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Business Administration (B.S.) Entrepreneurship Concentration

Program Overview

The Business Administration Major offers students the opportunity to tailor their curriculum across business disciplines emphasizing career themes such as: l) general management, 2) development of quantitative analysis skills in a business context, and 3) preparation for management of small businesses and 4) stewardship of human resources. Students not choosing a concentration can customize their degree program by selecting upper-level business courses that meet their career goals.

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates from Messiah’s Business Administration with Entrepreneurship concentration program can:

  1. Apply principles related to project management, marketing, and financing to prepare a complete and fundable business plan. (ULO 3)
  2. Recall, recognize, and interpret foundational content related to ACBSP accreditation Common Professional Component—disciplinary areas in which all business majors need to be proficient regardless of their major including Marketing, Finance, Accounting, Management, Law, Economics, Ethics, Information Systems, Global, Quantitative and Integrative (ULO 2)
  3. Apply business concepts, strategies and tactics (ULO 2)
  4. Conduct methodological secondary research into business issues. (ULO 3)
  5. Articulate how the Christian faith informs one’s work life, career, and daily business practices (ULO 4, ULO 5, ULO 6)

Major Requirements

Complete the following for your major:

ACCT 141Financial Accounting

3
ACCT 242Managerial Accounting

3
BUSA 102Opportunities in Business

1
BUSA 120Principles of Management

3
BUSA 381Business Law

3
BUSA 501Business Strategy and Execution

3
CIS 190Strategic Use of Information Technology

3
ECON 120Principles of Macroeconomics

3
ECON 220Principles of Microeconomics

3
FINA 305Financial Management

3
MRKT 130Marketing Principles

3
STAT 281Applied Statistics for Management

3

Three to four credits from the following:

MATH 107Applied Mathematics for Management

3
MATH 108Intuitive Calculus with Applications

3
MATH 111Calculus I

4

Entrepreneurship Concentration (21 credits)

BUSA 380Small Business Development

3
BUSA 385Entrepreneurship

3
MRKT 339Market Research

3
BUSA 310Business as a Ministry

3

Three credits from the following:

BUSA 360Operations Management

3
BUSA 405Supply Chain Management

3
BUSA 505Business Analytics

3
ECON 302Intermediate Microeconomics

3

Three credits from the following:

LEAD 312/HRM 312Leading Organizational Change

3
MRKT 333Consumer Behavior

3
MRKT 337Integrated Marketing Communications

3
MRKT 357Personal Selling

3

Three credits from the following:

300- or 400-level ACCT, BUSA, ECON, FINA, HRM, IBI, LEAD, or MRKT courses

General Education Requirements

Experiential Learning requirement   0
General Education requirements   Credits
First Year Seminar IDFY 101/102H  3
Written Communication ENGL 110/110H 3
Oral Communication COMM 105 3
Mathematical and Scientific Ways of Knowing Mathematics (MATH 107, MATH 108, MATH 111) met/major
Science with Lab  3 or 4 
Social Scientific Ways of Knowing
 Social Science (ECON 120) met/major
Cultural/Humanistic Ways of Knowing 24GE History 3
Literary & Aesthetic Ways of Knowing
 Literature or Arts 3
Cultural/Humanistic Ways of Knowing
 Philosophy or Religion 3
Cultural/Humanistic Ways of Knowing 1st and 2nd Level Language 6
Intercultural Perspectives Intercultural Global or International Cross-cultural or 3rd Level Language 3
Bible
 24GE Bible 3
Christian Beliefs
 24GE Christian Beliefs 3
Holistic Wellness
 WELL 1xx 1
Ethics and the Common Good
 24GE Ethics and the Common Good 3
Intercultural Perspectives
 Intercultural U.S. or Domestic Cross-cultural 3
Common Learning
 Experiential Learning  
General Education requirements   43-44
Major requirements (inclusive of concentration)   58-59
Free Electives    20-22
Total credits   123