Undergraduate Program
BS Requirements
The BS program is best for students interested in studying a business discipline in greater depth. If you have questions about or want to enroll in the undergraduate business program, please contact us to schedule a meeting.
Requirements for a BS in business:
- Satisfactory completion of prerequisite in calculus (AP/IB credit is acceptable and courses are not subject to the College’s overlap policy)
Core set of nine required courses- Six courses in one of the tracks listed below
Completing the required coursework above satisfies the College’s upper-level writing requirement.
Students in the classes of 2017 through 2019 have the option to complete the previous BS requirements.
Prerequisite
One of the following calculus sequences or its equivalent:
- MATH 141, 142, & 143
- MATH 161–162
- MATH 171–172
Core
All of the following courses are required:
- One statistics course*
- Required for finance and business analytics tracks and preferred for all tracks: ECON 230, STAT 213, or MATH 203
- Also suggested: STAT 211, STAT 212, STAT 216, PSYC/CSSP 211, PSCI 200, or PSCI 205
- ECON 108: Principles of Economics*
- ECON 207: Intermediate Microeconomics
- ACC 201: Financial Accounting
- FIN 205: Financial Management or FIN 204: Principles of Finance
- CIS/GBA 220: Business Information Systems and Analytics
- BUS/GBA 221: Operations and Strategy
- MKT 203: Principles of Marketing
- STR 203/ECON 214: Economic Theory of Organizations
*Students who received AP or IB credit for ECON 108 must take one additional higher-level ECO course.
Tracks
CIS 191: Introduction to Programming for Business Analytics (F/S) or CSC 161: Intro to Programming
ECON 231W: Econometrics (F/S)
CIS 240: Data Management and Descriptive Analytics for Business (F)
CIS 242: Predictive Analytics (S)
Two of the following:
- ACC 221: Managerial Accounting (S)
- CIS/GBA 211: Business Modeling with Excel (F/S)
- ECON 217: Contract Theory (F)
- ECON 233: Applied Econometrics (S)
- ECON 288: Game Theory (F/S)
- FIN 234: Portfolio Theory & Analytics (F)
- FIN 241: Real Estate Principles (S)
- MKT 212: Marketing Research & Analytics (F)
- MKT 233: Advertising and Social Media (S)
- STR 221: Business Strategy (S)
- STR 241: Pricing Strategy (F)
F= offered fall semester
S= offered spring semester
F/S= offered both fall and semesters
One of the following:
- ENT 223: Planning and Growing Business Ventures (S)
- ENT 225: Technical Entrepreneurship (F)
Select five from below:
- ACC 221: Managerial Accounting (S)
- BUS 201: Impactful Presentations* + BUS 210: Art of Pitching*
- CIS/GBA 211: Business Modeling with Excel (F/S)
- ENT 227: Entrepreneurship for Not-for-Profits (every other S, odd years)
- FIN 213: Corporate Finance (F)
- FIN 233: Mergers and Acquisitions (every other F, even years)
- FIN 241: Real Estate Principles (S)
- LAW 205: Business Law: Contracts and Legal Entities (F)
- LAW 250: Business Law: Transactions and Other Topics (S)
- MKT 212: Marketing Research and Analytics (F)
- MKT 213: Marketing Projects and Cases (F/S)
- MKT 233: Advertising and Social Media (S)
- MKT 235: Product and Brand Strategy (F)
- PSCI 238: Business & Politics
- PSCI 244: Politics & Markets
- SOCI 310K: Social Network Theory and Entrepreneurial Activity in Silicon Valley I (S)
- SOCI 311K: Social Network Theory and Entrepreneurial Activity in Silicon Valley II (S)
- STR 221: Business Strategy (S)
- STR 241/ECON 241: Pricing Strategy (F)
*2 credit course
F= offered fall semester
S= offered spring semester
F/S= offered both fall and semesters
ACC 222: Financial Statement Analysis (S)
FIN 206: Investments (S)
FIN 213: Corporate Finance (F)
FIN 224: Options, Futures & Derivatives (F) or MATH 210: Introduction to Financial Mathematics (F/S)
Two of the following:
- ACC 221: Managerial Accounting (S)
- CIS/GBA 211: Business Modeling with Excel (F/S)
- ECON 209: Intermediate Macroeconomics (F/S)
- ECON 211: Money, Credit, and Banking (S)
- ECON 217: Contract Theory (F)
- ECON 233W: Applied Econometrics (S)
- ECON 271: Behavioral Economics (F)
- FIN 233: Mergers and Acquisitions (every other F, even years)
- FIN 234: Portfolio Theory & Analytics (every other F, odd years)
- FIN 241: Real Estate Principles (S)
- FIN 242: International Finance (S)
- STR 221: Business Strategy (S)
- STR 241/ECON 241: Pricing Strategy (F)
F= offered fall semester
S= offered spring semester
F/S= offered both fall and semesters
Choose at least (4), up to (6) from below:
MKT 212: Marketing Research and Analytics (F)
MKT 213: Marketing Projects and Cases (F/S)
MKT 233: Advertising and Social Media (S)
MKT 235: Product and Brand Strategy (F)
MKT 237: Digital Marketing Strategy (S)
STR 241: Pricing Strategy (F)
Choose
- ANTH 227: Local and Global Market Research (F)
- BUS 118/GBA 241: Business Ethics (S, even years)
- CIS/GBA 211: Business Modeling with Excel (F/S)
- PSYC 264: Industrial and Organizational Psychology (S)
- STR 221: Business Strategy (S)
- STAT 221W: Sampling Design (F)
F= offered fall semester
S= offered spring semester
F/S= offered both fall and semesters
Students can use the following worksheets to help plan their courses: