Business Economics Major, B.B.A.

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Minimum hours required for degree: 120

Minimum hours required for major: 33

Admission to major: Completion of all Monte Ahuja College of Business lower-division requirements.

Major-Field Requirements

In addition to the B.B.A. degree program’s required core courses, students must complete:

Required courses (9 credit hours)

Finance Concentration Core - Choose three finance courses at the 300/400 level (9 credit hours)

Honors Requirements (15 honors credits in addition to BBA requirements)

ECN 497 - Honors Essay (or BUS 499: Honors Thesis Administration)
BUS 490 - Business Internship (under the supervision of a College of Business faculty member)
ECN 301 - Intermediate Macroeconomics
MGT 465 - Management Strategy & Policy

Honors Courses

Honors students in Business Economics would be required to take at least one honors course (3-4 credit hours) from the College of Business and two honors courses from the College of Liberal Arts and Social Science Department of Economics. All honors courses are created via a contract between the honors student and a cooperating Business faculty member (for the business contract course) or an Economics faculty member (for the two honors economics contract courses). The one business related honors course must be selected from the following business areas: Finance, Accounting, or Operations and Supply Chain Management.

Business Economic Courses

In addition to ECN 301, honors students must complete four additional 300 - 400 level economics electives (including two honors courses in Economics) beyond the BBA core requirements for a minimum of 15 credits.

Note (s):

The honors candidate must maintain a minimum overall grade point average of 3.5.

*Business Economics Honors students, interested in pursuing advanced degrees, are encouraged to take MTH 181 - 182 instead of MTH 148- 149.