January 9, 2025
CAREER OUTLOOK
What Can I Do With an Applied Bachelor’s in Sustainable Business Management?
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Job openings for General and Operations Managers 2024-2034
Job openings for General and Operations Managers 2024-2034
$ 103
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Average salary for General and Operations Managers 2024
Average salary for General and Operations Managers 2024
+ 8
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Job growth for General and Operations Managers 2033
Job growth for General and Operations Managers 2033
*Source: O-Net Online/U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unity cannot guarantee employment. Salary data represents averaged earnings for occupations listed and includes workers at all levels of education and experience.
The 90-Credit Advantage
Give Your
Career an Edge
With Unity’s Career Edge digital badges, you won’t have to wait until graduation to prove your value. Every skills-first general education course in the Sustainable Business Management program awards shareable digital badges: portable, verifiable credentials you can display on LinkedIn, your resume, or job applications.
These badges highlight work-ready skills like communication, problem solving, collaboration, and data use, so employers can see exactly what you bring to the table. You’ll also earn a Certificate of Transferable Workplace Skills, giving you a recognized credential to advance your career even before completing your degree.
In the Applied Bachelor’s in Sustainable Business Management Program You’ll Learn To:
- Analyze how climate, policy, and markets shape business risk and opportunity.
- Evaluate performance using ESG, financial, and carbon accounting to guide decisions.
- Design sustainable business models that balance profit, people, and planet.
- Use data, branding, and stakeholder engagement to advance transparent, credible initiatives.
- Lead ethically and inclusively to drive sustainability-oriented culture change.
What You Will Study
Sustainable Business Management Course Examples
Strategic Management for Social Change
Social change is one of today’s most pressing business challenges. A sustainable enterprise designs its operations to be profitable while reducing environmental impact and promoting the wellbeing of employees, customers, and other stakeholders. This course explores business models and tools that help leaders uphold human rights, ensure fair labor, promote health and safety, foster wellness, champion inclusion, support work-life balance, and empower employees. Students gain practical experience by applying purposeful business strategies to real-world challenges and creating intentional, impactful social change.
Supply Chain Operations: Greening Your Business
This course provides an in-depth exploration of sustainable business practices applied to a company’s supply chain through the lens of circular economy principles and international regulations. The curriculum delves into the essentials of sustainable sourcing, ethical labor practices, toxic substance reduction, carbon footprint reduction, and waste reduction within global supply chains. This course develops the student’s understanding of the significant challenges businesses encounter in balancing their financial objectives with the complexities of global sustainability initiatives.
Introduction to Sustainable Branding
Sustainability is a critical imperative in today’s business landscape. This course equips students with foundational knowledge to address environmental and social sustainability in marketing. Through case studies, discussions, and exercises, students explore opportunities, challenges, and practices in sustainable branding. The course highlights key trends, emphasizes ethical marketing to avoid greenwashing, and develops skills in sustainable branding, storytelling, and reducing environmental impact in daily marketing operations. Students gain practical tools to promote responsible marketing while advancing both brand value and positive social change.
FAQ
Learn More About Unity’s Sustainable Business Management Program
Sustainable business management is a field of study that focuses on leading organizations in ways that balance profitability with environmental and social responsibility. It integrates core business skills such as finance, marketing, and operations with sustainable practices that reduce environmental impact, promote ethical decision-making, and create long-term value for both businesses and society.
An Applied Bachelor’s in Sustainable Business Management is a 90-credit online degree that blends business, ESG, and analytics to prepare you to drive profitable, people-centered, and planet-smart results. This program emphasizes applied learning, systems thinking, and global relevance, with courses ranging from foundational accounting and finance to advanced topics in ESG investing, carbon accounting, sustainable supply chains, and corporate responsibility.
Unity’s 90-credit Applied Bachelor’s program is designed to save you both time and money. With fewer credits required than a traditional 120-credit bachelor’s, you can save up to 25% on your degree cost. You may save even more if you transfer eligible credits from previous college coursework. Visit our Tuition & Financial Aid page to learn more about how you can pay for college.
Our 90-credit Applied Bachelor’s in Sustainable Business Management is designed for flexibility, with year-round terms (8 per year). By taking 4 credits per term, you can complete your degree in just under 3 years.
Transfer credits can shorten your timeline even further, allowing you to finish even faster and start your career sooner.
Professional Core: 42 credits
Program Core: 42 credits
Elective Courses: 6 credits
- ACCT 1010 Business Accounting
- FINC 201 Business Administration: Enterprise Accounting
- MGMT 201 Corporate Sustainability Frameworks and Standards
- MATH 201 Statistics for Environmental Professionals
- ECON 305 Economic Development Within Planetary Boundaries and Sustainable Development Goals
- MGMT 301 Starting Your Small Business
- ENTR 310 Digital Tools for Modern Entrepreneurs
- POLI 301 Global and Local Politics and Policy Implications
- MKTG 303 Introduction to Sustainable Branding
- MGMT 303 Strategic Management for Social Change
- PSYC 403 Organizational Behavior and Sustainability
- MGMT 403 Global Supply Chain Operations: Greening Your Business
- MGMT 405 Achieving Net Zero Through Carbon Accounting
- FINC 401 Investment for a Sustainable World
Realizing Your Potential. Protecting Your Planet.
Why Unity Career Edge?
High Educational Value
Nationally recognized educational quality at an affordable price.
Sustainability Core
Committed to sustainable practices to prepare for a future of environmental awareness.
Personalized Guidance
Dedicated to turning career and academic aspirations into tangible achievements.
Transfer-Friendly
Transfer up to 75% of your degree credits to save even more and finish faster.
Inspiring Faculty
Connect with experts who share your passion for working in the industry.
Future Success
Ranked #1 independent university in the U.S. by the Social Mobility Index.
Multiple Start Dates
With up to 8 terms a year, you can take a break without jeopardizing financial aid.
Learning Flexibility
Balance life, work, and education by studying when and where you want
