoughtful, principled decisions that consider organizational goals alongside broader social, environmental, and human consequences. Act with integrity, accountability, and ethical responsibility.
All programs based in the Management & Organizations department are designed to help students demonstrate a set of human-centered skills for meaningful, future-ready leadership. While individual courses may emphasize certain skills more than others, all are cultivated throughout the course of study. Explore the full list of core competencies and what they mean in an AI-driven work environment.
The skills you develop here apply everywhere organizations exist. You'll graduate understanding how organizations work and the tools to create, implement, and evaluate solutions across any environment you walk into.
Whether you start your career in consulting, step into an HR team, join a startup, or lead a nonprofit, the versatility of this degree means you're never locked into one path.
| Career Path | What You'll Do |
|---|---|
| Management Consulting | Structured problem-solving, client communication, analytical reasoning |
| Human Resources | Talent acquisition, organizational development, employee experience |
| Hospitality Management | Guest experience design, team leadership, service quality, operational excellence |
| Healthcare Management | Patient experience, cross-functional team coordination, workforce development |
| Entrepreneurship | Building teams, managing innovation, navigating early-stage growth |
| Nonprofit & Social Sector | Mission-driven leadership, stakeholder management, sustainable strategy |
| Operations & Strategy | Cross-functional coordination, change management, organizational design |
| Government & Public Sector | Policy implementation, public administration, civic leadership |
| Project Management | Scope planning, stakeholder communication, team coordination, delivering on time and on budget |
Recent Graduate Placements
Recent management graduates have secured positions across a remarkable range of functions, industries, and organizations including:
- Accenture
- PwC
- JP Morgan Chase
- KPMG
- Morgan Stanley
- Microsoft
- The World Bank
- Under Armour
- Exelon
- Northrop Grumman
- T. Rowe Price
- Stanley Black & Decker
- Brown Advisory
- NFL Players Association
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
- Indeed.com
- TEKsystems
- Maryland State & U.S. Federal Government
- Legg Mason
- 1-800-Flowers
- Advertising.com
- Consumer Reports
- Yelp
Featured Management Courses
Management
Examine how organizations create value through people by exploring motivation, job performance, teamwork, leadership, and organizational culture. Develop skills through cases, discussions, experiential exercises, and collaborative projects.
Managing Talent
Learn to recognize and address the human capital issues managers face. You will consider labor market conditions, talent analytics, and performance management factors operating in the workplace.
Managing Teams
Discover concepts and techniques for how to effectively engage in collaborative behaviors, set conditions for effective teamwork, manage high-performance teams, and facilitate flexible, responsive team solutions to problems.
Management Consulting Practicum
Develop your ability to diagnose complex business problems, formulate strategic solutions, and present recommendations to real clients using a structured problem-solving framework.
Also available: Management & Psychology
What drives people at work? Why do some teams thrive while others struggle? The interdisciplinary
major in Management and Psychology puts those questions at the center of your education.
By combining organizational theory with the science of human behavior, you'll build
an unusually deep foundation for careers in human resource management, organizational
development, and human capital consulting — or for graduate study in Industrial/Organizational
Psychology or Organizational Behavior. Students should declare this major by their
sophomore year.
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Rankings & Accolades
Loyola's business and management programs consistently earn top national rankings.
Niche
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
The Wall Street Journal/College Pulse
Faculty Experts
Learn from scholars who are shaping the field.
Scholar-teachers
Our faculty are active researchers publishing in leading academic journals — and they bring that expertise directly to their teaching. You'll learn from scholars who don't just know the field; they're shaping it, with a genuine personal investment in your success.
Executives in Residence
Our executives in residence bring significant industry knowledge and experience to their teaching, student advising, and mentorship — connecting the classroom directly to real-world global practice.
Faculty Research Spotlight
Loyola's curriculum is grounded in active organizational scholarship, including Professor John Michel's research on how supportive leadership, workplace fun, and genuine connection reduce loneliness, stress, and burnout — and foster the engagement and well-being that great organizations are built on. This isn't just theory: it's the foundation of how we teach leadership, talent, and teams.The management major is part of the Sellinger School’s Management & Organizations Department
John W. Michel
Department Chair
Management & Organizations Department
Sellinger Hall 413
410-617-5995
jwmichel@loyola.edu
Debra Mitchell
Program Assistant
Sellinger Hall 418
410-617-2357
dmitchell4@loyola.edu