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Business Administration · B.S.

Business Administration: four-year plan

A sample term-by-term path to the B.S. in Business Administration.

How to read this plan

This is a sample path to the B.S. in Business Administration in four years at about 15–16 credits per term. Your actual plan depends on placement, transfer credit, a chosen concentration, and when courses are offered — build it with your adviser and check it against your degree audit. Course numbers link to the catalog.

Year 1 · Fall 14 credits

  • UNIV 1000 First-Year Seminar (1 cr)
  • ENGL 1010 Composition I (3 cr)
  • MATH 1400 Precalculus (4 cr)
  • BUS 1000 Introduction to Business (3 cr)
  • ENGL 1010 Composition I (3 cr)

Year 1 · Spring 15 credits

  • ENGL 1020 Composition II (3 cr)
  • MATH 1600 Introductory Statistics (3 cr)
  • BUS 2100 Financial Accounting (3 cr)
  • ENGL 1020 Composition II (3 cr)
  • COMM 1100 Public Speaking (3 cr)

Year 2 · Fall 16 credits

  • MATH 2400 Calculus I (4 cr)
  • ACCT 2100 Financial Accounting (3 cr)
  • BUS 2200 Managerial Accounting (3 cr)
  • Fine Arts elective (3 cr)
  • Humanities elective (3 cr)

Year 2 · Spring 15 credits

  • ACCT 2200 Managerial Accounting (3 cr)
  • BUS 2400 Principles of Marketing (3 cr)
  • Social Science elective (3 cr)
  • Global Perspectives elective (3 cr)
  • PHIL 2300 Ethics (3 cr)

Year 3 · Fall 11 credits

  • MKTG 2400 Principles of Marketing (3 cr)
  • BUS 2600 Principles of Management (3 cr)
  • BUS 3100 Business Finance (3 cr)
  • Wellness elective (2 cr)

Year 3 · Spring 16 credits

  • ACCT 3100 Intermediate Accounting I (4 cr)
  • FIN 3100 Business Finance (3 cr)
  • Free elective (3 cr)
  • COOP 2000 Cooperative Education (recommended) (0 cr)
  • Free elective (3 cr)

Year 4 · Fall 13 credits

Year 4 · Spring 12 credits

  • MKTG 3200 Digital Marketing (3 cr)
  • BUS 3300 Operations Management (3 cr)
  • ENGL 1010 Composition I (3 cr)
  • ENGL 1020 Composition II (3 cr)

Fictional information

UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. This four-year plan and every course in it is invented.