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Freeman College of Management
At Bucknell's Kenneth W. Freeman College of Management, the best learning comes from experience. From day one, you'll put bold ideas to work on real-world business challenges.
Launch your own company with Bucknell seed money or manage a portion of the University's endowment valued in the millions. Explore your future by going inside the New York Stock Exchange and Silicon Valley's leading tech firms.
$79,028
average starting salary
Be in high demand
See how the invaluable experience of a management education in a liberal arts environment and a thriving alumni network will prepare you to enjoy and excel in meaningful work when you leave Bucknell.
93%
secured opportunities within nine months of graduation
Business School Podcast Episode
There is a special community here I wouldn't have at a bigger school. I knew it was a place that would help me develop my entrepreneurial and leadership skills.
Mikey Brandt '26, markets, innovation & design
Your path to success
Analyze the next transformative business strategy. Design the product that changes lives for the better. Forge your own path.
In any of our innovative majors you'll explore, engage and develop invaluable skills, and our award-winning faculty will guide you as you navigate your journey to becoming business leaders, marketing experts and bold thinkers.
Play a pivotal role
Accounting
Accounting majors learn more than numbers. With the diverse foundation of analytical, technical and communication skills, you'll help people and organizations identify creative and morally responsible solutions.
Reveal the potential
Business Analytics
On the path to becoming analysts and advisors, Business Analytics majors learn to transform data into key insights and turn those insights into strategies that launch a company into success.
Surpass limitations
Finance
With experience in investment banking, wealth management, portfolio analysis and corporate finance, you'll help people and companies reach and surpass their goals.
Create your own path
Management & Organizations
Focus on entrepreneurship, global management, human resource management, management consulting or managing for sustainability — or choose courses that prepare you to achieve your unique goals.
Design solutions for everyone
Markets, Innovation & Design
Learn to recognize what consumers want, learn how to determine what businesses need and design products that bring the two together.
Experiences that set you apart
Management 101
Do more than study companies — create them
This groundbreaking experience (pioneered at Bucknell) puts students in control of their own company.
Learn about business, communication and collaboration, and discover the fulfilling experience of bringing an idea to life to meet a real need in Management 101.
Management 101 is a foundational course for anybody who wants to learn how to run a small business, how to bring a product to market, and how to believe in where you're going.
Alex Nowlin '14, CEO of USCAPE
Internships & Fellowships
Step out of the classroom
We don't just bring the real world into the classroom, we make sure our students get hands-on experience in the real world.
With access to a broad range of fellowships and internships, students gain the skills that set them apart when they leave Bucknell.
Go beyond
Explore the world
Apply what you're learning in the classroom to opportunities in the real world as you explore it. Management-focused study abroad options will take you to places like Dublin, Ireland; Sydney, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand and Singapore.
Your classroom is everywhere
Guidance from mentors, diverse internship and fellowship opportunities, access to industry trips and lectures from real-world professionals are all available to you in the Freeman College of Management.
Become an entrepreneur
Design, develop and pitch your entrepreneurial venture in Bucknell’s annual BizPitch Competition. With support from the Perricelli-Gegnas Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, student entrepreneurs compete for seed money that will bring their ideas to life.
A Bucknell education is just amazing in terms of preparing you for the world, preparing you for work, preparing you for anything.
Jerimaha McClain '26, management and organizations
Support for success
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The CCA is here to help you navigate every aspect of internships, jobs, graduate school applications and more.
Center for Career Advancement
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Our Career Search Accelerators provide personalized, hands-on guidance and one-on-one coaching to support you in your career journey.
Career Search Accelerators
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Have an idea for a business or product? Bring your idea to life with the help of the team at the PGCEI!
The Perricelli-Gegnas Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
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The Management Merit Scholars Program recognizes high-achieving, intellectually curious Freeman College of Management majors
Management Merit Scholars Program
2025 College Report
Freeman College of Management
The Freeman College of Management is a vibrant hub of innovation and empowerment, where students are encouraged to embrace diversity, think entrepreneurially and seize opportunities. In our 2025 college report, you'll see how Freeman College students and grads are thriving in their fields. Learn about our distinctive strengths, including our collaborative and inclusive community, unique opportunities for interdisciplinary learning, and the accomplishments of our expert faculty.
Management and More
In the Freeman College, you'll gain a valuable, expansive education that combines innovative, business-centered, entrepreneurial experiences with the liberal arts. But you'll do more than learn in the classrooms — you'll join a community of bold thinkers, supportive mentors and accomplished alumni.