• Recognize entrepreneurial opportunities for new business ventures and evaluate their potential for business success.
• Understand the implementation issues including financial, legal, operational and administrative procedures involved in starting new business ventures.
• Communicate effectively and professionally in business situations through physical or virtual presence, writing, speaking, listening, and electronic media.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead by using team building skills and facilitating collaborative behaviors in the accomplishment of group goals and objectives.
• Recognize basic concepts and theories related to business ethics and social responsibility.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the ethical behavior appropriate to specific business situations.
• Identify and analyze business problems and opportunities and formulate recommendations for courses of action.
• Use quantitative and qualitative tools and methodologies to support organizational decision making.
• Assess how organizations create value in their global supply chains through the integrated production and distribution of goods, services and information.
• Describe the concept of competitive advantage and how it may be achieved through strategic and tactical methods.
• Analyze the information content of organizational processes.
• Define markets and apply marketing concepts and principles using a customer focus to effectively sell products and services.
• Recognize and appropriately respond to ethical, legal and strategic concerns relating to human resource and organizational management.
• Make basic investment and financing decisions for a business using financial management concepts, and methods.

The undergraduate curriculum in business administration reflects the increasingly complex economic, social, and technological aspects of modern business decision-making. Course work emphasizes the development of effective decision-making, an understanding of personal values and motivation, and the awareness of the interrelationships between business and society.

Business Administration major requirements are divided into two parts—lower-division and upper-division. The lower-division business core program involves completion of courses within the first and second year (see core curriculum below) that build a solid foundation for the upper-division business curricula. The lower-division business core course work may be completed at OSU or any accredited college or university that offers equivalent courses transferable to OSU.

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
Summary of Requirements
Lower Division		62
Business Courses (47)
Math, Economics, Writing and Communications (15) 1
Upper Division		37
Business Courses (34)
Writing (3) 2
University General Education Requirements		41
Unrestricted Electives 3		40
Total credits required for graduation		180

1

11 credits from lower-division course work satisfy University General Education Requirements

2

3 credits from the upper-division business core satisfy University General Education Requirements.

3

Options and minors are available to provide specializations

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION CURRICULUM (99)1

The business administration curriculum provides students with a broad overview of business; basic skills in accounting and quantitative methods; an understanding of the legal and social environment of business; a background in management and organizational behavior, marketing, finance, and operations management; an understanding of the entrepreneurial process; and the opportunity to integrate course work and further develop decision-making skills through the analysis of business cases.

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
First Year
Students entering OSU on the Corvallis campus, or at OSU-Cascades are required to complete the following three-course sequence during their first year.		6-9
BA 160	B-ENGAGED
or BA 163	B-ENGAGED
BA 161	INNOVATION NATION--AWARENESS TO ACTION
BA 162	INNOVATION NATION--IDEAS TO REALITY
All other students, including those completing their degree via Ecampus, will complete the following course
BA 101	BUSINESS NOW
All students should also complete:
COMM 111	*PUBLIC SPEAKING	3
or COMM 114	*ARGUMENT AND CRITICAL DISCOURSE
or COMM 218	*INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
MTH 241	*CALCULUS FOR MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCE	4
Second Year 2
BA 281	PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT	3
BA 282	DRAFTING YOUR CAREER BLUEPRINT	1
BA 283	CREATIVITY, CULTURE, AND THE WORKPLACE	1
BA 284	FOUNDATIONS OF PERSONAL FINANCE I	1
BA 211	FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING	4
BA 213	MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING	4
BA 223	PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING	4
or BA 390	PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING
BA 230	BUSINESS LAW I	4
BA 240	FINANCE	4
or BA 360	INTRODUCTION TO FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
BA 260	INTRODUCTION TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP	4
BA 270	BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT	4
BA 275	FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICAL INFERENCE	4
ECON 201	*INTRODUCTION TO MICROECONOMICS	4
ECON 202	*INTRODUCTION TO MACROECONOMICS	4
Third Year
BA 311	FRAMING YOUR CAREER PLAN	1
BA 312	FOUNDATIONS OF PERSONAL FINANCE II	1
BA 313	THE ORANGE AND BLACK CASE COMPETITION	1
BA 347	INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS	4
BA 352	MANAGING INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM PERFORMANCE	4
BA 354	^MANAGING ETHICS AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY	4
BA 357	OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT	4
BA 370	BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS OVERVIEW	4
BA 375	APPLIED QUANTITATIVE METHODS	4
WR 222	*ENGLISH COMPOSITION	3
or WR 323	*ENGLISH COMPOSITION
or WR 327	*TECHNICAL WRITING
Fourth Year
BA 411	NAVIGATING YOUR WORKPLACE	1
BA 412	FINANCIAL PLANNING I	1
BA 413	FINANCIAL PLANNING II	1
BA 466	INTEGRATIVE STRATEGIC EXPERIENCE	4
Total Credits		96-99

*

Baccalaureate Core Course (BCC)

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Writing Intensive Course (WIC)

1

MTH 241; ECON 201 and ECON 202; WR 222, WR 323 or WR 327, and COMM 111, COMM 114 or COMM 218 meet the university's Baccalaureate Core requirements for mathematics, social processes and institutions, writing II, and speech, respectively. All students must meet the other Baccalaureate Core requirements and the other requirements for baccalaureate degrees. (See Requirements for Baccalaureate Degrees.)

2

For students who transfer into College of Business business-related programs, the Blueprint transition courses meet the same outcomes as the professional development (Blueprint) course series accounting for the student’s academic year when they transfer into the business program

Degree plans are subject to change and the following is only an example of how students may complete their degree in four years. Students should consult their advisor to determine the best degree plan for them. Contact details for advisors can be found on the Academic Advising page.

Plan of Study Grid

First Year
FALL		CREDITS
BA 160	B-ENGAGED	3
MTH 111	*COLLEGE ALGEBRA	4
Bacc Core: Science 1		4
WR 121	*ENGLISH COMPOSITION (alpha coded)	4
Bacc Core: PAC		1
	Credits	16
WINTER
BA 161	INNOVATION NATION--AWARENESS TO ACTION	3
MTH 241	*CALCULUS FOR MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCE	4
COMM 111 or COMM 114 or COMM 218	*PUBLIC SPEAKING or *ARGUMENT AND CRITICAL DISCOURSE or *INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION	3
Bacc Core: Science 2		4
	Credits	14
SPRING
BA 162	INNOVATION NATION--IDEAS TO REALITY	3
Bacc Core: Science 3		4
Bacc Core: Literature and The Arts		3
Bacc Core: DPD		3
HHS 231	*LIFETIME FITNESS FOR HEALTH	2
PAC XXX		1
	Credits	16
Second Year
FALL
BA 281	PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT	3
BA 282	DRAFTING YOUR CAREER BLUEPRINT	1
BA 211	FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING	4
ECON 201	*INTRODUCTION TO MICROECONOMICS	4
WR 222 or WR 323 or WR 327	*ENGLISH COMPOSITION or *ENGLISH COMPOSITION or *TECHNICAL WRITING	3
	Credits	15
WINTER
BA 283	CREATIVITY, CULTURE, AND THE WORKPLACE	1
BA 213	MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING	4
BA 230	BUSINESS LAW I	4
BA 275	FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICAL INFERENCE	4
BA 223	PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING	4
	Credits	17
SPRING
BA 240	FINANCE	4
BA 284	FOUNDATIONS OF PERSONAL FINANCE I	1
ECON 202	*INTRODUCTION TO MACROECONOMICS	4
BA 260	INTRODUCTION TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP	4
	Credits	13
Third Year
FALL
BA 311	FRAMING YOUR CAREER PLAN	1
BA 270	BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT	4
BA 347	INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS	4
BA 352	MANAGING INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM PERFORMANCE	4
Bacc Core: Western Culture		3
	Credits	16
WINTER
BA 312	FOUNDATIONS OF PERSONAL FINANCE II	1
BA 354	^MANAGING ETHICS AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY	4
BA 375	APPLIED QUANTITATIVE METHODS	4
Bacc Core: STS		3
Bacc Core: Cultural Diversity		3
	Credits	15
SPRING
BA 313	THE ORANGE AND BLACK CASE COMPETITION	1
BA 357	OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT	4
BA 370	BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS OVERVIEW	4
Bacc Core: CGI		3
Option/Elective		3
	Credits	15
Fourth Year
FALL
BA 411	NAVIGATING YOUR WORKPLACE	1
Option/Electives		13
	Credits	14
WINTER
BA 412	FINANCIAL PLANNING I	1
Option/Electives		13
	Credits	14
SPRING
BA 413	FINANCIAL PLANNING II	1
BA 466	INTEGRATIVE STRATEGIC EXPERIENCE	4
Option/Electives		10
	Credits	15
	Total Credits	180