College of Business
The College of Business seeks to prepare men and women for professional careers in business, government, and nonprofit organizations. Consistent with its mission, the college provides a base of liberal education needed by all educated persons in our society, business- oriented instruction in professional fields, and a close association with other colleges to promote knowledge and understanding from a variety of sources.
Business instruction and research revolve around three themes: preparing the manager for a variety of business activities; developing analytical skills; and fostering a critical awareness of the social, political, and economic environment in which decisions are made.
The academic departments offer major fields of study in accounting, business law, finance, general business, human resource management, international business, management, management information systems, marketing, operations, and small business entrepreneurship. A major in business economics is also available.
The College of Business has been an accredited member of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business since 1950.
The Society of Alumni and Friends of the College of Business, made up of graduates, friends, and former students of the college, functions as the alumni relations arm of the college. Since 1982 this society has provided innovative and meaningful alumni involvement in sponsorship, planning and support, alumni awards, recruitment, etc. The 12-member board of directors of the society formally meets on the Athens campus twice a year and initiates yearly alumni receptions in many other cities.
Beta Gamma Sigma, the national scholarship society founded in 1913 to encourage and reward scholarship and accomplishment among students of business administration, has an active chapter at Ohio University. Beta Alpha Psi is a national accounting honorary that elects its members on the basis of scholastic achievement in accountancy courses.
Students also are encouraged to participate in student professional organizations, including Alpha Kappa Psi, a professional business fraternity; Alpha Upsilon chapter of Delta Sigma Pi, a professional business fraternity; Phi Alpha Delta, a national prelaw fraternity; Phi Gamma Nu, a professional business fraternity; the Accounting Club; the American Marketing Association; the Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs; the Association of Information Technology Professionals; the Black Students Business Caucus; the Financial Management Society; the International Business Society; the Management Science Society; the Society for Advancement of Management; the Society for Human Resource Management; and the M.B.A. Student Association.
Cooperative education students work for an employer a minimum of two separate times before graduation. Interns typically work one quarter for an employer. Additional information concerning programs and sponsoring organizations is available from the collegeÕs internship coordinator.
Future opportunities being explored include additional summer experience destinations and a winter-break study tour to Mexico or South America. For more information, contact the director, Center for International Business Education and Development, Copeland Hall 514C, telephone 740-593-2021, fax 740-593-1388.
You may receive credit for other overseas programs offered by Ohio University or other U.S. colleges after making arrangements with your advisor and the collegeÕs Office of Student Services.
Language requirements vary, as many courses are taught in English.
Tuition is paid directly to Ohio University at current rates. You pay your own living costs (travel, room, board, books, insurance, personal needs, etc.).
For more information, contact the director, Center for International Business Education and Development, Copeland Hall 514C, telephone 740-593-2021, fax 740-593-1388.
Freshmen will be admitted into the college on a selective basis. Normally, you will need to be in the top 20 percent of your high school class with a strong college preparatory curriculum. You are expected to have above-average ACT or SAT scores, and also have demonstrated leadership potential through participation in extracurricular activities or work experience. Members of groups that are historically underrepresented in business will receive special consideration.
Any student considering transfer to the college is strongly encouraged to contact the collegeÕs Office of Student Services as early as possible. You must be enrolled in the college before your senior year to allow for the collegeÕs 48-hour residency requirement. You must earn at least 50 percent of the business credit hours required for the business degree at Ohio University.
There are two conditions under which you can be considered for transfer into the college. One condition is that you have completed INCO 103, ECON 103, ECON 104, MATH 163A, and ENG 151, 152, or 153, or equivalent courses, and have an accumulative g.p.a. of 3.0 or higher. The second condition is that you have an overall 2.75 g.p.a. and a 3.0 g.p.a. or better in the five courses listed above.
You cannot be guaranteed admission even though you meet the above criteria. The college admissions committee will admit transfer students up to the collegeÕs enrollment ceiling. Students judged to have the highest probability of success will be admitted. Members of groups that are historically underrepresented in business will receive special consideration.
Submit an application for admission to the college to the college Office of Student Services no later than the close of the eighth week of any quarter. The college admissions committee evaluates applications at the close of each quarter. If you are admitted, you will officially transfer to the college at the beginning of the following quarter.
To transfer from another university, submit the standard documents required by the Office of Admissions, as well as the application for the College of Business. You will be notified as early as possible of the admission decision.
To attempt a course is to be enrolled long enough for the course to appear on the transcript or grade report. A letter grade, W, WP, WF, or grade replacement counts as an attempt. Attempts at another institution count toward the limit if you take the course as a transient student after enrollment in the College of Business. Core courses include ACCT 201 and 202; BA 100A, 100B, 370A, and 370B; BUSL 255; ECON 103, 104, and 201; FIN 325A and 325B; MGT 202; MIS 201 and 202; MKT 301A and 301B; OPN 310A and 310B; PRCM 201, 202, 301J, and 302J; and QBA 201.
ECON 201, MIS 201, PRCM 201, and QBA 201 must be taken in an 8Ðcredit-hour cluster during your sophomore year. BUSL 255, MGT 202, MIS 202, and PRCM 202 must be taken in a 13Ðcredit-hour cluster during your sophomore year (see recommended course sequence). Depending on the course or courses involved, students failing one course in a cluster may be required to retake the course in its stand-alone form, and students failing more than one course in a cluster may be required to retake the entire cluster.
BA 370A/B, FIN 325A/B, MKT 301A/B, OPN 310A/B, and PRCM 301J/302J are offered only in two 10Ðcredit-hour clusters at the junior senior level (see recommended course sequence). Students failing a course in a junior-level cluster must obtain permission to be allowed to repeat the course. Students failing multiple courses in a cluster may be required to retake the entire cluster.
If you need to retake a core course that is part of a cluster, go to the Office of Student Services to determine what needs to be done and obtain permission to get into the appropriate classes.
Students who are not enrolled in the College of Business may complete a business minor. Requirements for the minor are listed at the end of the business curricula.
Due to accreditation standards, students outside the college are allowed to com-plete only 44 hours of courses in the business curriculum.
The Ohio Supreme CourtÕs regulations governing the admission to the practice of law in Ohio require that, as a student entering law school, you be able to show possession of an undergraduate degree from an approved college if you wish to take the Ohio Bar Examination. However, the court provides for one possible exceptionÑif you have earned, subsequent to graduation from law school, a bachelorÕs degree through completion of courses and credits other than those received in law school, and have a record of academic achievement that is satisfactory to the Ohio Supreme Court, you may be permitted to apply for admission to the practice of law in Ohio. Law schools in the state of Ohio have supplemented this Supreme Court rule by requiring an undergraduate degree of all entering students, regardless of the state in which they plan to take the bar examination.
A degree in absentia program is available for students who do not plan to take the Ohio Bar Examination and who do not plan to seek admission to an Ohio law school. If you desire to (1) enter, at the end of three years of college work, a school of law located outside Ohio and (2) receive a B.B.A. from Ohio University after completing the first year in law school, you may do so provided you have obtained the written approval of the dean of the College of Business; you have completed a minimum of 144 quarter hours, including the required courses in the B.B.A. curriculum (BUSL 255 excluded), with a g.p.a. of 2.0 on all hours attempted; you have completed a full yearÕs work in an accredited law school with an average equivalent to that prescribed for the bachelorÕs degree at Ohio University; and you are eligible for advancement without condition to the second year.
If there is any possibility that you might wish to take the Ohio Bar Examination, you are urged to obtain an undergraduate degree before entering law school.
Courses included in the 192-hour minimum for the B.B.A. must be chosen so that at least 79 quarter hours are earned in areas of business and economics and at least 96 quarter hours are earned in nonbusiness areas. However, 8 hours of economics principles may be counted in either minimum.
Accounting International Business
Business Economics Management
Business Prelaw Management Information Systems
Finance Marketing
General Business Operations
Human Resource Management Small Business Entrepreneurship
The business prelaw and international business majors require the completion of a second major. You can change your major or add a second major through the Office of Student Services.
All B.B.A. candidates are required to take these courses in their clustered form.Core clusters are offered in two formats: harmonization and full integration (also known as Business 20/20). You must take at least one of the four core clusters in the full integration format. Core cluster sections offered in this format are identified in each quarterÕs Schedule of Classes.
JOUR 133 Precision Language 4
INCO 205 Group Discussion 4
INCO 206 Communication in Interpersonal Relationships 4
INCO 215 Argumentative Analysis 4
INCO 304 Principles and Techniques of Interviewing 4
INCO 306 Interpersonal Conflict Management 4
INCO 342 Comm. and Persuasion 4
INCO 410 Cross-Cultural Commun. 4
Ethical issues
Physical sciences
Political/legal/social issues
Environmental/technical issues
Diversity issues
Behavioral science
Literature
Economics
* A list of approved courses is available from the College of Business Office of Student Services.
Recommended Course Sequence
Business Analysis Cluster
ECON 201 Economic Analysis 2
MIS 201 Intro to Microcomputers 1
PRCM 201 Intro to Prof. Comm. I 1
QBA 201 Intro to Statistics 4
Business Context Cluster
BUSL 255 Business Law 4
MGT 202 Management 4
MIS 202 Business Info. Systems 4
PRCM 202 Intro to Prof. Comm. II 1
Approved electives (nonbusiness requirements) 15
BA 370A Administrative Policy I 2
FIN 325A Managerial Finance I 2
MKT 301A Marketing Principles I 2
OPN 310A Principles of Operations I 2
PRCM 301J Prof. Communication I 2
Introduction to Business Systems II Cluster*
BA 370B Administrative Policy II 2
FIN 325B Managerial Finance II 2
MKT 301B Marketing Principles II 2
OPN 310B Principles of Operations II 2
PRCM 302J Prof. Communication II 2
Major courses and approved electives 28
At least one core cluster must be taken in the fully integrated (Business 20/20) format. See each quarterÕs Schedule of Classes.
* Can also be completed senior year.
Students who perform well in the undergraduate program can earn the M.S. in Accountancy, in addition to the B.B.A., by completing a fifth year of study as a graduate student. Additional information about this program is available from the Graduate Catalog or by contacting the School of Accountancy.
We welcome applications from students who wish to transfer from other campuses and from other majors. If the general education requirements pose a hardship on a transferring student, we will consider a request to substitute strength in a compatible area. Similarly, students who wish to develop strengths in alternative areas are invited to petition the school to substitute that strength for part of the schoolÕs general education requirements. To be eligible for substitution of any courses, you must have above average grades both overall and in any accounting courses attempted.
Major courses required of all accounting majors
ACCT 217 Intro to Taxation 4
ACCT 303, 304, 305 Inter. Accounting 12
ACCT 310 Cost Accounting 4
ACCT 317 Federal Income Taxes 4
ACCT 345 Accounting Systems and Internal Control 4
ACCT 451 Auditing Principles 4
BUSL 357 Law of Commercial Transactions 4
Not all accounting courses are offered every quarter. Check with your advisor or the School of Accountancy to make sure you can take courses when you plan.
In addition to completing the B.B.A. core requirements, you must complete at least 20 additional hours of economics including ECON 304 and 384. ECON 380 and 381 cannot be counted toward this requirement. No economics course can be counted toward both nonbusiness and major requirements.
The business prelaw major recognizes the business and economic emphasis of the practice of law and also provides the breadth of training and philosophical background that is conducive to success in law school.
You must complete the requirements for the business prelaw major in conjunction with the requirements for one of the other business majors, which include accounting, business economics, finance, general business, human resource management, management, management information systems, marketing, and operations. In addition to following the requirements of one of the other majors in the College of Business, you must complete 16 hours at the 300Ð400 level, including BUSL 356 and four additional hours in business law beyond 356, with the approval of your advisor. Another eight hours should be selected from the following: ACCT 217 Introduction to Taxation, ACCT 317 Federal Income Taxes, ECON 430 Public Finance, HRM 425 Labor Relations, POLS 401 and 402 Constitutional Law, POLS 409 Law Enforcement, POLS 304 State Politics, POLS 374 Great Jurists, POLS 413 Administrative Law, FIN 331 Insurance, and FIN 341 Investments. (You may request from your advisor written permission to substitute a course different from those listed above.) With your advisorÕs approval, you should elect additional courses in nonbusiness fields, especially American government, American and English history, English, philosophy, interpersonal communication, and in such business fields as finance.
The law faculty in the College of Business is prepared to assist prelaw students in a number of ways:
Upon graduation, finance majors typically obtain direct entry positions in such areas as the financial banking community, insurance, government services, or in an array of industries that employ financial analysts, decision makers, financial strategists, budgeting officers, and planners.
In addition to the B.B.A. core requirements, you must complete 24 hours of finance courses at the 300 and 400 level, including FIN 327, 341, and 461.
Upon graduation, general business majors enter what may be the broadest area of positions of any major within the College of Business. Recent graduates have entered such fields as sales, banking, government services, personnel, advertising, small business entrepreneurship, production, and insurance.
The human resource management major provides an educational background for those with a career interest in human resource management and/or labor relations in both private and public sector organizations. The major provides basic preparation for entry-level positions in human resource management and the educational background that supports career advancement in this area. It also prepares you for a variety of positions in which knowledge of human resource management is critical to success.
In addition to the B.B.A. requirements, you must complete BUSL 356 Law of the Management Process; HRM 420 Human Resource Management; HRM 425 Labor Relations; MGT 340 Organizational BehaviorÑMicro Perspective; HRM 430 Compensation Management; HRM 440 Human Resource Training, Development, and Research; HRM 450 Recruitment, Selection, and Appraisal; and HRM 460 Human Resource Policy, Planning, and Information Systems.
HRM 460 may not be taken concurrently with HRM 430, 440, or 450. Therefore, it is important to take MGT 201 during your sophomore year and HRM 420 the second quarter of your junior year to take the upper-level courses in the required sequence during your junior and senior years.
HRM 430, 440, and 450, are offered only once a year. If you fail to take one of those courses during the year, you must wait to take it the following year. You must complete HRM 420, 425, 430, 440 and 450 before taking HRM 460.
Several other upper-level HRM courses are offered only once a year and must be taken in sequence. See your advisor for a recommended course schedule.
You also are expected to select electives relevant to your career preparation with the help of your advisor. A sample of recommended electives: ACCT 310 Cost Accounting, AAS 225 History of the Black Worker, ECON 320 Labor Economics, ECON 321 Labor Legislation, ISE 422 Seminar in Occupational Safety and Health, INCO 404 Principles and Techniques of Interviewing, PSY 101 General Psychology, PSY 241 Behavioral Measurement, PSY 261 Industrial Psychology, PSY 275 Educational Psychology, PSY 336 Social Psychology, and SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology.
Your advisor helps you to define a realistic career plan, reviewing your interests, strengths, and weaknesses. Your educational program will be developed as an outgrowth of this career plan. We firmly believe that a close working relationship with your faculty advisor is an important factor in ensuring a sound education.
You may want to join the Ohio University Student Human Resource Management Association, a chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management. Presentations by personnel and industrial relations managers and field trips bring members in contact with human resource managers and complement formal classroom studies.
If the required courses are not offered in a given year, you may substitute any of the following: ECON 341 International Monetary Systems (preferred substitute for FIN 455); ECON 342 International Economic Policy (preferred substitute for BA 385), POLS 455 International Law or POLS 456 International Organization, GEOG 321 Population Geography, and INCO 410 Cross-Cultural Communication. These courses may be used as a substitute for any missing course upon consultation with your advisor.
The management major is designed to provide an educational base for supervisors, executives, and administrators in business, government, and other institutions. In addition to the B.B.A. degree requirements, you must complete 28 hours of management courses numbered above MGT 325. (You may substitute BUSL 356, OPN 340, and/or HRM 420 for an upper-level management course.)
Since managers function in different types of institutions and manage different types of operations, it is strongly recommended that you select a supporting field of study that will provide a strong base for your career development. You will normally select three to five courses in the supporting field in consultation with your advisor. Recommended courses are available in the department chairÕs office for supporting fields in manufacturing management, public administration, retail management, natural resource management, and international management. You may, in consultation with your advisor, tailor your own supporting field to meet your career goals.
As a management major, you will be assigned an advisor who will work with you to help define career goals based on your interests, review your strengths and weaknesses, and recommend relevant elective courses. You are expected to meet with your advisor at least once each quarter.
It is recommended that you complete MGT 100 Managing early in your studies. The 28 hours of coursework required for the major will be completed during your junior and senior years and should be selected from courses numbered MGT 300 or 400. You are permitted to take multiple MGT 491 courses as long as the seminars focus on different areas. Check with the departmental office for other courses that can fulfill major requirements.
The hands-on emphasis of the program exposes you to a number of hardware and software solutions to common business problems. This training is designed to produce graduates who can quickly master computer technology so they will be able to adapt quickly to new technology and apply it to business problems as the software and hardware evolve. Being able to communicate with both management and computer specialists makes MIS graduates ideal candidates in organizations that make use of information systems.
In addition to the B.B.A. core curriculum, you must complete MIS 220, 225, 320, 325, 380, 420, and 495. One additional course must be completed from MIS 360, 430, 455, or 480. Elective courses include MIS 230 and 235.
Upon graduation, marketing majors typically obtain direct- entry positions in such areas as sales, sales management, and retail management with companies that specialize in analysis and description of consumers and their attitudes and behavior.
Marketing majors are required to take PSY 101 and SOC 101. These courses also fulfill the Tier II social science requirement.
In addition to the B.B.A. core requirements, you must complete 24 hours of marketing courses at the 300Ð400 level including MKT 358 , MKT 379, and MKT 463.
Only 4 credit hours of the 490 sequence can count toward the 24 hours of marketing. Additional hours can count toward business electives.
Other institutions in American society are now feeling the same pressures. Health-care institutions face a crisis of cost and a dwindling supply of professionals. Educational institutions look to a future that calls for them to Òdo more with less.Ó Service organizations are expected to perform instantaneously and improve their quality levels at the same time.
Firms that have successfully met the challenges of global competition have learned how to provide world-class quality products and services with minimum cost structure, and how to respond rapidly to changing customer expectations. The operations function has been central to the success of these firms.
The operations major provides you with in-depth understanding of the concepts and techniques that industry uses to effectively meet these challenges. This area of study prepares students to be leaders of both the manufacturing and service organizations that will meet the global competitive challenges of the 21st century. Students with expertise in operations are among the most heavily in demand by business firms recruiting graduates. The operations major includes two unique features: project-based learning and a partnership with the Department of Industrial Technology in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology. Most of the classes required for the major are project based, providing an opportunity for learning in the context of a real project. This format is consistent with the one through which the core curriculum is presented; both emphasize integration and learning in context. In addition to courses in the College of Business, operations majors take courses in industrial technology where they have the opportunity to work in teams with IT majors. This interdisciplinary relationship is valuable in learning how to communicate and work with people from other disciplines and backgrounds.
In addition to the core curriculum required of all business majors, you must complete OPN 340 and 440 and IT 361 (with one hour of IT 491), 363, and 452. One additional course must be selected from OPN 410 and 420 and IT 462. You must take IT 110 to satisfy your Tier II applied science and technology requirement.
The prerequisite for operations majors to enroll in IT classes is permission.
In addition to the B.B.A. core requirements, you must complete ACCT 218 Computer Application Software for the Small Business, FIN 452 Small Business Finance, BA 445 Small Business Administration, HRM 420 Human Resource Management, and four elective courses including at least one marketing course and one accounting course from the following: MGT 340 Organizational BehaviorÑMicro Perspective, BUSL 356 Law of the Management Process, ACCT 217 Intro to Taxation, ACCT 310 Cost Accounting, ACCT 203 Accounting Information Systems, MKT 379 Marketing Research, MKT 444 Consumer Behavior, MKT 462 Product Development, OPN 411 Production/Operations Planning and Control, and OPN 412 Production/Operations Management Problems.
You will be assigned an advisor who will work with you to help define career goals based upon your interests, review strengths and weaknesses, and recommend relevant elective courses. You are expected to meet with your advisor at least once each quarter.
The business minor is open to any student enrolled outside the college of business.
Required courses
ACCT 201 Financial Accounting 4
ACCT 202 Managerial Accounting 4
BUSL 255 Law and Society 4
One of the following five courses:
ECON 381 Intro to Economic Statistics and Econometrics 4
GEOG 271 Intro to Statistics in Geography 5
INCO 301 Empirical Research Applications in Comm. 4
PSY 221 Statistics for the Beh. Sci. 5
QBA 201 Intro to Bus. Statistics 4
Three of the following five courses:
FIN 325 Managerial Finance 4
MGT 202 Management 4
MIS 202 Bus. Information Systems 4
MKT 301 Marketing Principles 4
OPN 310 Principles of Operations 4
Two additional courses from the five listed above or two advanced courses in ACCT, BA, BUSL, FIN, HRM, MGT, MIS, MKT, OPN, or QBA
Total hours: 36
Due to accreditation standards, students outside the college are allowed to complete only 44 hours of courses in the business curriculum.
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