Bucknell adds consulting minor

Bucknell University will let students from any major add a minor in management consulting starting in the 2026–27 academic year. (bucknell.edu) The new minor sits in Bucknell’s Kenneth W. Freeman College of Management, but it is open across the university’s three colleges: Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Management. (bucknell.edu) Bucknell’s 2026–2027 catalog now lists management consulting among the Freeman College’s optional minors, alongside accounting, business analytics, entrepreneurship, human resource management, markets, innovation and design, and real estate. (coursecatalog.bucknell.edu) In Bucknell’s catalog, the minor is described as training students to help organizations plan strategy, structure and process changes. The program emphasizes communication, coordination, stakeholder management, leadership, negotiations and employee motivation and behavior. (coursecatalog.bucknell.edu) That course mix shows how universities are packaging consulting less as a first job and more as a set of tools students can use in companies, nonprofits and public organizations. Bucknell’s management and organizations program already frames that work across private, public, nonprofit and hybrid organizations. (coursecatalog.bucknell.edu) The move also fits Bucknell’s broader pitch that students can build interdisciplinary paths across its three colleges. The university says it offers more than 60 majors and 70 minors and highlights “interdisciplinary learning” as a core part of its academic model. (bucknell.edu) Bucknell has been building out management as a university-wide platform for years. The College of Management was elevated in 2017 and named the Kenneth W. Freeman College of Management in 2018 after a philanthropic commitment of more than $25 million from Kenneth W. Freeman and Janice Freeman. (bucknell.edu) The management school itself says it serves nearly 600 students and more than 40 faculty and staff, giving Bucknell a sizable base for adding specialized minors like this one. (bucknell.edu) Bucknell’s own career profile points to where some of that demand may be coming from: recent Freeman employers include EY, Deloitte, RSM and Protiviti, all firms with consulting businesses. (poetsandquantsforundergrads.com) For students arriving in Lewisburg in fall 2026, the new option formalizes something colleges increasingly advertise anyway: consulting skills as part of a liberal-arts-and-professional education mix, not just a business-school track. (bucknell.edu)