Major Requirements

The UM College of Business Administration offers a bachelor of science degree in Business Administration. Students may earn a major in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Management & Entrepreneurship, Marketing, or they may earn a major in International Business by double majoring in International Business and one other business major.

All students wishing to receive a UM bachelor of science degree in any of our Business Majors must first complete the following Lower-Core courses with grades of C- or better in each class:

Primary Lower-Core Courses Required in Business:

WRIT 101 - English Composition

MATH 115- Probability and Linear Math*

STAT 216 - Intro to Statistics**

BMIS 270 - Management Information Systems

ECNS 201S - Principles of Microeconomics

ACTG 201 - Financial Accounting

ACTG 202 - Managerial Accounting

BGEN 105S - Intro to Business (from catalog year 2020-2021)

BGEN 222 - Business Models & Operations (from catalog year 2021-2022)

*Other approved math courses include M 121 – College Algebra, M 151 – Pre-calculus, and M 162 – Applied Calculus

**Other approved statistics courses include SOCI 202 - Social Statistics, PSYX 222 - Psychology Statistics, and FORS 201 - Forestry Biometrics

Secondary Lower-Core Courses Required in Business:

COMX 111 - Public Speaking

CSCI 172 - Intro to Computer Modeling (until catalog year 2020-2021)

ECNS 202S - Principles of Macroeconomics

BGEN 220E - Business Ethics & Social Responsibility

At the beginning of the semester in which students will complete the primary lower core with a 2.0 GPA, 2.0 GPA cumulative GPA and 60 total credits, they apply for admission to a business major. After admission, students are able to register for upper-division 300- and 400-level business classes. The first semester in a business major, students begin taking the Upper-Core Courses required in business. All Upper-Core Courses must be completed with grades of C- or better unless specified as a prereq for another class.

Upper-Core Courses Required in Business:

BFIN 322 - Business Finance

BGEN 361 - Business Law

BMGT 322 - Operations Management (ended in Summer 2021) or BGEN 222 - Business Models & Operation (until catalog year 2020-2021)

BMGT 340 - Management and Organizational Behavior (ended in Summer 2021) or BGEN 341 - Poeple, Process, & Technology I (from catalog year 2021-2022)

BGEN 342 - People, Process, & Technology II (from catalog year 2021-2022)

BMKT 325 - Marketing Principles

Some Upper-Core Courses are prerequisites to courses in the business majors. For example, BMKT 325 is a prerequisite to most Marketing courses, BMGT 340 is a prerequisite to most management courses, and BFIN 322 is a prerequisite to upper-division finance courses.

BGEN 499 - Strategic Management

In the Capstone Course, students will utilize knowledge gained across the business curriculum. Students must have completed all Primary and Secondary Lower-Core and Upper-Core Courses and will have completed most business major courses by the time they take a Capstone Course.