BS in Business Administration
Fairfax, USA
DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
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Introduction
The Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) program prepares qualified students for leadership positions in the global marketplace. Future leaders will need to balance the goals of economic success with the constraints of greater social and environmental responsibility. Students are instructed by distinguished faculty with content area expertise and practical experience, learning to integrate changing human and information resources with continually developing technology, while nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit that has always been one of the key characteristics of successful businesses.
The future of Business Administration
The core of this program focuses on the development of skills that requires a competent and capable individual in the workforce. The goal is to help students to develop analytical and leadership skills and knowledge of organizations to make positive social, financial, and economic impacts. In this curriculum, students develop an understanding of how business and public organizations function; how they interact with individuals, and changes that occur during these interactions. Students take courses from five domain areas including Business Development and Analysis (BD&A), Leadership Development (LD), Organizations and Contexts (OC), Human Development (HD), and Organizational Psychology (OP).
Areas of Focus
The School of Business offers a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree with the following four specializations:
- Business Analytics
Focuses on the use of business analytics to develop models using varied and complex data sets and, implementing model results to resolve complicated business problems. - Business Optimization
Focuses on the development and implementation of plans for organizations to redefine and strategize for lean operations as well as maximize asset utilization, quality control, cost minimization, and institutional efficiencies. - Organizational Development and Human Resources
Focuses on the principles of management, organizational behavior, operations management, strategy and policy, international management, and entrepreneurship to create and implement innovative organizational development strategies to help organizations transform and sustain their long-term development. - Social Innovation and Sustainable Businesses
Focuses on the development of sustainable models for organizations to leverage ethical, organizational, and communal needs and, implementing innovative strategies for helping organizations thrive in uncertain environments.
Career Opportunities
- Small Business Owner
- Management Consultant/Analyst
- Business Development Officer
- Business Manager
- Business Analyst
- Data Analyst
- Sustainable Development Officer
- Risk Analyst
- Market Analyst
- Human Resource Manager
- Financial Officer
- Marketing Coordinators
- Operations Manager
Curriculum
Business Administration Micro-Credentials
What are micro-credentials?
They are mini-qualifications that demonstrate skills, knowledge, and/or experience in a given subject area or capability.
- Advanced Marketing & Sales Strategy (AM&SS)
- Business Analytics Capstone (BAC)
- Business Analytics in Practice (BAP)
- Business Development (BD)
- Business Leadership (BL)
- Change and Business Leadership (C&BL)
- Data Visualization with Tableau (DVT)
- Ethical Leadership (EL)
- Foundations of Business Analytics (FBA)
- Foundations: Marketing and Sales (M&S)
- Globalization, Economic Growth, and Stability (GE&S)
- Lean Six Sigma (LSS)
- Market Positioning & Sales (MP)
- Sustainable Business Change Agent (SBCA)
- Value Chain Management (VCM)
Curriculum
General Education Courses
Arts and Humanities Division (3 Courses -9 Credit Hours)
- HUMN 101 Introduction to the Arts and Humanities
- HUMN 105* Foundations of Learning and Being
- HUMN 125* Worldviews and Models of Action
- PHIL 101 Philosophy
- RLGN 110 Comparative Religion
Communications Division (2 Courses – 6 Credit Hours)
- COMM 110 Oral Communication Skills
- ENGL 120 Academic Writing and Research
Mathematical Sciences Division (1 Course – 3 Credit Hours)
- MATH 160 Pre-Calculus
- MATH 165 Calculus I
Natural Sciences Division (2 Courses – 6 Credit Hours)
- BIOL 101 General Biology
- CHEM 101 General Chemistry
- GEOL 101 Introduction to Geology
- PHYS 101 College Physics
Social Sciences and Cross-Cultural Studies Division (3 Courses – 9 Credit Hours)
- GOVT 120 Comparative Government
- GOVT 130 American Society and Politics
- GEOG 101 World Geography
- HIST 101 World History
- INCS 300* The Context of Global Citizenship
- INCS 325* Being a Global Citizen
- SOCI 101 Sociology
- PSYC 101 Psychology
Transformative Learning and Leadership in Practice Division (3 Courses – 9 Credits)
- TLLP 150 Practices of Learning and Being
- TLLP 200 Designing a Life of Self-Fulfillment
- TLLP 400 Designing a Life of Possibilities – Concepts, Tools, and Processes of Thinking
*Indicates a required course. This course continues the “Learning to Learn, Learning to Be” approach taken in our Transformative Learning and Leadership in Practice (TLLP) curriculum.
Required Courses
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Specialization Courses
Business Analytics Specialization: (6 Courses – 18 Credit Hours)
Business analytics leverages data, statistics, and technology to analyze complex business problems to provide descriptive and predictive solutions that complement the business decision-making process.
- BUSS 338* Business Data Visualization
- BUSS 351 Business Development
- BUSS 362 Business Consulting
- BUSS 364 Negotiation Essentials
- BUSS 400* Business Decisions and Modeling
- BUSS 440* Business Intelligence and Predictive Analysis
- BUSS 445/540^ Human Resource Analytics
- BUSS 448/546^ Marketing Analytics
- BUSS 478/578^ Business Risk Analysis and Optimization
- BUSS 479* Data Prediction and Business Optimization
- BUSS 487/587^ Contemporary Issues in Applying Business Analytics
- BUSS 488Internship in Business Analytics
Business Optimization Specialization: (6 Courses – 18 Credit Hours)
Project management concerns the use of strategies and practices that streamline operations. This requires further development of critical thinking skills and knowledge of existing and emerging practices in order to help individuals to provide creativity and innovation to their organizations.
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Organizational Development and Human Resources Specialization: (6 Courses – 18 Credit Hours)
This specialization develops skillful students in effective utilization of human resource and organization resources; builds the competency of managers in understanding human and organizational behaviors in identifying, acquiring, developing, and rewarding high-performing and productive employees.
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Social Innovation and Sustainable Businesses Specialization: (6 Courses – 18 Credit Hours)
Social Innovation and Sustainable Business concentration is interdisciplinary in nature which is integrating social and environmental sciences and innovation to achieve a sustainable business practice of long-term profitability, healthy environment, and developed human/community.
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*Indicates required course.
^Can be taken for graduate course credit.
Note: Students who wish to take a course that is offered by another specialization may petition to do so to their advisor by providing justification for the relevance of the addition as part of their professional trajectory, their intended consulting project, and/or personal interest. A maximum of 2 courses from other areas can be applied to a specialization.