Earn a Business Degree

Discover the ever-changing world of business. The field of business offers a variety of job responsibilities and activities to help an organization reach its goals and objectives including profit margins. Business offers many career paths and provides opportunities for advancement and leadership.

Earn Your Degree

Earn a 2-year degree or start your 4-year degree.

Real Skills

Through an internship, you will gain real-world work experience ensuring you have the skills you need to succeed on the job.

Instructors

Learn from instructors with experience working in their fields.

Affordable

Hawkeye offers the lowest tuition in Northeast Iowa!

Business Programs

  • Business Liberal Arts Transfer Major

    Students studying Business will gain knowledge in statistics, accounting, information systems, and economics. Skills gained in the Business Liberal Arts Transfer Major can be easily applied to many career areas including accounting, banking, business management, economics, finance, real estate, and sales.

    Flexible Class Schedule: Choose from day, evening, hybrid, and online classes to create a schedule that fits your needs.

    Award: Associate of Arts (AA)

  • Communication Liberal Arts Transfer Major

    Communication professionals are known for being skillful at taking complex information and making it easy to understand, as well as their ability to connect with others. A degree in communication prepares students for a variety of careers from marketing and public relations to banking and more.

    Flexible Class Schedule: Choose from day, evening, hybrid, and online classes to create a schedule that fits your needs.

    Award: Associate of Arts (AA)

  • Accounting

    Gain hands-on experience preparing, analyzing, and tracking financial information; preparing individual income taxes, payroll accounting, accounts payable and receivable, and related computer systems.

    Tuition-Free Eligible Program

    Awards: Associate of Applied Science (AAS), Diploma, Certificate

  • Administrative Office Management

    Graduates have the knowledge and skills to coordinate and manage an office environment. This program shares many course requirements with other business programs, making it easy to double major or transfer to another program.

    Tuition-Free Eligible Program

    Awards: Associate of Applied Science (AAS), Diploma

  • Ag Business Management

    Learn all aspects of agriculture, including agronomy and crop production, precision agriculture, farm management, business, and animal production. Students get hands on experience working on Hawkeye’s 225-acre farm.

    Awards: Associate of Applied Science (AAS), Diploma, Certificate

  • Hospitality Management

    Prepare for supervisor and manager roles in hotels, resorts, restaurants, institutions, and clubs by gaining practical skills to manage food and lodging operations. Students in this program get hands-on experience operating the RedTail Café, located in the Brock Student Center.

    Tuition-Free Eligible Program

    Award: Associate of Applied Science (AAS)

  • Human Resource Management

    Gain skills in basic accounting, management, interviewing, job placement, compensation and benefits, labor relations, and more. Students complete 192 hours of real-world work experience before graduation.

    Flexible Class Schedule: All courses are offered online, many classes are offered face-to-face. Choose the course format that best suits your needs.

    Tuition-Free Eligible Program

    Award: Associate of Applied Science (AAS)

  • Marketing Management

    Build a foundation of critical thinking, teamwork, business, communications, marketing, economics, sales, and more while preparing for your career. This program provides entrepreneurs with a sound business education.

    Awards: Associate of Applied Science (AAS), Certificate

  • Medical Office Specialist

    Prepare for a career coordinating or facilitating a medical office, including hands-on experience scribing and working with an electronic health records system.

    Tuition-Free Eligible Program

    Award: Diploma

Scholarships

Hawkeye awards more than $3 million dollars in scholarships. Apply for Hawkeye and External Scholarships.

Many of our business programs are eligible for the Last-Dollar Scholarship that will cover up to 100% of your tuition.

Graduate Spotlight: Lincoln LaSourd

Lincoln LaSourd started out like many students: undecided. One Marketing Management class with Mark Ryan, however, helped him make up his mind. "That really just sparked my interest," he said. Now, Lincoln is preparing to graduate and transfer to UNI, where he already has friends and connections after living in the dorms one year while taking classes at Hawkeye Community College. His advice for new students: be open and trust the process. "Be open to meeting new people, getting to know your teachers, trying new classes," he said. "You never know, it might spark something you didn’t even know you had an interest in."

Graduate Spotlight: Caden Conrad

Caden Conrad has big goals. He wants to be an entrepreneur, starting his own businesses and pursuing new ventures. He came to Hawkeye Community College for the Marketing Management program, looking for knowledge, guidance, and mentorship.

Graduate Spotlight: Brenda Abarca

As a high school student, Brenda Abarca was unsure which career path was right for her. She started taking Hawkeye classes through the Waterloo Career Center, and after one business class she discovered her interest in Human Resource Management. "I really truly found that human resources was a place where I was able to help people," she said. "I found that's where I need to be."

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