2025-2026 Academic Catalog
Welcome to Virginia Tech! We are excited that you are here planning your time as a Hokie.
Welcome to Virginia Tech! We are excited that you are here planning your time as a Hokie.
Students in the Management major are guided by world-class faculty to prepare for careers in industry-leading and highly successful organizations. Our courses build strong foundations in fundamental management processes and prepare students to drive and lead organizations to sustainable and profitable growth in an increasingly complex world. We equip students with the mindset, approaches, and tools to succeed in a global business environment and the ability to translate disruptive change into business opportunities. Our courses and curriculum emphasize critical thinking, innovative problem solving, data analytics, ethical reasoning, persuasive communication, diversity & inclusion and interpersonal and team effectiveness. These skills position Pamplin Management graduates for future success in a wide variety of high-paying careers or as entrepreneurs. We offer four majors: ,Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Technology Management (EIT), Human Resource Management (HRM) ,Management Consulting & Analytics (MCA), and Management (MGT).
Management majors add considerable value to the organizations that employ them. Great managers in any business act as force multipliers, increasing the output generated by the people they work with and the resources available to them. Management majors, their teams and their organizations do this by finding ways to help organizations work smarter. Our core curriculum helps students develop the awareness needed to identify new entrepreneurial opportunities, improve organizational processes, use analytics to support evidence-based decisions, and effectively manage projects in support of organizational change and improvement.
Students may choose to minor in Entrepreneurship and/or Organizational Leadership. Students can also participate in paid and for-credit internships, career-focused clubs and student-led extracurricular activities. An emphasis on developing employable skills is further supported by course-based and one-on-one career planning, as well as by proving mastery of skills through earning professional certifications.
These majors are designed to provide students critical skills targeted toward potential future career paths in the following areas.
This major allows students to pave their own way through our management courses. This major supports personalized selection of emphasis. For example, students interested in Management and Sustainability can chose the Management Major and select a path of Department, College and University courses around managing sustainability issues. Students interested in Management and cybersecurity have the same option. In short, it can be a major for students with the drive to work in or for organizations and their own passion about how to do that.
Students develop an entrepreneurial mindset and the related organizational skills to identify problems that can be converted into opportunities, attract and deploy resources in pursuit of those opportunities, and to lead through innovation in both new and established companies. This major is designed for students who are considering starting their own businesses or who want to play a key role in making existing businesses more innovative and entrepreneurial.
This major prepares general managers or individuals interested in a career in the human resources field with the knowledge and skills necessary to systematically manage people to achieve group and organizational objectives and to sustain organizational effectiveness. Students will gain knowledge and skills in areas such as HR strategy, recruitment, training & development, performance management, diversity & inclusion, and compensation & benefits. This major will not only prepare students for careers in Human Resource Management but will also equip future business managers and leaders with the talent management mindsets and tools necessary to acquire, retain, and manage people effectively.
Students develop knowledge, human-centric and analytical skills to break down complex strategic problems and develop robust and innovative solutions, enabling them to successfully pursue careers in management consulting. Critical skills and competencies taught in this major will also benefit future managers and leaders to drive success in a complex environment that relies heavily on data, analytics, project management and the power of high-performing teams.
Students from majors across the university (including Management majors) may also earn any of two minors offered through the Department of Management. These minors are the Organizational Leadership minor and the Entrepreneurship - New Venture Growth minor.
The Pathways Minor in Organizational Leadership is open to all Virginia Tech students with at least a 2.5 GPA at Virginia Tech. The curriculum provides students with courses and experiences necessary to serve as more effective leaders within their organizations. Each student takes courses to improve their competencies across four areas: creativity and innovation; critical and strategic thinking; intercultural communication; and holistic thinking and ethical reasoning. Students also participate in a leadership field experience which enables them to develop areas specific to their own needs. The leadership minor consists for eighteen hours of study, including six hours of management courses, nine hours of electives, and three hours of experiential activity. As a Pathways minor, students can count courses within the minor toward a student’s Pathways to General Education requirements.
The Entrepreneurship-New Venture Growth minor equips students with the knowledge and skills to create, build, and lead growth-oriented new ventures in technology-rich environments. The minor consists of eighteen credit hours of study and includes a variety of interdisciplinary courses that explore key topics such as business model design and analysis, technology/digital entrepreneurship, project management, and innovative product design and technology commercialization strategies.
Head: Devi R. Gnyawali
Assistant Department Head: Ron Poff
Pamplin Professors of Management: C. E. Devers and D. R. Gnyawali
Strickler Professor: C. Porter
Professor: K.D. Carlson and W. J. Becker
Visiting Professor: B. Tyler and Ayenda Kemp
Associate Professors: J. B. Arthur, D. J. Beal, W. J. Becker, D. E. Hatfield, R. A. Hunt, P. Kumar, K. A. Schnatterly, P. S. Thompson, D. M. Townsend, A. K. Ward Bartlett and A. Whitaker
Assistant Professors: K. S. Awate, K. Brownell, J. E. Lewis, M. Stallkamp, and M. L. White
Collegiate Assistant Professor:
Collegiate Associate Professor: C. M. Courtney, J.J. Simpson, and C.C Tseng
Associate Professor of Practice: L. Anderson, D. R. Buengel, E. C. Jamison, N. Mer, R. Poff, A. J. Reed, A. Whitaker, and D. J. Williamson
Assistant Professor of Practice: C. L. Boyette, M. E. Deck, C. D. Hopkins, P. Kiratikosolrak, S. Matuszak, L. T. Raschke, J. D. Roark, W. A. Schaudt and K. Slagel
Instructors: A. L. Beleny
Affiliated Faculty: M. Singal, D. Stone, and E. Stone-Romero
Emeritus Faculty: L. D. Alexander, T. W. Bonham, A. T. Cobb, J. L. French, J. R. Lang, R. M. Madigan, S. E. Markham, K. F. Murrmann, J. F. Robinson, J. M. Shepard, W. J. Smith, C. U. Stephens L. Teagarden, and R. E. Wokutch
Career Advisor: Koehler Slagel and Laura Raschke
Business Leadership Center Director: R. A. Poff
Integrated Security Education and Research Center Director: J. J. Simpson
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