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McAfee School of Business

The McAfee School of Business will prepare you for today's dynamic global business environment. You'll find strong, innovative programs that help you to succeed and lead.

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Accreditation

We are the only AACSB Accredited Christ-centered school of business in Tennessee and one of nine in the world that say their evangelical faith is central to their mission. With AACSB we measure student learning and have faculty who are professionally and academically engaged.

Union's AACSB Profile

Undergraduate Programs

The business education you receive at Union is provided within a context of Christian faith, ethics and character. You'll benefit from programs built upon a foundation of quality teaching, collaborative learning, quality research and a personalized faculty-student environment.

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Accounting

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Business Administration

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Economics

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Undergraduate Program Details

Business Administration Concentrations

  • Economics
  • Finance
  • International Business
  • Management
  • Marketing
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Discipline-Specific Honors

The McAfee School of Business offers discipline-specific Honors for selected students. Individual professors will develop an honors contract for the honors student in connection with upper level required courses. A thesis advisor will work with the honors student in developing an appropriate research approach for the honors thesis. Successful honors students will graduate as BSBA with Honors.

Honors Community at Union

Minors

  • Accounting
  • Business Administration
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Management—Operations Management
  • Management—Human Resources
  • Marketing
  • University Studies
2026-27 Catalogue: McAfee School of Business

Graduate Programs

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Master of Business Administration

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Master of Accountancy

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The HUB

The HUB is a collection of innovative spaces that enable students, faculty, and community members to design, collaborate, create and innovate. The 7 distinct spaces include a Maker’s Space, two Entrepreneurship Studios, a Workshop, an Innovation Gallery, a Business Analytics Center, and a Story Room.

The HUB is located on the first floor of the Ethos Forum, the newest academic building at Union University.

 

The HUB

Our Faculty

Union's McAfee School of Business faculty are practitioners and people of faith who combine real-world expertise with genuine investment in every student. With small class sizes and a brand new home in the Ethos Forum — equipped with innovative learning spaces, collaboration hubs, and industry-standard tools — students are developed by professors who know the profession and care deeply about the people they're preparing for it.

Santhosh Abraham

Associate Dean and Professor of Accounting

Vincent Castro

Assistant Professor of Management

Brooke Emery

Dean of the School of Adult & Professional Studies and Graduate & Adult Admissions; and Professor of Marketing

Christopher K. Manner

Professor of Economics

Karen Coleman Miller

James and Shirley Porter Endowed Chair, University Prof. of Accounting, and Accounting Disc. Coord.

Duncan Nicol

Associate Professor of Marketing and Assurance of Learning Coordinator

April Rowsey

Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship Director for the HUB

Daniel J. Slater

Dean and Professor of Management

Valerie Townsend

Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of Accounting

Colene Trent

Professor of Economics | Director of Events

Guan Jun Wang

Professor of Finance

Kevin Westbrook

Professor of Marketing

Our Staff

Bria Hinkelman

Coordinator for Graduate Programs, McAfee School of Business

Katie King

Director for Graduate Programs and Administrative Assistant, McAfee School of Business

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