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

• Have earned a combined cumulative (transfer and UW-W) grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.80. (What if I do not meet the 2.80 requirement?)
• Submitted the Application for Upper Division Courses

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.