BS in Business Administration, General Management Major with Entrepreneurship and Small Business Track

Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management Track

Students in this track graduate with a concentration in "Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management" listed on their transcript. Required courses in this track may not be available at night.

Non-business Core Requirements (17 credits):

Spreadsheet proficiency: demonstrated by passing ABU 190 - Spreadsheets and Problem Solving (3 general elective credits) with a grade of C or higher, or by successfully passing a School of Business spreadsheet proficiency exam.
*Proficiency should be demonstrated before enrolling in 300-level School of Business courses, and must be demonstrated to graduate.

ECO 101 - Introduction to Macroeconomics (3 credits)
ECO 102 - Introduction to Microeconomics (3 credits)
MAT 108 - College Algebra with C- or higher grade (4 credits). Substitutes include a C- or higher grade in MAT 140D or approved higher level math course, passing a CLEP exam, or passing the MAT 108 equivalency exam offered by Academic Assessment.
MAT 210 - Business Statistics with C-or higher grade (4 credits) or C- or higher grade in prior credit for MAT 120D or other approved statistics course.
THE 170 - Public Speaking (3 credits) or other approved course

Business Core Requirements (36 credits):

A minimum of 50% of business core courses must be taken at USM, and the student's grade point average for the business core must be 2.33 or higher.

ACC 110 - Financial Acct. Information for Decision Making
ACC 211 - Managerial Acct. Information for Decision Making
BUS 260 - Marketing
BUS 275 - Applied Business Analysis
BUS 280 - Legal Environment of Business
BUS 340 - Managing Organizational Behavior
BUS 345 - Information Technology/Management Information Systems
BUS 370 - Management Science
BUS 375 - Production/Operations Management
FIN 320 - Basic Financial Management
BUS 450 - Business Policy and Strategy

Select one of the following international courses:
BUS 335 - International Business
BUS 361 - International Marketing
BUS 382 - International Business Law
FIN 330 - International Financial Management

Major Requirements (15 or more credits) At least 50% of credit hours applied to the major must be taken at USM. No more than 3 credits of internship can count toward ths major.

Major Requirements:

BUS 362 – Marketing Opportunity Analysis
BUS 385 – Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation 
BUS 485 -Managing the Growing Entrepreneurial Venture

Select 6 credits of 300-level or higher ACC, BUS, or FIN courses

General Electives:

23 credits for accounting majors, 27 credits for other majors

BUS 101: Getting Down to Business (3 credits) Optional first-year seminar, credits counted as general electives; strongly recommended for recent high school graduates with fewer than 24 credits.