ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Accountancy

The Accountancy program is designed to develop competent, compassionate and Christ-centered individuals who intend to pursue careers as Certified Public Accountants. This program integrates a liberal arts foundation with professional field of study in business and accounting. The emphasis is on applied and hands-on training that prepare the student to step into a job immediately upon graduation in commerce and industry, government, not-for-profit organizations, and public accounting or in enterprises as self-employed in Bicol and elsewhere. The program is also designed to prepare the students to take the CPA board examinations.

The students enter in this program starting in their 2nd year level only after passing the qualifying exams in Basic Accounting. By then, they can opt for either a 4-year or a 5-year tract in the program. back to top.


Banking and Finance

The Banking and Finance program is a 4-year course designed to develop competent academic researchers and managers of financial institutions and of international trading enterprises to serve the needs of the banking and financing industry and to support the creation and growth of import-export businesses in the Bicol Region and the country. The program produces professionals in import-export management, supply chain management, investment banking, mutual funds management, micro-financing, insurance, corporate finance, and financial security analysis as well as consulting and security programs. back to top.


Business Economics

The Business Economics is a 4-year course designed to create graduates, with preferential option for the poor and be responsive to the call of the times, particularly in improving the economic condition of the Bicolanos. The program provides students with a well-balanced foundation in economics and business management. It forms socially responsible professionals who can do, in the context of economic condition/situation, enterprise-building and management, business planning, stock market analysis, corporate planning, management training, business problem solving and consultancy, and market and business research. back to top.


Business Engineering

The Business Engineering program is a multi-disciplinary 4-year course designed to meet the educational needs of young men and women who aspire to either start their own businesses and become successful Christian techno-preneurs or become corporate leaders in manufacturing environment or in technology-based businesses. The graduates of Business Engineering are expected to contribute significantly to the industrialization of the Bicol Region as the course offers students a combination of classroom instruction and business hands-on that develop their creativity and innovativeness in conceptualizing and commercializing products and designs. It exposes students to businesses and business leaders and allows them to learn from the best of academic thought and business practices. back to top.


Business Management Honors Program

The Business Management Honors Program (BMHP) is a 4-year undergraduate degree program for university scholars designed to help them become creative and successful Christian entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial and innovative corporate managers. The course exposes the scholars to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial concepts and practices to prepare them to create, innovate, and discover new opportunities and invigorate new businesses from a transcendent vision of helping alleviate Bicolanos from poverty. The course is an applied academic program that requires students to start and manage real businesses before they can graduate.

Ateneo de Naga University, through its entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial management courses, aspires to a world-class reputation for excellence as a living laboratory in the discovery and dissemination of knowledge and practices about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education, and as a catalyst for new business formation and growth in the Bicol Region.
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Computer Management and Accounting

The Computer Management and Accounting is a 4-year course designed to develop competent, compassionate and Christ-centered individuals who intend to pursue careers in the accounting profession. This program integrates a liberal arts foundation with professional fields of study in business, computing and accounting. The emphasis is on applied and hands-on training that prepare the student to step into a job immediately upon graduation in commerce and industry, government, not-for-profit organizations, or in enterprises as self-employed in Bicol and elsewhere. This course also prepares the students to obtain international certification for Certified Information System Analyst (CISA) and/or Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). back to top.



Development Tourism Management

The Development Tourism management is a 4-year course designed to create graduates with solid understanding of hospitality industry and its role in the local, national and global economic, social and cultural development. Specifically, it is designed to support the creation, promotion and development of tourism destinations in the Bicol Region as a critical strategy for creating economic activities that involve the greater number of residents in the identified Bicol communities. It provides the students the opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills necessary in identifying, developing, promoting, and managing the human, physical and financial resources in an environmentally responsible manner.

The program complements the main thrust of the College of Commerce towards Entrepreneurship as students are developed to become social entrepreneurs who will endeavor to create businesses and entrepreneurs among the residents in the tourism communities in Bicol Region.
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Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship program is a 4-year course designed to help young men and women to become Christian entrepreneurs. This is an applied academic program that requires students to start and manage real businesses before they can graduate. The program creates environment for entrepreneurial success by providing living laboratory, extension of operational and funding support, institutionalizing the synergy between classroom learning and after-class-hours of hands-on in business incubation, and learning from the expertise of the network of business gurus.

The Entrepreneurship program offers to seed the Bicol Region and the globe with new breed of Entrepreneurs who will make use of and provide value added to the abundant Bicol resources. At the same time, it also fosters relationships with other academic programs, within and outside the Ateneo de Naga University, seeking to provide entrepreneurial education and opportunity outside the traditional business curriculum.
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Financial Accounting

The Financial Accounting is a 4-year course designed to develop competent, compassionate and Christ-centered individuals who intend to pursue careers in the accounting profession. This program integrates a liberal arts foundation with professional fields of study in business and accounting. The emphasis is on applied and hands-on training that prepare the student to step into a job immediately upon graduation in commerce and industry, government, not-for-profit organizations, or in enterprises as self-employed in Bicol and elsewhere. This course also prepares the students to obtain international certification for Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). back to top.


Hospital and Home Health Care Management

The Hospital and Home Health Care Management program is an innovative inter-disciplinary 4-year course intended to create professionals who can strategically put up or run hospitals and health care service establishments. This business management course integrates business and medical practice and is directly linked to the successful marketing and delivery of medical and health care services. Graduates of this course are well-versed with medical terminologies, computerization and standardization of medical records, billing and collection system, pharmacology and drug inventory management, health care systems management, legal aspect of the health care administration, financial management and personnel administration in hospitals and health care service establishments. back to top.


Legal Management

The Legal Management program is a 4-year business management course designed to create business leaders and entrepreneurs with solid foundation of the legal environment within which all enterprises must operate. The program, which combines business and legal management with strong liberal arts component, intends to provide the business communities in the Bicol Region and elsewhere with socially responsible professionals.

The Commercial, Labor, Civil, Administrative and Criminal Law subjects provide intensive grounding to students who intend to become lawyers as the program is designed as a preparatory law course. The Practicum/On-the-Job Training component of the course provides students actual exposure in legal administration in law firms and offices.

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Management

The Management program is a 4-year course designed towards developing students to become successful business leaders in global world either as managers or entrepreneurs. The course provides the students an opportunity to discover and rediscover management concepts and techniques and deepen the students' discovery of the various business opportunities in Bicol Region. It allows students to interact and learn from business leaders doing business within and outside the region. It offers students the opportunity to acquire knowledge base and functional skills required to meet the complex and varied responsibilities of managers in businesses and other kinds of organizations. The entrepreneurial management component of the program provides graduates with the option to become entrepreneurs and create employment opportunities in the Bicol Region. back to top.


Marketing Management

The Marketing Management program is a 4-year course designed to create dedicated, trained, skilled and value-oriented marketing professionals, in Bicol Region and elsewhere, who can work in such areas as account management, ads creation and production, media planning and buying, digital marketing, telemarketing, consumer relations management and other marketing services. It is also designed to create entrepreneurs who posses solid underpinning and appreciation of and place value to the innovation and distribution of Bicol creations and products in the domestic and international markets. The extensive hands-on training and comprehensive practicum program gives the students the required experiential skills that are in demand in the traditional and digital economies today.
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