This online Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, Professional Business Concentration is designed primarily for business professionals who plan to become effective managers dealing with processes and people. The concentration is targeted toward students who wish to gain a solid understanding of fundamental business disciplines. Students will be exposed to core elements of business and will be able to function in careers such as general management, international business, financial operations, general consulting and government. Students in this program prefer a general degree rather than specialized concentrations (Accounting, Finance, etc.).

Completion of a business undergraduate degree provides preparation for a diverse range of careers including: social work, politics, law, public administration, urban and environmental planning, public relations, personnel, criminal justice, counseling and other service professions.

Admission Requirements

The BA in Business Administration (BABA) online degree completion program requires incoming students to have 60 transferable semester units from one or more community colleges, or other accredited institutions and a minimum 2.50 cumulative grade point average. The 60 units should be comprised of CSU general education requirements and CSUF lower division business courses (listed below) or approved equivalents.

The degree completion program is comprised of 60 upper-division semester units (20 courses), requiring students to have a minimum of 120 units to be eligible for graduation. Students will also be required to pass the Examination in Writing Proficiency (EWP) prior to attaining senior status. For a complete listing of official graduation requirements, please consult the CSUF Catalog.

To begin the BABA program, you need 60 transferable units (90 quarter units) which include:

  -A minimum of 30 semester units (45 quarter units) in CSU-approved general education (GE) course    work with a grade of C or better.

• The GE must include classes from the “Golden Four” requirements:
  • Oral Communication
  • Written Communication
  • Critical Thinking
  • Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning

For any questions about GE requirements or pre-application advising:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CSUFTransferCenter
Phone: 657.278.3358
Email: transfer@fullerton.edu

  -Lower Division Business Core Classes with a grade of C or better(24 Units)

• Accounting 201A: Financial Accounting
• Accounting 201B: Managerial Accounting
• BusAd 201: Business Writing
• Economics 201: Principles of Microeconomics
• Economics 202: Principles of Macroeconomics
• Management 246: Business & Its Legal Environment
• ISDS 265: Intro to Info Systems and Applications
• Math 135 or 130: Business Calculus

Please email PBCOnline@fullerton.edu for business requirements pre-application advising.

  -Good academic standing at the last college or university attended

Degree Requirements For BA in Professional Business

Key Features:

• 3 years to complete
• One class taken at a time (except for Summer terms and where GE is scheduled)
• All courses will be 8-weeks in length

Required Upper-Division Core (24 units)

BUAD 301	Advanced Business Communications
ECON 315 or ECON 320	Intermediate Business Microeconomic or Intermediate Macroeconomics
FIN 320	Business Finance
MGMT 339	Principles of Management & Operations
MGMT 340	Organizational Behavior
ISDS 361A	Quantitative Business Analysis: Probability and Statistics
ISDS 361B	Quantitative Business Analysis: Statistics and Management Science
MKTG 351	Principles of Marketing

Capstone Core Course (3 units)

MGMT 449	Seminar in Strategic Management

Collateral Requirement (3 units)

Global Business Course - Econ 335	International Economy

Professional Business Concentration Requirements (18 units)

ACCT 308	Concepts of Federal Income Tax Accounting
ECON 340	Economic Research Methods
FIN 332	Theory of Corporate Finance
ISDS 442	Business Modeling Using Spreadsheets
MGMT 343	Human Resources
MKTG 379	Marketing Research

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Advising:

For students who have been admitted to the program and have program related questions, contact Jenny Zhang (jzhang@fullerton.edu), the Program Advisor. For technology or functionality questions, please refer to Online Support.