B.S. in Business Administration

Contact Person:

Joe Timmerman, Chair
212 Dunn, (315) 267-2219, timmerja@potsdam.edu


42 credit hours required. Plus 9 credits of cognates.

All courses are 3 credits unless noted. Credits are divided as follows:                                                                                                                                                           

Required Courses   30
ACCT 201 Principles of Accounting I  
ACCT 202 Principles of Accounting II  
FINA 301 Finance  
MGMT 301 Principles of Management  
MKTG 301 Principles of Marketing  
MGMT 310
 Organizational Behavior and Ethics
  
MGMT 330 Legal Environment of Business  
MGMT 340 Information Systems for Business  
MGMT 410 Operations Management  
MGMT 490 Strategic and Global Management  

Elective Courses: four courses from the following
12
ACCT 301 Intermediate Accounting I  
ACCT 302 Intermediate Accounting II  
ACCT 360 Federal Individual Taxation  
ACCT 385 Managerial Accounting  
ACCT 395 Special Topics in Accounting (1-12 credits)  
ACCT 450 Fraud Examination  
ACCT 485 Cost Management  
ACCT 491 Internship  
ACCT 495 Special Topics in Accounting (1-12 credits)  
FINA 320 Management of Risk and Insurance  
FINA 395 Special Topics in Finance (1-12 credits)  
FINA 410 Investments and Portfolio Analysis  
FINA 460 Financial Statement Analysis  
FINA 491 Internship  
FINA 495 Special Topics in Finance (1-12 credits)  
MGMT 312 Ethical Issues in Business  
MGMT 320 International Business  
MGMT 360 Corporate Law  
MGMT 370 Entrepreneurship  
MGMT 395 Special Topics in Management (1-12 credits)  
MGMT 420 Leadership in Organizations  
MGMT 445 Mergers and Acquisitions  
MGMT 491 Internship  
MGMT 495 Special Topics in Management (1-12 credits)  
MKTG 320 Principles of Advertising and Promotion  
MKTG 330 Marketing Research  
MKTG 370 Business-to-Business Marketing  
MKTG 395 Special Topics in Marketing (1-12 credits)  
MKTG 430 Global Marketing Management
  
MKTG 491 Internship  
MKTG 495
 Special Topics in Marketing (1-12 credits)  

Cognate Requirements		  
9



ECON 105 Principles of Microeconomics  
ECON 110 Principles of Macroeconomics  
MATH 125, STAT 100, or CIS 125 Statistics Course  

Special Notes

  1. Business administration students must meet the same General Education requirements as students pursuing Bachelors of Arts degrees at SUNY Potsdam. However, Bachelor of Science students only need 65 credit hours outside the Department of Business Administration, instead of 70. Courses with subject codes ACCT, FINA, MGMT and MKTG are considered inside the department.
  2. 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/U option for any required, elective, and cognate course.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Students must take a minimum of 9 courses (27 credits) for the business administration major at SUNY Potsdam. Of these, they
    must have taken a minimum of 5 upper division courses (15 credits of 300- or 400-level courses) for the business administration
    major at SUNY Potsdam.
  6. Students pursuing Bachelor of Science degrees must complete a minimum of 75 credits of liberal arts courses. Non-liberal arts courses are designated in course descriptions with the “@” symbol.
  7. All 300 and 400 level ACCT, FINA, MGMT, and MKTG courses require at least junior standing with the exception of MGMT 301.
  8. Up to 3 credits of internship in ACCT, FINA, MGMT, and MKTG may be counted toward the electives.
  9. MGMT 301 and 310 are Speaking-Intensive (SI) unless taken online.
  10. MGMT 490 is Writing-Intensive (WI). It is also the capstone course that must be taken in senior year.
  11. Under advisement other courses may count as business electives. Students should consult their adviser.