Undergraduate Advising

Declaring a Business Major

All students must meet a minimum GPA standard to declare a business major.  The minimum combined GPA standards are as follows:

  • less than 24 credits=2.0 combined GPA
  • 24-72 credits=2.5 combined GPA
  • 73+ credits=2.8 GPA

Eligibility for Registration of Lower and Upper Division Business Courses

To progress towards completion of a business degree students must have a minimum combined GPA of a 2.5 to be eligible to register for all lower division courses. 

To be eligible for registration of all upper division courses students must have a minimum combined GPA of a 2.8, 54 or more projected credits, and have finished or be registering for the last courses in the following areas:

Communication Skills

Unique

Lower Division

ENGLISH 101 English

MATH 143 Finite

ACCOUNT 244 Intro Financial Actg.

ENGLISH 102 English

ECON 201 Micro

ACCOUNT 249/261

COMM 110 Speech

ECON 202 Macro

ECON 245 Business Statistics

 

 

*ITBE 280 Intro Info Systems

NOTE: Students who do not meet the 2.8 gpa requirement may be admitted based on an "8 Point" formula. This formula considers the cumulative combined gpa and the gpa earned in the above ten courses. 

 

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