All students, regardless of their major, who intend to earn a B.B.A. degree must take 18 semester hours of required courses of which 15 may also be used to fulfill General Education requirements and 30 semester hours of Business Core courses.

Required Courses: 18 hrs.

*COMM 114. Public Speaking or COMM 240. Teamwork and Communication 3
*STAT 200. Introduction to Statistics 3
*ECON 105. Principles of Economics 3
*ECON 106. Principles of Economics 3
*ITEC 100. Information Technology 3
  MATH 126. Business Calculus or Math 151. Calculus and Analytic Geometry I 3

*These courses may also be used to satisfy General Education requirements, and the college recommends they be used in this way.

Business Core 30 hrs.

ACTG 211. Fundamentals of Financial Accounting . 3
ACTG 212. Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting . 3
BLAW 203. Legal Environment of Business. 3
ECON 340. Global Economy and Business. 3
MGNT 322. Organizational Behavior. 3
MGNT 357. Operations Management. 3
MGNT 333. Statistical Decision Support. 3
FINC 331. Introduction to Business Finance. 3
MKTG 340. Principles of Marketing. 3
MGNT 428. Business Policy and Strategy. 3

PRE-BUSINESS PROGRAM  56hrs (minimum)

    Before being admitted to a business major, all students pursuing the B.B.A. degree must complete the Pre-business Program. Most of the program consists of courses in the university’s General Education requirements and in the B.B.A. requirements listed above. Students who wish to major in business are classified as pre-accounting, pre-finance, pre-management, or pre-marketing, or, if they have not yet decided on a specific field within business, pre-business until they have completed the pre-business course requirements and have a GPA of at least 2.0 in the eight lower-division business and economics courses designated with an asterisk (*) in the following list.

Pre-business Program – a minimum of 56 hours, including the following:
*ACTG 211. Fundamentals of Financial Accounting. 3
*ACTG 212. Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting. 3
*BLAW 203. Legal Environment of Business. 3
*ECON 105,*106. Principles of Economics. 3, 3
*ITEC 100. Information Technology. 3
 ENGL 101. Introduction to Expository Writing. 3
 ENGL 102. Reading, Writing and Research Skills. 3
 Laboratory Science (See General Education, p. 64). 4:4
*MATH 126. Business Calculus, or Math 151. Calculus and Analytic Geometry I. 3
 COMM 114. Public Speaking. or COMM 240. Teamwork and Communication . 3
*STAT 200. Business Statistics 3
 Other electives or required courses. 15

   Pre-business students are placed in the “LBUS” category during the term in which they expect to complete all pre-business requirements and allowed to register conditionally for upper division
business and economics courses for the next term. Final acceptance into a business major and enrollment in upper-division business and economics courses is dependent upon verification that all pre-business requirements have been met with a 2.0 average for the eight courses as indicated by an asterisk(*).

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS

    Students must have a grade point average ( GPA) of at least 2.0 in all courses taken at Radford to graduate with the B.B.A. degree. In addition, students must have at least a 2.0 GPA in all major courses taken at Radford. For the purpose of computing the major GPA, the major is defined as ECON 105, 106, all business core courses and the 18 to 30 hours prescribed for the major by the department. At least 50 percent (60 semester hours), including up to nine hours of economics, must be in courses taught outside the College of Business and Economics. In addition, at least 50 percent of the business courses required for the B.B.A. degree must be taken at Radford University. Business courses are defined as those having the prefix ACTG, BLAW, ECON, FINC, MGNT, or MKTG. Students earning a business minor must earn a GPA of at least 2.00 in the courses comprising the minor. Courses in a minor are defined under each category. At least 50 percent of the business courses required for a minor must be taken at Radford University.

(For degree requirements under other catalogs consult the appropriate catalog, visit the Business Advising Center or check the option sheets)