Nov 18, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog 
  
2024-2025 Catalog

Business Administration, B.B.A.


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Students seeking a bachelor of business administration degree must complete a minimum of 120 credit hours. Depending upon a student’s major, the actual number of required credit hours may be greater than 120 credit hours. Students must successfully complete the University’s General Education Curriculum requirements, which total 36 credit hours for business administration majors. All business administration students must satisfactorily complete the core curriculum of the School of Business Administration and Professional Programs. The core consists of 33 credit hours. Each major within the School of Business Administration and Professional Programs requires additional hour’s specific to the major.

Students will also take advanced electives as required by the particular major.

In addition, business majors must take a minimum of 3 hours of required related courses. If needed, students must take free elective credit hours to complete the number of hours required to obtain the bachelor of business administration degree. No more than 6 hours of business transfer credits with a grade of “D” will apply toward major requirements, and no transfer grades of “D” will apply toward major courses. In addition, a maximum of 6 hours of transfer credits may be applied to satisfy a major requirement.

All Bachelor of Business Administration majors are offered in a traditional face-to-face modality on Wesleyan’s historic campus.

The Management major and the Supply Chain Management major in the BBA are also available as online programs with a specific set of courses meeting requirements.

Total Hours (120)


General Education Curriculum (36)


For the full General Education Curriculum Policy and Requirements, refer to the GEC  listed in this catalog.

Some courses listed in program “Major Requirements” or “Required Related Courses” (noted with an asterisk [*]) may be used to meet requirements in the GEC. Although these courses fulfill requirements in each area, credit hours for these courses, if taken for the GEC, may only be counted in the GEC.

Complete Graduation Requirements  are listed in this catalog.

Language Literacy (12)


Analytic Literacy (7)


Mathematics (3)


Note:

MAT 1304  is acceptable for all programs in the School of Arts and Sciences except for the programs in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, and Mathematics. MAT 1304  is acceptable for all programs in the School of Education. MAT 1304  is not acceptable for any program in the School of Business and Professional Programs.

Choose (3) Hours From One of the Following:


  • FAR, MUS, or THA

Social Literacy (8)


Required Related Courses (9 Hours)


ECO 2305 , MAT 1310 , SPC 1301 * may be used to satisfy the GEC.

Business Administration (3 Hours)


Economics (3 Hours)


Speech (3 Hours)


Major Requirements


Business Core (33 Hours)


Students should review catalog course descriptions for any course prerequisites before registration. Students are not allowed to register for a course unless they satisfy all course prerequisites. A prerequisite course requires completion with a grade of C or higher.

Major Requirement


Students should choose one of the listed Majors outlined below.
Accounting 
Accounting with Forensic/Fraud Emphasis 
Business Analytics 
Computer Information Systems 
Finance 
General Business 
Management 
Marketing 
Supply Chain Management 

Advanced Electives


Advanced electives (3000 or above) must be chosen in consultation with academic advisor.

Electives


Electives will be required if the student has not met a minimum of 120 hours in the program.

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