Nov 02, 2024  
2024-2025 SUNY Potsdam Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 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 pursuing a B.A. degree may count a maximum of 50 credit hours, B.S. degree students may count a maximum of 55 credit hours, and B.F.A. degree students may count a maximum of 60 credit hours of undergraduate work in any one subject code towards the 120 hours required for graduation.
  • Business administration majors must earn a minimum grade of 2.0 in every required, elective, and cognate course counted toward the major. Students may not elect the S/P/U option for any required, elective, and cognate 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 must consult with their advisers.
  • 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.
  • Students pursuing Bachelor of Science degrees must complete a minimum of 75 credits of liberal arts courses.
  • 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. Students should consult their adviser.

Total Credit Hours Required: 42 Plus 9 Credits of Cognates


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