Jan 28, 2026

2017-2018 Argosy University Academic Catalog—Undergraduate Programs | Volume 8, Issue 1

2017-2018 Argosy University Academic Catalog—Undergraduate Programs | Volume 8, Issue 1 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Degree Program

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, Northern Virginia; 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

Notes:

Campuses with an asterisk ( * ) are currently not accepting new students effective July 2, 2018. If you are interested in an Argosy University program of study at another location or online, please call (855) 758-5664.

^† 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

The BS in Business Administration degree program is designed to develop the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:

Program Outcome 1a: Oral Communication
Prepare and deliver oral presentations employing business concepts and data, with consideration of the relationship between the topic, audience and situation, using appropriate technology.

Program Outcome 1b: Written Communication
Prepare written documents employing concepts and data that adhere to conventions of grammar, mechanics, genre and rhetoric, with consideration of the relationship between the topic, audience and situation.

Program Outcome 2: Team Engagement
Describe and employ the interpersonal and group communication skills that enable businesses to attain their goals.

Program Outcome 3: Information Literacy
Gather, evaluate, and ethically use information from a variety of relevant technological and library resources to make business decisions and take action.

Program Outcome 4a: Ethical Awareness
Describe and employ the ethical framework that managers and employees are expected to operate under while interacting in a business situation.

Program Outcome 4b: Diversity
Identify the benefits and challenges of social, cultural and economic diversity within and across organizations, as well as the opportunities that diversity represents for business strategy.

Program Outcome 5: Foundational Knowledge
Explain and synthesize the multiple concepts of business administration, including the roles and responsibilities of the functional areas of business leaders and teams.

Program Outcome 6a: Analysis and Application
Develop a conclusion, opinion or course of action based on exploration and analysis of information, issues, ideas and events to solve business problems.

Program Outcome 6b: Numerical Literacy
Analyze and interpret quantitative data in order to solve problems and make informed business decisions.

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

Notes

¹ General education curriculum requirements at Argosy University, Sarasota and Argosy University, Tampa are 45 credit hours. To satisfy these requirements, students choose an additional general education elective. Open electives requirements are 10 courses or 30 credit hours. The total credit hours required to complete the program remains the same at 120 credit hours.

²Open electives requirements are 30 credit hours at Argosy University, Sarasota and Argosy University, Tampa.

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.

General Education Curriculum Requirements (42 Credit Hours)

Students enrolled in the BS in Business Administration degree program are required to successfully complete fourteen general education courses (42 credit hours)³ distributed as follows:

6 credit hours in academic and interpersonal skills⁴
6 credit hours in communications, consisting of ENG101 - Composition I and ENG210 - Writing in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
6 credit hours in humanities⁵
6 credit hours in social sciences consisting of ECO201 - Macroeconomics and ECO202 - Microeconomics ⁶
6 credit hours in natural sciences
6 credit hours in mathematics, including MAT210 - Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
6 credit hours in elective courses (which may be in any distribution area)⁷

Notes

³The General Education Curriculum requirements at Argosy University, Sarasota and Argosy University, Tampa are 45 credit hours.

⁴To satisfy the Academic and Interpersonal Skills requirements, students are required to take ASP100 Skills for Success and COM180 Interpersonal Effectiveness during the first semester of attendance. The requirement to take ASP100 Skills for Success will be waived for students who are admitted with a CGPA of 2.0 and who have either 1) completed an associate’s degree from a regionally accredited institution or 2) successfully completed at least 60 credit hours of college level coursework. Transfer credit is not accepted for either course. Exceptions to this policy may occur in the case of established course equivalencies with institutions that have a transfer or articulation agreement with Argosy University. Academic and interpersonal Skills requirements are 3 credit hours at Argosy University, Twin Cities and are fulfilled by successful completion of COM180 Interpersonal Effectiveness. Students at Argosy University, Twin Cities who are required to take ASP100 Skills for Success apply this course towards the open electives requirements. Arkansas residents who are enrolled in bachelor’s degree programs offered through Argosy University Online Programs are not required to take ASP100 Skills for Success and COM180 Interpersonal Effectiveness.

⁵Students at Argosy University, Twin Cities are required to take 9 credit hours within the humanities category.

⁶ Students at Argosy University, Twin Cities are required to take 9 credit hours within the social sciences category.

⁷Students at Argosy University, Sarasota and Argosy University, Tampa are required to take 9 credit hours of general education elective courses. Students at Argosy University, Twin Cities are required to take 3 credit hours general education elective courses. Students who receive a waiver for ASP100 Skills for Success take an additional 3 credit hours of general education elective courses as follows. Students at all campuses except Argosy University, Sarasota, Argosy University, Tampa, and Argosy University, Twin Cities take 9 credit hours of general education elective courses. Students at Argosy University, Sarasota and Argosy University, Tampa take 12 credit hours of general education elective courses. Students at Argosy University, Twin Cities apply ASP100 Skills for Success towards the open elective requirements of their selected degree program, and therefore their general education elective requirements are not impacted by the course waiver.

Business Core Requirements (33 Credit Hours)

Students enrolled in the BS in Business Administration degree program are required to successfully complete eleven business core courses (33 credit hours).

The primary goal of the business core is to provide the breadth of general management competencies, skills, and knowledge required of managers and supervisors regardless of the specific requirements of their management positions.

Business Core Requirements — Students Are Required to Take the Following

Business Core Requirements— 33 Credit Hours

Business Electives Requirements (12 Credit Hours)

Students enrolled in the BS in Business Administration degree program are required to successfully complete four business elective courses (12 credit hours). Students may select one of the optional concentrations that will be applied to this requirement.

Business Electives Requirements—Students Choose Four of the Following

Business Electives Requirements—12 Credit Hours

Optional Concentration Requirements (12 Credit Hours)

Students enrolled in the BS in Business Administration degree program may select a concentration that will be applied towards the fulfillment of the business electives requirements . The primary goal of the business concentration is to help students gain the knowledge, skills, and competencies in a specific area of study.

Students may choose to complete one of the following concentrations:

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

Accounting Concentration Requirements

The primary goal of the Accounting concentration is to help students acquire the knowledge, skills, and competencies they need to seek entry level management or leadership positions in accounting.

Accounting Concentration Requirements — Students Are Required to Take the Following

Accounting Concentration Requirements — 12 Credit Hours

Finance Concentration Requirements

The primary goal of the Finance concentration is to help students acquire the knowledge, skills, and competencies they need to seek entry-level management or leadership positions in finance.

Finance Concentration Requirements — Students Are Required to Take the Following

Finance Concentration Requirements — 12 Credit Hours

Healthcare Management Concentration Requirements

The primary goal of the Healthcare Management concentration is to help students acquire the knowledge, skills, and competencies they need to seek entry-level management or leadership positions in health care administration.

Healthcare Management Concentration Requirements — Students Are Required to Take the Following

Healthcare Management Concentration Requirements — 12 Credit Hours

Human Resource Management Concentration Requirements

The primary goal of the Human Resources concentration is to help students acquire the knowledge, skills, and competencies they need to seek entry-level management or leadership positions in human resources.

Human Resource Management Concentration Requirements — Students Are Required to Take the Following

Human Resource Management Concentration Requirements — 12 Credit Hours

International Business Concentration Requirements

The primary goal of the International Business concentration is to help students acquire the knowledge, skills, and competencies they need to seek entry-level management or leadership positions in international business.

International Business Concentration Requirements — Students Are Required to Take the Following

International Business Concentration Requirements — 12 Credit Hours

Marketing Concentration Requirements

The primary goal of the Marketing concentration is to help students acquire the knowledge, skills, and competencies they need to seek entry-level management or leadership positions in marketing.

Marketing Concentration Requirements — Students Are Required to Take the Following

Marketing Concentration Requirements — 12 Credit Hours

Organizational Management Concentration Requirements

The primary goal of the Organizational Management concentration is to help students acquire the knowledge, skills, and competencies they need to seek entry-level management or leadership positions in any organization in the corporate sector.

Organizational Management Concentration Requirements — Students Are Required to Take the Following

Organizational Management Concentration Requirements — 12 Credit Hours

Open Electives Requirements (33 credit hours)

Students enrolled in the BS in Business Administration degree program are required to complete eleven open elective courses (33 credit hours). Students may take any undergraduate courses listed under Section Twelve, Undergraduate Course Listings .

Students may be eligible to complete select graduate courses to fulfill some of their undergraduate electives. To qualify to take graduate courses, the student must apply and be accepted in the Master’s Accelerated Plan (MAP); application criteria include a CGPA of at least 3.0, successful completion of a minimum of 60 credit hours toward the bachelor’s degree, and approval from the College Dean. If approved, students may take up to 15 graduate credit hours in an area of interest (see list below). Upon completion of the bachelor’s degree, the student may apply to the master’s program associated with the area of interest listed below. If accepted, the elective courses completed with a grade of B- or better as an undergraduate student may transfer into the graduate degree.

Master of Business Administration (up to 15 credit hours may apply)
Master of Science in Human Resource Management (up to 15 credit hours may apply)
Master of Science in Management (up to 15 credit hours may apply)
Master of Science in Organizational Leadership (up to 15 credit hours may apply)

Note

Open electives requirements at Argosy University, Sarasota and Argosy University, Tampa are ten courses or 30 credit hours.

Note

Students at Argosy University, Twin Cities apply ASP100 - Skills for Success towards the open electives requirements. Students who receive a waiver for ASP100 Skills for Success may select a different course to apply towards the open electives requirements.

Gainful Employment Information

The following links provide program duration, tuition, fees and other costs, median debt, salary data, alumni success, and other important information for the BS in Business Administration degree program offered at Argosy University:

Campus	Gainful Employment Information
Argosy University, Atlanta	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/569
Argosy University, Chicago	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/586
Argosy University, Dallas	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/1841
Argosy University, Denver	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/611
Argosy University, Hawai’i	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/636
Argosy University, Inland Empire	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/643
Argosy University, Los Angeles	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/743
Argosy University, Nashville	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/1688
Argosy University, Orange County	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/670
Argosy University, Phoenix	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/701
Argosy University, Salt Lake City	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/1854
Argosy University, San Diego	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/1384
Argosy University, San Francisco Bay Area	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/728
Argosy University, Sarasota	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/776
Argosy University, Schaumburg	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/807
Argosy University, Seattle	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/820
Argosy University, Tampa	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/846
Argosy University, Twin Cities	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/875
Argosy University, Northern Virginia	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/879
Argosy University Online Programs	ge.argosy.edu/programoffering/5401