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

Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship, B.B.A.


Management   
615-898-5770
Joshua Aaron, program coordinator
Joshua.Aaron@mtsu.edu

The major in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship offers preparation to students for successful venture creation and implementation and provides them opportunities to acquire the necessary operational knowledge to start a new enterprise and to study business communication, marketing, finance, management, economics, accounting, and information systems from an entrepreneurial perspective. The curriculum is flexible-students may tailor the program to fit specific needs while acquiring the business background necessary for pursuing entrepreneurial goals. Successful business professionals contribute to the program and an advisory board of recognized entrepreneurial leaders mentors students. Specialized courses, an internship, and interaction with acknowledged business leaders are intended to provide the impetus to start and operate a successful business.

A major in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship consists of 30 hours, 50 percent of which must be taken in residence at MTSU.

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.

Academic Map


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

Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship, B.B.A., Academic Map   

Degree Requirements


True Blue Core (TBC) 41 hours
College of Business Core 42 hours*
Major Requirements 30 hours
Auxiliary Course 3 hours*
Business Course 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.

Auxiliary Course (3 hours)


Business Elective (3 hours)


Electives (1-10 hours)


Curriculum: Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship


Freshman Fall


Subtotal: 14 Hours


Freshman Spring


Subtotal: 16 Hours


Sophomore Fall


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Sophomore Spring


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Senior Spring


Subtotal: 15 Hours


NOTE:


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

 § Admission required