• Offering Campuses
• Program Overview
• Program Learning Outcomes
• Admission Requirements
• Graduation Requirements
• Program Requirements
• Gainful Employment Information  

Offering Campuses

Argosy University, Atlanta; Argosy University, Chicago; Argosy University, Dallas; Argosy University, Denver; Argosy University, Hawai’i; Argosy University, Inland Empire; Argosy University, Los Angeles; Argosy University, Nashville; Argosy University, Orange County; Argosy University, Phoenix; Argosy University, San Diego; Argosy University, San Francisco Bay Area; Argosy University, Salt Lake City; Argosy University, Sarasota; Argosy University, Schaumburg; Argosy University, *Seattle; Argosy University, Tampa; Argosy University, Twin Cities; Argosy University, Northern Virginia

^{*Note: Argosy University, Seattle is no longer accepting new students in this program.}

Program Overview

The Bachelor of Science (BS) in Business Administration degree program is designed to help students focus their academic and professional development consistent with their career objectives and experiences. It is open to both students who have already earned college credit at a community college, junior college, or other university, and working professionals with no college experience.

The program is designed to prepare graduates with competencies, skills and knowledge to seek entry-level employment while simultaneously providing the basis for graduate education in business.

Students enrolled in the BS in Business Administration degree program can choose one of seven concentration areas. The primary goal of each concentration is to help students acquire the competencies, skills, and knowledge needed to seek entry-level positions in a related function or industry. Optional concentrations are as follows:

• Accounting
• Finance
• Healthcare Management
• Human Resource Management
• International Business
• Marketing
• Organizational Management

Program Learning Outcomes

Program Outcome One: Communication
Competency 1.1
Use both written and verbal skills to communicate business concepts to appropriate audiences.
Competency 1.2
Analyze through observation, active listening, and probing questions as to how others are responding to your communication style.
Competency 1.3
Develop a responsiveness of how you are absorbing the content and tone of information provided to you, in various forms, and recognize when personal biases or assumptions have been applied.
Competency 1.4
Demonstrate awareness of body language and other non-verbal cues which lead to the “true message,” both implied and inferred.

Program Outcome Two: Team
Competency 2.1
Define the attributes of effective team member and leader behaviors in reaching specific business goals.
Competency 2.2
Identify situations and conditions under which team or individual projects are most appropriate, and communicate the information to relevant parties.
Competency 2.3
Select appropriate strategies for motivating teams to reach goals under different constraints and conditions.

Program Outcome Three: Cognitive
Competency 3.1
Basic Problem Solving – Given a business opportunity or problem, select and defend a course of action.
Competency 3.2
Advanced Problem Solving – Identify business situations and problems with several possible meanings or interpretations. After reviewing this business situation generate options, solutions and recommend an alternative approach.
Competency 3.3
Information Literacy – Identify appropriate sources and access both qualitative and quantitative information necessary to make informed business decisions.

Program Outcome Four: Analysis and Application
Competency 4.1
Integration — Identify the tensions and synergies between basic business disciplines.
Competency 4.2
Analysis – Determine the critical information necessary to make an informed business decision under a variety of conditions.
Competency 4.3
Generate options and recommendations for action that support the mission of the organization at the same time meeting the needs of critical stakeholders under conditions where there is imperfect and ambiguous information.

Program Outcome Five: Ethics/Diversity
Competency 5.1
Identify the ethical framework which managers and employees operate under in both work and life. Explain the relationship between social responsibility, and ethics within the organization when unstable situations arise.
Competency 5.2
Articulate a code of professional ethics and/or behavior for yourself and your organization.
Competency 5.3
Understand how diversity of culture, languages, ethnicities, races, and genders effect an organization. Understand how to communicate professionally the underlying ethics and values which govern your approach in life and the business world.

Admission Requirements

• Applicants must provide proof of high school graduation or GED documented by one of the following:
  • Official or unofficial high school transcript (except in Georgia and Tennessee)
  • High School diploma (except in Georgia and Tennessee)
  • State issued high school equivalency (home school) (except California)
  • Official General Educational Development (GED) document
  • Official Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC) document
  • Official High School Equivalency Test (HiSET) document
  • Official college transcript from a regionally accredited institution or nationally accredited institution approved by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences that shows proof of high school graduation or an appropriately certified foreign institution that shows proof of high school graduation

-OR-

• Official college transcript from a completed associate’s degree from a regionally accredited institution or nationally accredited institution approved by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
• A minimum score on an Argosy University pre-approved English language proficiency test is required for all applicants whose native language is not English or who have not graduated from an institution at which English is the language of instruction as specified in Section Five, Admission Policies, English Language Proficiency Policy .

Other Admission Requirements

All applications for admission must be submitted to the Admissions Department. An admissions representative will help interested applicants complete the following required documentation:

• Completed Application for Admission Form

Graduation Requirements

• Completion of a minimum of 120 credit hours which includes
  • 42 credit hours general education curriculum requirements1
  • 33 credit hours business core course requirements
  • 12 credit hours business electives or concentration requirements
  • 33 credit hours open electives requirements²
• Completion of a minimum of 42 credit hours of upper division
• An Argosy University GPA of 2.0 or higher
  • Satisfactory completion of general education curriculum requirements with a grade of “D-” or better
  • Satisfactory completion of business core courses with a grade of “C-” or better
  • Satisfactory completion of business electives or concentration courses with a grade of “C-” or better
  • Satisfactory completion of open electives requirements with a grade of “D-” or better
• A minimum of 30 credit hours completed at Argosy University
• A completed Petition to Graduate submitted to campus administration

Program Requirements

Students enrolled in the BS in Business Administration degree program are required to complete a minimum of 120 credit hours distributed as follows: general education curriculum requirements, 42 credit hours; business core course requirements, 33 credit hours; business electives or concentration requirements, 12 credit hours; and open electives requirements, 33 credit hours.