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Business Administration Degree Program

Bachelor's Degree

By earning a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, you could follow numerous career paths. You can specialize in business planning, cost control, sales and marketing, or human resources. You can even seek entry-level general management positions that supervise overall operations.

Upon successful completion of this business administration degree program, graduates are awarded a bachelor of science degree.

Business Administration Program Features

  • Diverse courses offering a comprehensive understanding of business
  • Strategic elective courses to enhance chosen business skills

Potential Business Administration Career Opportunities

As a graduate of this business administration bachelor's degree program, you may seek future entry-level employment opportunities such as:

  • Financial analyst
  • Middle manager
  • Personnel manager

Business Administration Courses and Typical Length of Study

The approximate length of study for this program is 120 semester credit hours.

Core Business Administration
Courses and Electives
Credit
Hours
ACCT111 Accounting I 3
ACCT112 Accounting II 3
BADM111 Principles of Management 3
BADM211 Organizational Behavior 3
BADM212 Human Resource Management 3
BADM236 Introduction to International Business  3
BADM240 Introduction to Business Law 3
BADM261 Financial Management 3
BADM380 Business Ethics 3
BCAP106 Introduction to Microsoft Office     3
ECON110 Microeconomics     3
ECON111 Macroeconomics 3
MATH295 Statistics II 3
MRKT110 Principles of Marketing 3
  Open electives (2) - (100 level or higher) 6
  Open electives (2) - (200 level or higher) 6
  Open electives (2) - (300 level or higher) 6

General Business Administration
Concentration Courses
BADM344 Leadership and Organizational Change 3
BADM354  Management Information Systems 3
BADM364  Global Issues - Business, Government,
and Society
3
  Business electives (3) - (300 Level or Higher) 9

General Education Courses
and Electives
GNED111 First Semester Seminar  3
GNED211 Critical Thinking Workshop 3
  Upper Seminar Elective 3
BADM495 Strategic Management 3
ENGL103 English Composition 3
ENGL106 English Composition II 3
ENGL110 Oral Communication 3
MATH116 Finite Mathematics or approved elective 3
MATH195 Statistics I 3
  Natural Science elective (100 level or higher) 3
  Humanities elective (100 level or higher) 3
  Humanities elective (200 level or higher) 6
SOCI111 Introduction to Sociology 3
  Social Science elective (200 level or higher) 3


Total Credit Hours


120


Business Administration Program Outcomes

The business administration degree program is designed to prepare graduates to meet the following outcomes:

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the role of accounting and finance in the management process
  • Discuss micro- and macroeconomic principles and articulate the impact that those principles have on the organizational decision-making process
  • Analyze the role of marketing in the business environment and apply core marketing principles to the development of business strategy and decision-making processes
  • Examine the impact of leadership, employee behavior, organizational culture, group dynamics, and the team-based approach in defining organizational culture and resolving organizational concerns
  • Examine the ethical and legal implications of managerial decisions and the effect of those decisions on organizational stakeholders
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the role of emerging technologies as they relate to the new global scope of management and marketing
  • Examine the multidisciplinary nature of business and analyze the role that each discipline plays in the strategic management process

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