What You'll Learn
As a business administration major, you'll learn core elements of business, such as accounting, economics, finance, information systems, management, marketing and statistics.
When you choose to specialize in human resource management, you'll be studying topics that help you better understand human resource management of diverse companies, employee law and labor relations, training and development, management consulting and more.
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Degree Requirements
A minimum of 38 General Education credits are required. Non-Business General Education credits are indicated below. Business Core Requirements satisfy an additional 15 credits hours of General Education. Course No. Title Credits IDIS 101 First-Year Seminar: Introduction to University Learning
(Only for UBalt Freshman)3 INFO 110 Introduction to University Learning
(Only for UBalt Freshman)3 Arts and Humanities 3 Arts and Humanities
(Must be from a different discipline)3 Social and Behaviorial Sciences
(Other than Econ)3 Biological and Physical Sciences
3 Biological and Physical Sciences
(with a lab)
3-4 WRIT 101 English Composition 3 IDIS 302 Upper-Division Ethics 3 WRIT 300 Upper-Division Writing
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Lower-Division Business Requirements (27 Credits)
All students in the BSBA program take these Lower-Division Business Required Core Courses. Course No. Title Credits ACCT 201 Introduction to Financial Accounting 3 ACCT 202 Introduction to Managerial Accounting
Prerequisite: ACCT 201 or equivalent with a minimum grade of C.3 BULA 151 Business Law I 3 CMAT 201
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CMAT 303Oral Communications
Laboratory fee required.3 ECON 201 Principles of Microeconomics 3 ECON 202 Principles of Macroeconomics 3 MATH 111 College Algebra 3 MATH 115
Introductory Statistics 3 OPRE 202 Statistical Data Analysis
Prerequisites: MATH 1153 -
Upper-Division Business Requirements (31 Credits)
All students in the BSBA program take these Upper-Division Business Required Core Courses. Course No. Title Credits ENTR 305 Entrepreneurship and Innovation 3 FIN 331 Financial Management
Prerequisites: ACCT 201, ECON 200 or 3 hours of micro- or macroeconomics, and MATH 115.3 INSS 300 Management Information Systems 3 INSS 305 Data-Driven Decision Making
Prerequisites: INSS 300 and OPRE 2023 MGMT 301 Management and Organizational Behavior
3 MGMT 302 Global Business Environment
Prerequisites: ECON 200 or ECON 202 and CMAT 201 or CMAT 30303 MGMT 330 Personal and Professional Skills for Business
There is a lab fee associated with this course.
1 MGMT 339 Process and Operations Management
Prerequisite: MATH 1153 MKTG 301 Marketing Management 3 OPRE 315 Business Application of Decision Science
Prerequisite: MATH 111 and Math 1153 MGMT 470 Enterprise Management and Strategy
Prerequisites: all business upper-division core courses / Merrick School of Business student or permission of the instructor.3
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Human Resource Management Specialization Requirements (15 credits)
Choose from five courses from the following to complete the human resources specialization requirements:Course No. Title Credits MGMT 315 Talent Management Principles for Managers 3 MGMT 410 Employment Relations Law 3 MGMT 415 Compensation and Performance Management 3 Approved HRM Elective 3 Approved HRM Elective 3