The Business Administration Major

Students majoring in business administration must satisfy the USD core curriculum requirements as set forth in the catalog, the lower-division business courses in preparation for the major, the major requirements (i.e., the Business Component and the Major Component), and the Professional Development Passport Program.

Lower Division Preparation for the Major

Students must earn a C- or better in all lower-division business preparatory courses for the major.

Students who are pursuing a business major are expected to complete all lower-division business preparatory courses before earning 60 units. Students who have completed 45 – 59 units will receive an email reminding them of the policy that business majors need to complete all lower-division business preparatory courses by 60 units and recommending that they meet with a business advisor if needed. Students, who have completed 60-74 units but still have outstanding lower-division business preparatory courses, will have an advisor hold placed on their account and must meet with a business advisor before registering for any upper-division business courses. If a student has earned 75 or more units and still has not completed all of the lower-division business preparatory courses then the student will not be able to register for any upper-division business courses until the lower-division business preparatory courses have been successfully completed with a C- or better.

ACCT 201	Principles of Financial Accounting	3
ACCT 202	Principles of Managerial Accounting	3
ECON 101	Principles of Microeconomics	3-4
ECON 102	Principles of Macroeconomics	3
ECON 216	Stats for Business & Econ	1-4
or ECON 217	Applied Regression Analysis
ECON 217 is restricted to incoming transfer students and must receive pre-approval
ITMG 100	Information Systems	3
or BUSN 101	Creating and Growing Sustainable Ventures
Complete one of the following:		3-4
MATH 130	Survey of Calculus
MATH 133	Business Calculus
MATH 150	Calculus I
Total Units		19-24

Major Requirements

The business administration major prepares students for careers in business management, public administration, and entrepreneurial ventures, as well as graduate study in business.

The courses in the business administration major serve two purposes:

they give students a broad background in the major functional areas of business administration, i.e., the Business Component; and,
they give students electives to explore their interests in the field of business administration, i.e., the Major Component.

BUSINESS COMPONENT:
DSCI 300	Foundations of Business Analytics	3
DSCI 303	Operations Management	3
ETLW 302	Business and Society	3
or PHIL 332	Business Ethics
ETLW 311	Business Law I	3
FINA 300	Financial Management	3
MGMT 300	Organizational Behavior	3
MGMT 497	Global and Sustainable Business Strategy	3
MKTG 300	Fundamentals of Marketing	3
or MKTG 303	Fundamentals of Marketing Alternative
Business Component Total Units		24
MAJOR COMPONENT:
Elective Courses
Select a Finance elective from the following (a total of three units):		3
FINA 401-409; FINA 411-494
Select a Management elective from the following (a total of three units):		3
MGMT 301-494
Select a Marketing elective from the following (a total of three units):		3
MKTG 301-494
Select two additional School of Business upper-division classes (a total of six units):		6
ACCT 300-494; BSCM 300-499; BUAN 300-499; BUSN 300-499; DSCI 304-499; ECON 300-499; ENTR 300-494; ETLW 312-499; FINA 301-409; FINA 411-499; ITMG 300-499; MGMT 301-499; MKTG 301-499; or REAL 300-499
Elective Courses Total Units		15
Total Units		39

The business administration major requires a minimum of 24 upper-division units in the major be completed at USD, of which 12 upper-division units must be in the major component.

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