General Business Four-Year Degree Plan

General business list courses

Select a minimum of 24 hours from at least 4 of the following areas:

Business Relationships

• BUS 494 - Internship
• BUS 510 - E-Business and Online Entrepreneurship
• BUS 550/LAW 550 - Negotiation, Mediation, and Arbitration in Business
• ECO 304 - Behavioral Economics
• ECO 310 - Labor Economics
• ENG 321 - Beginning Technical Writing (also count for Writing II requirement)
• ENT 301 - Principles of Entrepreneurship OR ENT 302 - Creativity, Innovation, and Ideation
• ITC 205 - Web Site Design and Development
• LAW 341 - Legal Research and Writing
• MGT 341 - Organizational Behavior and Leadership
• MGT 397 - Business Report Writing
• MKT 351 - Consumer Market Behavior
• MKT 352 - Professional Sales
• MKT 354 - Principles of Advertising
• MKT 355 - Principles of Retailing
• MKT 410 - Services Marketing

Financial and Quantitative Analysis

• ACC 301 - Intermediate Accounting I
• ACC 302 - Intermediate Accounting II
• ACC 311 - Managerial Cost Accounting
• ACC 513 - Managerial Cost Accounting II
• ECO 409 - Applied Econometrics
• ECO 475 - Managerial Economics
• FIN 381 - Financial Planning
• FIN 390 - Intermediate Financial Management
• FIN 585 - Portfolio Management and Alternative Assets
• MKT 360 - Marketing Research
• MKT 368 - Supply Chain and Operations Modeling
• QBA 337 - Applied Business Statistics

International Business Environment

• BUS 392 - International Study Away in Business
• ECO 346 - International Economic Development
• ECO 392 - Education Abroad in Economics
• ECO 456 - Comparative Economic Systems
• ECO 565 - International Economics
• FIN 392 - International Study Away in Finance
• FIN 582 - International Financial Management
• FIN 586 - International Financial Statement Analysis
• MGT 447 - International Management
• MKT 464 - Global Supply Chain Management
• MKT 474 - International Marketing
• RMI 392 - International Education Abroad in Risk Management and Insurance

Markets and Economies

• ECO 365 - Intermediate Microeconomics
• ECO 385 - Intermediate Macroeconomics
• ECO 514 - Game Theory
• FIN 266 - Principles of Real Estate
• FIN 384 - Financial Markets and Investments
• FIN 395 - Domestic Study Away in Finance
• MKT 365 - Introduction to Logistics
• MKT 450 - Supply Chain Management and Sustainability

Project and Technology Management

• ACC 341 - Accounting and Management Information Systems
• ITC 235 - Computer Hardware and Operating Systems
• ITC 260 - Introduction to Java Programming
• ITC 290 - Advanced Microcomputer Applications
• ITC 295 - Database Management Systems Concepts and Design
• ITC 388 - Information Systems Analysis and Design
• ITC 420 - IT Project Management
• TCM 359 - Principles of Project Management

Risk Management and Compliance

• ACC 321 - Tax Accounting I
• ACC 524 - Tax Accounting II
• FIN 589 - Management of Financial Institutions
• FIN 538/RMI 538 - Introduction to Estate Planning
• LAW 531 - Labor Law and Employment Discrimination
• LAW 537 - Environmental Regulation
• MGT 345 - Designing, Managing and Evaluating Human Resource Management Programs
• RMI 310 - Theory of Risk and Measurement
• RMI 312 - Life Insurance
• RMI 313 - Property and Liability Insurance
• RMI 314 - Employee Benefits and Social Insurance
• RMI 415 - Risk Management
• TCM 337 - Quality Control and Measurement

 GPA & credit hour requirements

For Admission to College of Business (COB):  Student must earn a minimum of 2.00 Missouri State GPA and a minimum of 2.50 combined GPA for admission to COB AND to take upper division COB courses.

For Graduation: Students must obtain a 2.50 GPA in all upper-division (300+) in their College of Business business unit coursework taken at Missouri State University.

For Graduation:  Students must complete at least 120 hours.  Of those 120 hours, at least 40 hours must be upper division (300+) level.  Electives may be needed to meet these requirements.