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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Management and Leadership, B.B.A.


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Management  
615-494-8672
Leigh Anne Clark, program coordinator
la.clark@mtsu.edu

A major in Management and Leadership consists of 27 hours of management courses. All Management and Leadership majors must have 50 percent of the required management and leadership courses in residence at Middle Tennessee State University.

Students interested in careers in management and leadership will complete a core of classes in leadership skills, human resources management, organization behavior, managing key performance indicators, and ethical leadership as a foundation for the major. Students may choose from among a list of electives to gain skills in the areas of leading change/innovation, leading organizations/teams, global mindset, and decision making/problem solving.

The program below includes a required Business Administration 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 Management and Leadership who intend to pursue a master’s degree in Management (M.S.) may apply to participate in the Accelerated Bachelors/Masters (ABM) pathway. The pathway allows undergraduate students an opportunity to complete select requirements for both the bachelor’s and master’s degrees simultaneously. Upon successful completion of the ABM pathway, students must submit an application (including application fee) to the graduate program. Additional application requirements will be waived, and the student will be admitted to the program automatically. For more information about the ABM pathway, see the Graduate Catalog.

Academic Map


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

Management and Leadership, B.B.A., Academic Map   

Degree Requirements


True Blue Core (TBC) 41 hours
College of Business Core 42 hours*
Major Requirements 27 hours
Auxiliary Courses 6 hours*
Business Elective 3 hours
Electives 1-10 hours
TOTAL 120 hours

*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours will increase.

True Blue Core (41 hours)


True Blue Core (TBC)  requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

The following courses required by the program meet True Blue Core requirements:

College of Business Core (42 hours)


All students must complete the College of Business Core  which requires 42 hours with a 2.000 GPA.

Management and Leadership Required Electives (12 hours)


Choose one from each area.

Auxiliary Courses (6 hours)


Business Elective (3 hours)


Electives (1-10 hours)


Curriculum: Management and Leadership


Freshman Fall


Subtotal: 14 Hours


Freshman Spring


Subtotal: 16 Hours


Sophomore Fall


  • 3 credit hours *
  • History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
  • Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
  • Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
  • Elective 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours


Sophomore Spring


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Senior Fall


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Senior Spring


Subtotal: 15 Hours


NOTE:


 *2.25 GPA in these courses for admission to Jones College of Business

  §Admission required

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