Business Administration

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Major in Business Administration

The Bachelor of Science (B.S.) or Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Business Administration (BUAD) requires a minimum of 120 earned units, which must include successful completion of the Core Curriculum requirements, the BUAD requirements and electives. BUAD requirements include 50-51 units of required business courses and 21-24 units in one of the following concentrations or tracks: Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Human Resource Management, International Business, Leadership and Management, Marketing, or Project Management and Business Analysis. The electives may include the units required for a minor or specialization program, or in a foreign language for the B.A. degree. See Degree Requirements in this catalog.

Business Administration is a screened major. Students first choose to major in pre-business Administration (PBUA) and are admitted to the business administration major (BUAD) only after successfully completing a set of required courses with an average GPA of 2.7 or higher in those courses. The overall GPA must be 2.00 or higher. Students will not be allowed to take majors only courses until they have successfully completed all of the PBUA courses and been admitted to the BUAD major.

During the freshman and sophomore years, PBUA students must concentrate on building an academic foundation as a base for the in-depth, upper-level courses. This foundation includes both lower-level required courses and most of the Core Curriculum requirements.

Students are responsible for monitoring their own progress toward graduation. Students must consult with their assigned advisers each term to ensure that prerequisite courses are taken in proper sequence to meet the student's target completion date for the degree. Prerequisites are monitored during registration. Students who enroll in CBE courses without having fulfilled the prerequisites will be disenrolled from those courses. All major requirements must be completed with a grade equivalent of 2.00 or higher. 

In order to assure that students have retained critical information from prior courses, students take a comprehensive examination on business content as part of the capstone course, MNGT 481. The results of this examination serve as 10 percent of the MNGT 481 grade. MNGT 481 must be completed at Towson University. See the Suggested Four-Year Plans of Study for each concentration or track within the Business Administration major. 

B.A. Degree Option

A student must complete all the courses required for the major and a foreign language's intermediate (202) courses (or equivalent).

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