Oct 08, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Business Administration, B.B.A.


Department of Management  
615-898-2736
Deana Raffo, program coordinator
Deana.Raffo@mtsu.edu

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

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

Academic Map


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

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

Degree Requirements


True Blue Core (TBC) 41 hours
College of Business Core 42 hours*
Major Requirements 24 hours
Auxiliary Courses 9 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.

Major Requirements (24 hours)


Financial Analysis (3 hours)


Marketing (6 hours)


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

Auxiliary Courses (9 hours)


Business Elective (3 hours)


Electives (1-10 hours)


Curriculum: Business Administration


Freshman Fall


Subtotal: 14 Hours


Freshman Spring


Subtotal: 16 Hours


Sophomore Fall


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


Subtotal: 15 Hours


NOTE:


*A 2.25 GPA in these courses is required for admission to the Jones College of Business.

§Admission required