Bachelor of Business Administration in Business Administration
The Business Administration major is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to lead a family business, work in a startup environment, management consulting, and a plethora of business generalist roles. The Business Administration major offers students the greatest flexibility of business majors in selecting courses, and a faster path to graduation for incoming transfer students. Through their elective courses, Business Administration majors may also focus their curriculum toward specific areas of interest such as marketing and sales; finance; small business creation and management; and analytics.
UP Core Requirements — 40 credit hours
All University of Portland students progress through a set of shared course options as part of the University’s liberal arts Core Curriculum. This curriculum offers a foundation of multiple lenses to address enduring questions of human concern, integrating the liberal arts, the University mission, and the knowledge, skills, and values needed in a diverse society and in the workplace.
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Two of the three core requirements in the Science & Problem Solving Habit are satisfied by ECN 120 and the mathematics requirements within the major.
Writing in the Discipline courses for the B.B.A. in Business Administration include BUS 250 and one of the following: BUS 456, BUS 465, BUS 468, BUS 471, or ECN 425.
Business Requirements — 53 credit hours
Non-Business Courses - 9 credit hours
P4 Professional Development Requirements - 3 credit hours
| BUS 202 | Professional Development | 1 |
| BUS 302 | Internship Preparation | 1 |
| BUS 397 | Professional Development Internship | 1 |
Business Foundation Lower Division - 31 credit hours
| BUS 100 | Introduction to Leadership Skills | 3 |
| BUS 101 | Software Applications Workshop | 1 |
| BUS 104 | Math for Business and Analytics I | 2 |
| ECN 120 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
| ECN 121 | Principles of Microeconomics | 3 |
| BUS 200 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| BUS 204 | Math for Business and Analytics II | 1 |
| BUS 205 | Foundations of Finance | 3 |
| BUS 209 | Financial Accounting | 3 |
| BUS 210 | Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| BUS 250 | Legal and Social Responsibility in Business | 3 |
| BUS 255 | Introduction to Operations & Technology Management | 3 |
Business Foundation Upper Division - 6 credit hours
Major Requirements — 27 credit hours
Required Courses - 9 credit hours
Major Electives - 18 credit hours
Students complete 18 credit hours of 300 or 400 level BUS or ECN courses, one of which must be a Writing in the Discipline course.
Any additional credit hours required to complete a minimum of 120 credit hours
Global Acumen Requirements - 7 credit hours
| BUS 360 | Cross Cultural Organizational Behavior and Ethics | 3 |
| BUS 496 | Meaningful International Experience | 1 |
| | Any 300-400 level course with international focus | 3 |
Total Credit Hours: 120