BSBA General Business at West Virginia University

Programme overview

The General Business program is for students who may desire an “individualized” (i.e. less prescriptive) business major. For instance, a student interested in working for a market research firm may want to combine courses from both management information systems (MIS) and marketing (MKTG).

Faculty: John Chambers College of Business and Economics | Duration: 120 credit hours (minimum) | Study mode: full-time | Location: Morgantown, WV, United States

What you will study

Required coursework includes Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship, Legal Environment of Business, Information Systems and Technology, Principles of Finance, Principles of Marketing, Supply Chain Management, Principles of Management. Programme/major requirements total 30 credit hours.

Career pathways

Students interested in pursuing the General Business major should contact an academic advisor in the Office of Undergraduate Programs and Advising, 2nd Floor, Reynolds Hall to prepare a matriculation plan that satisfies the requirements for the degree and academic major and that compliments their professional career interests.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Programme-level admission/progression (WVU catalogue): For specific information regarding the admissions requirements for First Time Freshmen to the John Chambers College of Business and Economics, please visit Chambers Admissions . Students who are direct admitted to the major as first-time freshmen must possess an overall university GPA of at least 2.0 and have completed the course prerequisites listed in the table below with minimum grade of C-, unless otherwise noted, to be eligible to enroll in upper-division course work. Students who are not direct admitted to the major (i.e. Business) will declare the major at the beginning of the semester in which they satisfy the course prerequisites listed below with a minimum of C- unless otherwise noted. Applicants also must possess an overall GPA of at least 2.0 to be considered for admission to the major. Course List Code | Title | Hours | ACCT 201 | Principles of Accounting 1 | 3 | ECON 201 & ECON 202 | Principles of Microeconomics and Principles of Macroeconomics | 6 | ECON 225 | Elementary Business and Economics Statistics | 3 | or STAT 211 | Elementary Statistical Inference | Choose one of the following: | 3-6 | ENGL 101 & ENGL 102 | Introduction to Composition and Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetoric, and Research | | ENGL 103 | Accelerated Academic Writing | | MATH 124 | Algebra with Applications | 3 | Total Hours | 18-21 | Major Code: 2160

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Entry terms: Fall, Spring and Summer (international undergraduate deadlines are published for all three terms). WVU has rolling admissions and admits students year-round.

First-time freshman application deadlines: Fall, August 1; Spring, December 1. Rolling admissions. Apply with the WVU application or the Common Application; the application fee is $20 for West Virginia residents, $65 for out-of-state students and $75 for international students. SAT/ACT scores are optional for an admissions decision, though a few majors and scholarships require them; no essays or recommendations are required.

Transfer application deadlines: Fall, August 1; Spring, December 1. The nonrefundable application fee is $65 for domestic and $75 for international students; applicants need at least 24 transferable credit hours and a minimum 2.0 GPA.

International undergraduate applicants apply by June 1 for Fall (all documents by July 1), October 1 for Spring (documents by November 1) and February 15 for Summer (documents by April 1); the nonrefundable application fee is $75.

Apply through the official page: https://admissions.wvu.edu/undergraduate/

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