B.S. Business Administration

The Business Administration Major with a sequence allows students to focus on areas such as management, accounting, marketing, management information systems, or financial services. The Business Administration Major with a sequence permits students to freely fashion their study to meet their professional and personal needs. The curriculum contains sufficient flexibility to meet most needs and expectations of the students, both those who intend to go on to graduate school and those who seek immediate entrance into the profession.

Courses Required for the Major in Business Administration

Course # Title	Course # Title
ACC 101 Principles of Accounting	BUS 360 Mgmt Human Resources
BUS 205 Macroeconomics	BUS 371 Managerial Finance
BUS 206 Microeconomics	BUS 415 International Business
BUS 208 Principles of Management	MIS 110 Intro to Information Systems
BUS 269 Principles of Marketing
BUS 300 Quantitative Methods I
BUS 306 Organizational Behavior
BUS 352 Business Law

Select 5 courses (15 credits) from one of the following areas:

Accounting Sequence Courses

ACC 310 Cost Accounting
ACC 340 Intermediate Accounting I
ACC 341 Intermediate Accounting II
ACC 342 Intermediate Accounting III
ACC 401 Taxes I
ACC 402 Taxes II
ACC 410 Auditing
ACC 440 Advanced Financial Accounting
ACC 472 Acct.Internship (required)

Management Sequence Courses

BUS 307 Management Science
BUS 350 Money and Banking
BUS 406 Current Issues & Trends in Business
BUS 420 Small Business Mgmt.
BUS 465 Special Topics in Business
BUS 491 Seminar in Business Policies (required)
ACC 311 Managerial Accounting

Marketing Sequence Courses

BUS 304 Sales and Sales Management
BUS 321 Product/Service Marketing
BUS 340 Advertising and Sales Promotion
BUS 401 Channel Strategies
BUS 402 Pricing Strategies
BUS 403 Strategic Marketing (required)
BUS 450 Marketing Research

Financial Services Sequence Courses

(all five courses are required for this sequence)

BUS 135 Introduction to Financial Services
BUS 304 Sales and Sales Management
BUS 350 Money and Banking
BUS 355 Principles of Risk & Insurance
BUS 434 Investments & Investment Management

MIS Sequence Courses

MIS 101 Programming I
MIS 121 Programming II
MIS 200 Systems Analysis, Design,& Implementation
MIS 220 Applied Networking Design
MIS 231 Intro. To File Processing
MIS 310 Managerial Applications of OOP I
MIS 312 Software Engineering
MIS 432 Data Base Mgmt. Systems Design
MIS 491 Information Tech. Management (required)

Select Specialization

The select specialization is available only to transfer students with a minimum of 15 completed credit hours (grade of "C" or better) in a business-related field not offered at Misericordia University. Students with credits in a business-related field not offered at Misericordia University may apply these credits as a sequence in the business administration major.

General Business Specialization

BUS 491
Any four courses in ACC, BUS, or MIS at the 300 level or above.

A review of the student's transcript will determine which courses completed at other institutions are equivalent to the course requirements. In addition to completing the major courses, students will be required to complete additional liberal arts electives as part of the core curriculum.

Total credits for degree completion: 120