Program: Business Administration, B.B.A. - Middle Tennessee State University

Apr 07, 2025

2019-20 Undergraduate Catalog

Department of Management
615-898-2736
Jill Austin, program coordinator
Jill.Austin@mtsu.edu

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.

Accelerated Bachelors/Masters (ABM) Program

High achieving students majoring in Business Administration who intend to pursue a master’s degree in Business Administration may apply to participate in the Accelerated Bachelors/Masters (ABM) Program. The program allows undergraduate students an opportunity to complete the requirements for both the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in a compressed time frame. Participating undergraduate students may count up to 12 graduate credit hours toward both degrees and obtain a non-thesis master’s degree in the same field within 12 months of completing the bachelor’s degree or obtain a thesis-based master’s degree in the same field within 18 months of completing the bachelor’s degree. For more information about the ABM program, see the Graduate Catalog.

Academic Map

Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Business Administration, B.B.A., Academic Map

Degree Requirements

General Education (41 hours)

General Education requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in Communication, History, Humanities and/or /fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences.

The following courses are required by the program and can satisfy the respective General Education requirement:

MATH 1630 or 1810 (Math)
ECON 2410 (Soc/Beh Sci and core course)

College of Business Core (42 hours)

All students must complete the College of Business Core which requires 42 hours with a 2.000 GPA. ECON 2410 is included in the core and will also satisfy 3 hours from the Social/Behavioral General Education requirement.

Major Requirements (24 hours)

Financial Analysis (3 hours)

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

Management (6 hours)

Select 3 hours:
MGMT 3630 - Organization Theory 3 credit hours
MGMT 3810 - Human Resources Management 3 credit hours
MGMT 4680 - Organization Behavior 3 credit hours
Select 3 hours:
MGMT 3640 - Managing Key Performance Indicators 3 credit hours
MGMT 3705 - Continuous Improvement/Problem Solving 3 credit hours
MGMT 3710 - Management of Quality 3 credit hours
MGMT 3715 - International Sourcing 3 credit hours
MGMT 3720 - Supply Chain Distribution 3 credit hours
MGMT 3725 - Lean Project Management Principles 3 credit hours
MGMT 3730 - Management of Innovation 3 credit hours
MGMT 3750 - International Supply Chain Management 3 credit hours
MGMT 4700 - Applications in Supply Chain Management 3 credit hours

Marketing (6 hours)

Upper-division MKT electives (except MKT 3010 and MKT 4990 ) 6 credit hours

Business Environment (9 hours)

Select 3 hours:
BLAW 3430 - Commercial Law 3 credit hours
BLAW 3460 - Insurance Law 3 credit hours
BLAW 4470 - Real Property Law for Commerce and Agriculture 3 credit hours
BLAW 4490 - Industrial Relations Legislation 3 credit hours
BLAW 4500 - Employment Discrimination Law 3 credit hours
Select 3 hours:
MGMT 4710 - International Business 3 credit hours
MKT 4510 - International Marketing 3 credit hours
ECON 4440 - International Economics 3 credit hours
Select 3 hours:
MKT 3930 - Marketing Research 3 credit hours
MGMT 3890 - Managerial Decision Making 3 credit hours

Auxiliary Courses (12 hours)

MATH 1630 - College Mathematics for Managerial, Social, and Life Sciences 3 credit hours (may be counted in General Education) OR
MATH 1810 - Applied Calculus I 3 credit hours (may be counted in General Education)
ECON upper-division course 3 credit hours
FIN upper-division course 3 credit hours
Business elective 3 credit hours

Electives

To make 120 hours

Total hours in program: 120

Curriculum: Business Administration

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