Business Technology (BS)

UAT’s cutting-edge Bachelor of Science Business Technology degree focuses in the areas of entrepreneurship and product development to prepare students for tech startups and high demand technology management careers in today’s tech-driven business world. With a dynamic and synergistically chosen curriculum, our Business Technology degree students learn a unique combination of technical, strategic, critical, financial, analytical and managerial skills. These business technology-centered leadership and management skills will allow graduates to excel in the high demand areas of business management, global business, innovation, technology product development and project management in tech startup, private and public sector firms.

From day one, the degree candidates from this business degree program will learn to be business champions leading tech start up or new product development teams from within this top technology college’s complete array of degree programs: Digital Arts, Advancing Business Technologies, Game Studies, Hardware Creation, Cyber Security and Programming. This Business Technology degree is designed to spawn and create the perfect environment for the next generation of start up and innovation leaders such as Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page or Sergey Brin. UAT’s Business Technology degree develops students with the necessary foundational critical expertise in the underlying disciplines of product development and all of the little pieces of knowledge, tech and business wisdom required to bring new innovation to market.

Business Technology degree students will be prepared to lead business and tech start ups with specific courses tailored to the growing unification, convergence and new thinking of advancing technologies and business management. Students enrolled in our Business Technology degree will build the necessary skills to be fluent in business models, regulatory issues, business development methodology, managing cross-functional and international teams, strategic management, innovation and “go-to-market strategies” driven by modern analytics and metrics. They learn product innovation by developing an understanding of the market to optimize product adoption and the product life cycle.

Business Technology students actually apply their experience as business leaders of the UAT student innovation teams to the real world as makers. Not only do these Business Technology degree students learn it, they actually do it with UAT’s vast tools and resources that allow Business Technology degree students to make or create tangible things from start to finish in any one of UAT’s innovation labs and apply them in the business world.

By incorporating the technical as well as the financial and data-driven marketing elements into a product’s development strategy, Business Technology degree students will learn the project management skills and strategic business principles now required to leverage the new business economy driven by advancing technology. Students with this entrepreneurial and leadership focused tech business degree will also learn process innovation to effectively map the structure and process of an organization in order to understand how it works as a complete system, as well as analyze its technological and business methodology including its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

Graduates of this advancing business technology program are sought for their strong background in product innovation, tech start up thinking and makers mentalities. These qualities will be infused into the degree candidates as well as the required business management disciplines and frameworks. Business Technology degree candidates at UAT learn how to bring new products to market, drive cross discipline teams with executive project management skills and apply for patents – top level skills separating them from the crowd.

With a degree in Business Technology from UAT, graduates become tech savvy leaders, fully prepared to lead teams and take on managerial and executive roles within the industry’s top business and technology sectors to innovate product and process innovation.