To earn the undergraduate degree in business administration, students must complete a minimum of 120 acceptable credit hours from the following categories:
- Business core: 30 credit hours
- Business area of emphasis: 18 credit hours
- Business electives: 16 credit hours
- Nonbusiness requirements: 33 credit hours
- Nonbusiness electives: 23 credit hours
Students specialize in one of five emphases:
- Accounting: Understand a breadth of topics across the accounting industry, from financial and managerial accounting to accounting systems and auditing.
- Finance: Learn how to evaluate financial problems and formulate credible financial decisions and policies.
- Management and Entrepreneurship: Gain skills to manage teams, projects and organizations that are globally competitive.
- Marketing: Learn how to influence business practices with cutting-edge marketing strategies.
- Real Estate: Explore the link between real estate and capital markets while analyzing operative real estate opportunities.
Students also have the option of integrating computer science into their business administration degree program.
And an additional degree option for Leeds undergraduate students pursuing an emphasis in accounting, finance or both:
- Bachelor’s-accelerated master’s: A combined bachelor's (BS) and master's (MS) degree is offered to undergraduate students interested in a master’s degree in accounting or taxation. The BAM program allows students to take advanced courses at an accelerated pace, engage in an independent research project and obtain both degrees in five years. The program is available to undergraduate students pursuing accounting, finance or both as their emphasis.