Business Administration, B.B.A.

A major in Business Administration consists of 24 semester hours (50 percent taken at MTSU).

The program below includes an Economics and Finance minor. An alternate business minor may be chosen, but it may require total hours for graduation to exceed 120.

Required Courses (24 hours)

Financial Analysis (3 hours)

ACTG 3020 - Managerial Accounting 3 credit hours OR
ACTG 3110 - Intermediate Accounting I 3 credit hours OR
ACTG 3310 - Cost Accounting 3 credit hours

Management (6 hours)

Select 3 hours:
MGMT 3630 - Organization Theory 3 credit hours OR
MGMT 3810 - Human Resources Management 3 credit hours OR
MGMT 4680 - Organization Behavior 3 credit hours
Select 3 hours:
MGMT 3640 - Introduction to Management Science 3 credit hours OR
MGMT 3710 - Management of Quality 3 credit hours OR
MGMT 3730 - Management of Innovation 3 credit hours OR
MGMT 3750 - Supply Chain Management 3 credit hours OR
MGMT 3770 - Operations Simulation 3 credit hours OR
MGMT 4610 - Advanced Operations Management 3 credit hours OR
MGMT 4700 - Problems in Operations Management 3 credit hours

Marketing (6 hours)

Any 6 hours of upper-division Marketing electives except /, , , or .

Business Environment (9 hours)

Select 3 hours:
BLAW 3430 - Commercial Law 3 credit hours OR
BLAW 3460 - Insurance Law 3 credit hours OR
BLAW 4450 - Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection 3 credit hours OR
BLAW 4490 - Industrial Relations Legislation 3 credit hours OR
BLAW 4500 - Employment Discrimination Law 3 credit hours
Select 3 hours:
MGMT 4710 - International Business 3 credit hours OR
MKT 4710 - International Business 3 credit hours OR
ECON 4440 - International Economics 3 credit hours
Select 3 hours:
MKT 3930 - Marketing Research 3 credit hours OR
MGMT 3890 - Managerial Decision Making 3 credit hours

Curriculum: Business Administration

Curricular listings include requirements in Communication, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences categories.

Freshman

ENGL 1010 - Expository Writing 3 credit hours (Comm)
ENGL 1020 - Research and Argumentative Writing 3 credit hours (Comm)
MATH 1630 - College Mathematics for Managerial, Social, and Life Sciences 3 credit hours (Math) OR
MATH 1810 - Applied Calculus I 3 credit hours (Math)
COMM 2200 - Fundamentals of Communication 3 credit hours (Comm)
Natural Sciences (2 prefixes) 8 credit hours
ECON 2410 - Principles of Economics, Macroeconomics 3 credit hours (Soc/Beh Sci) *
ECON 2420 - Principles of Economics, Microeconomics 3 credit hours *
Elective(s) 4 credit hours

Subtotal: 30 Hours

Sophomore

ENGL 2020 - Themes in Literature and Culture 3 credit hours (Hum/FA) OR
ENGL 2030 - The Experience of Literature 3 credit hours (Hum/FA) OR
HUM 2610 - Foreign Literature in Translation 3 credit hours (Hum/FA)
Humanities and/or Fine Arts (2 prefixes) 6 credit hours
Social/Behavioral Sciences 3 credit hours
ACTG 2110 - Principles of Accounting I 3 credit hours *
ACTG 2120 - Principles of Accounting II 3 credit hours
QM 2610 - Statistical Methods I 3 credit hours *
Elective 3 credit hours
Choose 6 hours from:
HIST 2010 - Survey of United States History I 3 credit hours OR
HIST 2020 - Survey of United States History II 3 credit hours OR
HIST 2030 - Tennessee History 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 30 Hours

Junior

QM 3620 - Statistical Methods II 3 credit hours
INFS 3100 - Principles of Management Information Systems 3 credit hours
MGMT 3610 - Principles of Management 3 credit hours
MGMT 3620 - Operations Management 3 credit hours
MKT 3820 - Principles of Marketing 3 credit hours
BCEN 3510 - Business Communication 3 credit hours
FIN 3010 - Business Finance 3 credit hours