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Business Administration
Bachelor of Science

The Bachelor of Business Administration program provides instruction and application of skills and knowledge that represent the ways in which businesses operate in a competitive and global business environment. Graduates will be equipped with skills that can suit many different positions, industries, and organizations. Coursework is designed to integrate information and theories from management and leadership, accounting, economics, finance, marketing, business law, human resources, ethics, and information systems to develop broadly educated graduates who fully understand how businesses operate and can apply tools and techniques to a wide variety of domestic and international business situations.

Upon successful completion of this program, graduates will be able to:

  1. Employ critical thinking skills to evaluate the practical implications of organizational policies, decisions and strategies

  2. Organize ideas and communicate effectively

  3. Identify, research, analyze and solve complex business problems using appropriate technological and analytical tools

  4. Identify and communicate the variety of risks and opportunities of doing business in a global environment

CAREER OUTLOOK
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (SOC CODE: 11-3012.00)

Candidates with a BS-BA degree may be eligible for supervisory and managerial positions in a variety of organizations. They may work in occupations where they will establish plans and policies, direct business activities, and oversee people, products, and services that would help an organization to run efficiently.

This degree prepares students for a broad spectrum of business positions and opportunities.

WHAT TYPE OF WORK DO BUSINESS ADMINISTRATORS DO?

Business Administrators are employed in supervisory and management positions within organizations. They employ critical thinking skills to evaluate practical implications of organizational policies, decisions, and strategies. They organize ideas and communicate effectively. In addition, they may prepare operational budgets, hire personnel, direct administrative or support services.

Business Administrators identify, research, analyze, and solve complex business problems using appropriate technological and analytical tools, and identify and communicate the variety of risks and opportunities of doing business in a global environment.

CALIFORNIA EMPLOYMENT TRENDS FOR BUSINESS ADMINISTRATORS

California employment of Business Administrators was 48,100 employees in 2020. The need is projected to grow 16 percent from 2020 to 2030. It’s projected there will be 4,860 openings each year from 2020 until 2030.

Source: O*Net California Employment Trends for Business Administrators (Service Managers)

MEDIAN PAY FOR BUSINESS ADMINISTRATORS

Region Median Hourly Median Annually
California $50.79 $105,650
Los Angeles and Orange Counties $51.56 $107,250
Riverside and San Bernardino Counties $48.63 $101,140
San Diego County $45.10 $93,310
San Francisco and Oakland Area $56.32 $117,140

ADMISSION Requirements
Bachelor of Science in business Administration

Up to 60 units of transfer credit from an accredited post-secondary education institution may be brought in.

Applicants transferring from an accredited college or university are admitted as degree students if their cumulative grade point average from all schools is 2.0 (C) or better.

Applicants with a cumulative grade point average below 2.0 may be admitted on a probationary status if the College determines there is sufficient evidence of potential to complete college studies.

PROGRAM COURSEWORK
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Managerial Accounting
ACC 302 - 3 credits

This course is designed to help students build skills in strategic financial management, performance management, and risk management. Major topics include financial statements, product costing, budgeting, cost-volume-profit relationship, and planning and control.

Financial Accounting
ACC 301 - 3 credits

This course covers development and application of financial accounting concepts and generally accepted accounting principles. Student will be able to prepare financial statements, accounting for changes in accounting principles.

Finance Management
BUS 410 - 3 credits

Students discuss the financial manager's role within a company, including financing decisions, investing decisions and risk/return tradeoffs. Additional topics include stock valuation, cash flow valuation and project evaluation criteria.

International Business
BUS 350 - 3 credits

The course examines global economies and markets, such as business customs, multinational businesses and foreign trade practices. Students also study foreign business environments, cultural dynamics, economic developments and political impacts on foreign businesses.

Business Statistics
BUS 430 - 3 credits

The course covers descriptive statistics, probability, discrete and continuous random variables, estimation, hypothesis testing, regression analysis. The course emphasizes statistics to solve management problems.

Business Law
BUS 420 - 3 credits

The course provides the student with foundational information about the U.S. legal system and dispute resolution, and their impact on business. The major content areas will include general principles of law, the relationship of business and the U.S. Constitution, state and federal legal systems, the relationship between law and ethics, contracts, sales, torts, agency law, intellectual property, and business law in the global context.

Business Administration Capstone
BUS 499 - 3 credits

Students will create a small business from ideation to creation, creating a functional business plan and docket along the way. All work will be done with real world data and scenarios.

Leadership in Business Management
BUS 465 - 3 credits

This course provides students with experience in decision-making, conflict resolution and management. Students will focus on effective business strategies, diversity, the power of influence, leadership opportunities and ethics.

Macroeconomics
ECN 320 - 3 credits

Macroeconomics applies the basic principles of economics to whole economic systems and the relationships among sectors of the economy and internationally. Topics include unemployment, inflation, national income and employment theory, government expenditures and taxation, the role of the banking system, and monetary and fiscal policies.

Management Information Systems
CIS 300 - 3 credits

Learn about the components of business information systems, with an emphasis on data transmission, management information software, and the ways that businesses manage data.

Computer Information Systems
GE 300 - 3 credits

This course provides a working knowledge of microcomputers, microcomputer operating systems, and computer applications used in the workplace. The focus of this course is on productivity software applications and professional behavior in computing, including word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentation graphics, and business-oriented utilization of the Internet.

Microeconomics
ECN 330 - 3 credits

This course introduces microeconomic concepts and analysis, supply and demand analysis, theories of the firm and individual behavior, competition and monopoly, and welfare economics. Students will also be introduced to the use of microeconomic applications to address problems in current economic policy throughout the semester.

Ethical Decision Making and Toxic Leadership
GE 303 - 3 credits

This course provides students with a self-assessment, tools, and techniques to make ethical decisions in the modern world. Students will learn how to identify and reduce toxic leadership within an organization.

Communication for the Workplace
GE 330 - 3 credits

Development of an understanding of what is needed and meant by workplace literacy and what can be done to improve the basic skills and literacy for working employees. Course content includes principles of effective writing and oral communication for education and the workplace, extensive practice in various forms of writing for the workplace, the methodology of teaching communication skills to employees, and case studies of workplace reports, negotiations, and oral presentations.

Professional Speaking in Business
GE 304 - 3 credits

This course is designed to focus on developing communication skills in different types of presentation styles for business. Students develop small group and interpersonal communication skills. Students also develop problem solving, team management and leadership skills for work-related situations.

Organizational Behavior
MGT 340 - 3 credits

Studies the impact that individuals, groups and organizational structures and processes have on behavior within organizations. Examines the foundations of individual and small-group behavior and how this behavior affects organizational processes and performance.

Principles of Management
MGT 320 - 3 credits

This course presents the principles, techniques, and concepts needed for managerial analysis and decision-making. It highlights the effective management of planning, organizing, influencing, and controlling related to the internal and external environment and issues of ethics and social responsibility.

Marketing in the New Millennium
MKT 400 - 3 credits

This course provides an overview of integrated marketing communications and the strategic role of marketing tools in modern marketing both on and offline.

Consumer Behavior
MKT 310 - 3 credits

A comprehensive study of behavioral models and concepts designed to help understand, evaluate, and predict consumer behavior. Deepens a student’s knowledge about consumer psychology and applies the knowledge from the perspective of a marketing manager. Stresses analytical thinking about consumer psychology and prediction of how marketing tactics may influence demand for products and services.