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Business Administration Major Requirements

The Business Administration major at Carroll College requires students to choose a concentration from one of the following options:

  • Economics
  • Finance
  • International Business
  • Management
  • Marketing
Many students will concentration in more than one area, or may even double-major with another department (such as Communications) in order to be more 'marketable' upon graduation.

The requirements below are the foundation courses in Business that all students take, regardless of their concentration.  You may learn more about each concentration requirements by clicking on the links to the left.

Major Program Requirements
Thirty-six semester credits of accounting, business, and economics courses, including:
BA 203-204  Principles of Accounting
BA 301-302  Business Law
BA 306  Marketing
BA 313  Managerial Finance
BA 375  Fundamentals of Management
BA 392  International Business
BA 410  Business Policy
EC 201-202  Principles of Economics
EC 309  Financial Markets and Institutions

Other Program Requirements
CS 213  Computer Applications in Business
or BA 365   Advanced Spreadsheet Applications*
MA 117  Difference Equations & Linear Equations
or MA 131  Calculus of Single Variable Functions
or MA 121-122   Differential and Integral Calculus
MA 207  Elementary Statistics

Note: BA365 fulfills either a course requirement in the finance concentration or the computer requirement. It cannot be counted as both a finance course and the computer course.

Concentration courses may be double counted to fulfill CORE requirements or requirements for other academic majors and still count as a concentration course.  However, each concentration requires the
completion of 3 courses and a concentration course may be applied to only one area of concentration.  It cannot be double counted to fulfill concentration requirements in more than one area of concentration.

Business Administration Minor Requirements

Twenty-one semester credits of business and economics courses, including:
BA 203-204  Principles of Accounting
BA 306  Marketing
BA 313  Managerial Finance
BA 375  Fundamentals of Management
EC 201-202  Principles of Economics