Five-Year Undergraduate/Master of Business Administration Program

The Five-Year Undergraduate/Master of Business Administration Program is open to all undergraduate majors. The program articulates undergraduate and graduate study so that students can graduate after five years with a Bachelor’s degree in their chosen major plus a Master of Business Administration degree. The program requires 120-141 hours of undergraduate work and 30-33 hours of graduate work.

• Business majors complete all undergraduate degree requirements, except for BUSI 497, Business Policy and Strategy.
  
  
• This program enables accounting majors to earn the M.B.A. degree while accumulating the 150 hours of college credit required to take the C.P.A. examination.
  
  
• Economics and non-business majors complete all undergraduate degree requirements for their program, with the final undergraduate requirements being met during the last semester of the 5th year.

A maximum of 12 graduate hours may be waived for students who complete an undergraduate principles-level business course and an appropriate second-level course for each M.B.A. course waived. Non-business/non-economics undergraduate majors will need to complete the necessary undergraduate business and economics courses to qualify for waived hours; these undergraduate courses would constitute a business minor (plus 6 hours) for approximately 21 additional hours as follows: BUSI 111, 114, 131, 141, ECON 120, an elective Business management course, and an elective Business Marketing course. In addition, ECON 250 is strongly recommended for non-business/non-economics majors.

Courses subject to waiver are for:

• Accounting (C.M.A. and C.P.A. track) majors: BUSI 510, 530, 540, and 610 (12 hours)
  
• Business Administration majors: BUSI 510, 530, and 540 (9 hours)
  
• Economics majors: BUSI 510, 530, 540, and 560 (12 hours)
  
• Finance majors: BUSI 510, 520, 530, and 620 (12 hours)
  
• International Business majors: BUSI 510, 520, 530, and 540 (12 hours)
  
• Management majors: BUSI 510, 530, 540, and 630 (12 hours)
  
• Marketing majors: BUSI 510, 530, 540, and 640 (12 hours)
  
• Non-business/non-economics majors: BUSI 510, 530, and 540 (9 hours)

*BUSI 530 will be waived if the student completes a management course at the 200-level or above (other than BUSI 232)

*BUSI 540 will be waived if the student completes a marketing course at the 200-level or above (other than BUSI 340)

Students who have earned a 3.0 cumulative grade point average and are interested in the Five- Year Undergraduate/ Master of Business Administration Program must make application to the Director of the M.B.A. Program during their junior year. The M.B.A. Admissions Committee will notify students of its decisions. Admission to the college does not automatically admit students to the M.B.A. Program. Students admitted to the program may begin taking M.B.A. courses during their fourth year, or they may choose to begin graduate courses during the summer between years four and five. Non-business/ Non-economics majors must complete all requirements for their chosen major in addition to 21 undergraduate business/economics hours and 33 graduate business hours; it is strongly recommended that these students take ECON 120 to satisfy their Social Sciences requirement and either BUSI 234 or BUSI 244 to satisfy their Global Cultural Studies requirement.

Students in the Five-Year Program who wish to be awarded the bachelor’s degree before the end of the five-year program will be required to complete all undergraduate degree requirements (including BUSI 497 for business majors) and will forfeit all course waivers for the five-year program unless the student maintains continuous enrollment in each academic semester in the M.B.A. program following the end of the undergraduate coursework.