Our Accounting Analytics master's, available online or on campus, provides specialized study of data analysis as it relates to decision-making in accounting. It will also give you a competitive edge in an increasingly data-driven business climate, and it offers thorough preparation for the CPA exam.

Format: Online or On Campus

As a student in our accounting major, offered online or on campus, you’ll develop the critical thinking and analytical skills needed to manage financial transactions and prepare financial reports, and use those reports to make good real-world business decisions. Our caring, supportive faculty and comprehensive coursework will build your skills so you're prepared to apply for professional certification and sit for these exams:

Offered on campus and online, Northern's banking and financial services degree program has the strong support of area professionals who provide internships and part-time work for our banking and financial services students; employ NSU graduates; and serve on the NSU Bank Advisory Board.

Our faculty have extensive experience in money center and community commercial banking organizations - and expertise in lending, bank operations, bank management, investments, financial planning, trust operations, law, and bank regulation.

In Northern’s entirely online Master of Science in Banking and Financial Services program, you’ll study the business of banking. You’ll learn how bankers best serve customers’ financial needs through business performance evaluations. You’ll also study the inner workings of banking and financial institutions, and the economic environment in which they operate.

Graduates are prepared for careers in all aspects of the financial services industry: commercial banking, insurance, credit unions, investments, regulation and consumer finance.

Northern's flexible bachelor's degree in business administration - offered both online and on campus - allows you to choose classes that personalize your studies to fit your needs and interests.

In this broad-based business major, you’ll learn the fundamentals of:

• Accounting
• Business law
• Finance
• Information systems
• Management
• Marketing

You’ll also gain a basic understanding of how organizations work – and how to unleash your potential to make them successful. 

In addition to being offered on Northern State University's main campus (Aberdeen, S.D.), this undergraduate certificate is also available online.

With Northern's online associate degree in criminal justice, you'll be well-equipped for a career in the criminal justice profession, gaining a background in the foundational terminology of the criminal justice system.

The General Studies Associate of Arts Degree, offered online or on campus, allows you to design your own degree, tailoring your program of study to fit a variety of interests. The program delivers the academic expertise required for a broad range of occupations, while allowing you to follow your passion.

Northern also offers an equally flexible Bachelor of General Studies degree on the main NSU campus, online and at Huron Community Campus.

Northern's General Studies bachelor's degree, offered online and on campus, is an option for you if you've earned a significant number of credits toward a degree, but wish to change your program of study. To pursue a BGS degree, you must have a 2.0 GPA.

Flexible

The BGS program is flexible - you might say it allows you to design your own degree. The program delivers the academic expertise required for a broad range of occupations, while allowing you to follow your passion.

This certificate is available only online at the undergraduate and graduate level.