Degree Requirements

Students receiving a Bachelor of Business Administration degree must complete a minimum total of 185 Quarter Credit hours of instruction.

Core Curriculum Offerings

Business Administration Degree Offerings

Total Bachelor’s Degree Requirements: 185 Quarter Credit Hours

Areas I, II, III

Core Curriculum Offerings   

Area IV: Business Administration Requirements

65 Quarter Credit Hours (Grade of “C” or better required)

• ACT 201 - Principles of Accounting I
• ACT 202 - Principles of Accounting II
• BSN 101 - Introduction to Business
• BSN 201 - Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility
• BSN 301 - Business Law
• CIM 305 - Management Information Systems
• ECO 201 - Principles of Microeconomics
• ECO 202 - Principles of Macroeconomics
• FIN 303 - Principles of Finance
• MGT 301 - Principles of Management
• MGT 302 - Leadership and Development
• MKT 301 - Principles of Marketing
• MSC 201 - Introduction to Statistics

Area V: Management Requirements

20 Quarter Credit Hours (Grade of “C” or better required)

• MGT 401 - Critical Thinking for Organizational Behavior
• MGT 402 - Human Resource Management
• MGT 415 - Entrepreneurship & Small Business Strategies
• MGT 450 - Systems Theory Applied to Business Policy

Area VI: Management Electives (Concentrations)

30 Quarter Credit Hours (Grade of “C” or better required)

Any combination of the following not previously used toward degree requirements. It is recommended that students choose multiple courses in the same content area to broaden experiences in their Business program:

• BSN 270 - Diversity in Organizations
• CIM 201 - Programming I - Visual Basic
• CIM 204 - Programming IV - Adv. VB
• CIM 230 - CIM Seminars
• CIM 250 - Operating Systems
• CIM 302 - C# Programming
• CIM 310 - Data Communication and Networking
• CIM 330 - Database Design
• CIM 355 - Web Design & Programming
• CIM 350 - Multi-Media Business for Individual & Business Communication
• CIM 370 - Software Project Management
• CIM 405 - Decision Support and Expert Systems
• CIM 410 - System Analysis & Design
• CIM 441-445 - CIM Internship
• CIM 450 - Senior CIM Project I
• HCM 301 - Introduction to Health Care Management
• HCM 350 - Health Care Ethics and Policy
• HCM 401 - Health Care Financing
• MGT 325 - Entrepreneurship and Social Change
• MGT 404 - International Management
• MGT 403 - Labor Relations
• MGT 407 - Public Relations
• MGT 415 - Entrepreneurship & Small Business Strategies
• MGT 430 - Principle of Production * & Operations Management
• MGT 441-445 - Internship
• MGT 455 - Total Quality Management
• MGT 460 - Senior Research Project Report
• MGT 461 - Senior Research Project Report
• MKT 320 - Entrepreneurship and Social Media
• MKT 340 - Marketing Research
• MKT 360 - Advertising and Product Branding
• MKT 450 - International Marketing
• PMT 301 - Principles of Project Management
• PMT 350 - Practices of Project Management
• PMT 450 - Project Management Case Study Capstone

Area VII: General Electives

5 Quarter Credit Hours

Choose any undergraduate course not chosen to this point. May use MGT 441 -MGT 441-445  (with department permission)

Sports Business Minor

The minor in Sports Business is available for students in the Bachelor of Business Administration program, as well as for students majoring in other programs who have an interest in the business of sports. The minor consists of 20 credit hours to include the following courses:

Additional Completion Requirements:

1. Completion of at least four years of prescribed study, of which the last year must be in residence at Life University, with at least 25% of coursework being earned in the last year of residency.
2. Satisfactory completion of all in Areas IV – VI courses with a minimum grade of “C” or better.
3. Satisfactory completion of all courses with a minimum overall cumulative GPA of 2.0.
4. A recommendation for graduation based on completion of the Exit Exam by the Dept. of Business faculty. Once declared a degree candidate by the Registrar’s Office, students will be invited to sit for the Exit Exam session most proximate to his/her eligible graduation ceremony. Failure to apply for graduation and/or failure to sit for the Exit Exam will preclude the student from graduation until the exam is taken at the next biannual Exit Exam session. Under absolutely no circumstances will the Exit Exam be given on an individual basis, remotely, or outside the normally scheduled biannual Exit Exam sessions in Fall and Spring terms.
5. File a petition to graduate.
6. Administrative and student reviews of records
   1. Registrar Office – Complete a formal academic records review
   2. Financial Aid Office – Exit interviews with a Counselor
   3. Student Accounting – “Perkins” Exit interview and rectify account balance
7. Confirm CLP 090, FYE 101  and FYE 103  completion status requirements.