Aug 02, 2025  
2025-2026 SUNY Potsdam Academic Catalog 
    
2025-2026 SUNY Potsdam Academic Catalog

Business Administration, B.S.


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The Business Administration major provides future business professionals and community leaders with strong theoretical foundations and practical applications of the functional areas of business: accounting, marketing, finance, operations, and management, while also providing an understanding of the business enterprise as a whole.

These programs are focused on enabling students to use business technologies while they acquire the skills needed to succeed in a competitive, global, knowledge-based environment. Students will be required to complete 10 courses across the functional areas and 4 elective courses which can either be across functional areas or used to concentrate in one functional area.

Program Student Learning Outcomes:

Business Administration B.S. students will be able to:

   • develop the ability to create critical and effective business plans that integrate multiple business skills including management, marketing, technology, and finance, in the US and globally.
   • demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively in business situations, in writing and in oral presentations.
   • master the ability to solve business problems through quantitative analysis and the understanding of financial and operational approaches to analysis.
   • demonstrate an understanding of and ability to address the challenges of a diverse group of people inside a modern formal organization.

Program Requirements


Elective Courses: 12 Credits


four courses from the following

Note(s)


  • Students graduating with an Business Administration major (B.S.) must complete the major requirements with at least a 2.0/S grade in each course. 
  • Occasionally, special topic courses in business administration are offered in ACCT, FINA, MGMT and MKTG with codes 395 or 495. These courses may be counted as business administration electives. 
  • Students may not double-count more than two common courses between any majors or minors in the Department of Business Administration and any other department. Cognate requirements are excluded from this rule.
  • Students must take a minimum of nine courses (27 credits) for the Business Administration major at SUNY Potsdam. Of these, they must have taken a minimum of five upper division courses (15 credits of 300- or 400-level courses) for the business administration major at SUNY Potsdam.
  • All 300 and 400 level ACCT, FINA, MGMT, and MKTG courses require at least Junior standing with the exception of courses numbered 301.
  • Business Administration students who minor in Finance can only double count the following courses: ACCT 201 ACCT 202 , and FINA 301 
  • Up to 3 credits of internship in ACCT, FINA, MGMT, and MKTG may be counted toward the electives. 
  • MGMT 490  is the capstone course that must be taken in Senior year.
  • Under advisement other courses may count as business electives.

Total Credit Hours Required: 42 Plus 9 Credits of Cognates


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