A business professor teaches business subjects like accounting, finance, marketing and operations to college students, and usually also does research. The path has two main routes: a PhD for tenure-track research jobs (73% of workers), or a master's plus real industry experience for teaching-focused roles at community colleges and some universities (20%). You will build business fundamentals first, then learn how to teach and how to do research, then specialize and publish. Every resource here is free. Take it one stage at a time. Each skill supports the next, and you can do this.
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Stage 1 of 3 · about 16 weeks
Understand core business subjects well enough to explain them simply, and learn how research and teaching work.
Financial accounting and Excel
Accounting is the language of business, and the most common course you will be asked to teach. If you can read a balance sheet and income statement, every other business topic gets easier.
Economics and finance basics
Marketing, operations and strategy all rest on supply and demand, costs and the time value of money. You need these to reason about business problems.
Statistics and data tools
Business research and many business courses use statistics. Descriptive statistics, regression and hypothesis tests are everyday tools, and you will teach them and use them in research.
Clear business writing and speaking
Speaking and writing are the top skills for this job. Students learn from clarity, not from complexity.
Then 2 more stages (about 160 weeks in all) with lessons, drills, projects, 6 interview questions with strong answers and free resources.