100% Online Bachelor's in Business Administration
Learn to Lead in Business Administration
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- Duration 3.5 Years
- Cost per Credit $410
- Credit Hours 120
Program Benefits
- Gain core business knowledge and experience in 6-week sessions
- Build industry skills specific to business administration
- Learn directly from industry professionals in a program with built-in support
Step Into Business Roles With Skills, Confidence, and Experience to Lead
The Business Administration major in the online BS in Business degree program builds a core set of business skills across key department areas, including marketing, management, accounting, and law. Then you dive deeper into business courses to understand how areas such as sales, project management, purchasing, planning, and more impact each other. You’ll gain a competitive edge by earning certifications like Meta Social Media Marketing Professional, and Google Data Analytics through electives.
Build Real-World Experience and Skill Sets
40 Courses
6 Weeks Each
Within the curriculum for our online BS in Business: Business Administration degree, you’ll study rich content regarding the core business areas to understand how they impact each other and use skills such as data analysis to make evidence-based decisions. You’ll get expert-level instruction and leadership training from industry professionals who prepare you for the real challenges of advanced roles and ensure you can thrive throughout your career.
Graduate with the credentials, knowledge, and critical thinking abilities employers look for in professional business roles.
To view the complete list of program courses, visit the curriculum for all business programs.
Required Business Administration Major Courses
This course’s objective is to develop the ability to read, interpret, identify the differences and the relationships between the primary financial statements. This objective is met not only by analyzing the effect of business transactions on financial statements and financial ratios but also by recording essential transactions, measuring the amounts of assets, liabilities, owner’s equities, revenues, and expenses, and preparing the primary financial statements. This course also explains the difference between the cash and accrual bases of income measurement, the use of t-account analysis in determining important measures of business activity, and how the time value of money affects the measurement of liabilities. This emphasis on financial statements is facilitated by a semester-long study of the content of corporate annual reports culminating in a comprehensive annual report project.
Prerequisite: sophomore status with the exception of highly qualified first-year accounting majors
This course provides the 21st Century foundation for business students who will need newly shaped perspectives, solid research and communication skills, positive ethical spirit, and new technological resources to work and make decisions in global economy. Students learn the basics of business, the process of innovation and the role that business plays in society. Students are encouraged to develop their own innovative capacities, whether they want to start up a business of their own, augment the capabilities of a small business, step up to the myriad of non-profit challenges, or excel in corporate America. Students learn how to think systematically as business professionals, innovators and/or entrepreneurs. By first exploring the economics of business, in this country and beyond, students begin to recognize that all businesses are subject to ongoing trends, discoveries and breakthroughs that must be accommodated. Some represent threats; others opportunities. None can be ignored. Learning that the form of a business should follow the functions it must provide, students discover the range of options available to them as they contemplate career paths that may be of interest to them. Finally, students are provided with insight into each of the areas of functional expertise found in all organizations; i.e., finance and accounting, marketing and sales, customer support, operations, logistics, et. al.
This course builds a bridge from students’ general education to the work they do in the field of business. With the aim of preparing students for both professional life and graduate work, this writing-intensive course introduces disciplinary strategies for preparing routine business correspondence, for investigating provocative issues, and for communicating to others about them. In this way, the course offers students time to learn and to practice more advanced skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening; in using appropriate software support in presentations; and in mastering information literacy in the field of business. The course emphasizes fundamental principles of communication with time-on-task and real world, discipline-specific models for communication tasks.
Prerequisite: ENG 114 and ENG 124 or ENG 134
This course is all about connecting the dots, linking various functions of business and understanding the interdependency between marketing, sales, advertising, operations/supply chain and other business functions. The purpose of this course is to enable the student to integrate the lessons learned in previous business, accounting, finance, international business and management courses through the use of case studies analyzed from the general manager’s point of view. Students will also learn the importance of score card and metrics that are essential for running a business.
Prerequisite: BUS 327 and ECO 212 or ECO 240
The BS in Business: Business Administration program requires 47 credits of core electives:
- Applied Data Elective (3 credits)
- Career Electives (6 credits)
- Discipline Elective (3 credits)
- General Electives (35 credits)
Learn more about which courses apply to these credits by speaking with an enrollment counselor.
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This course provides a manager’s persepective on the law for business students. Students learn the practical implications of law in their own lives and what they must be ready for as they encounter civil and criminal legal issues and business formation issues. Students are introduced to the court systems, parts of the government that impact business, and how they affect and impact the life of the individual and businesses. Students learn about contracts, different types of business, and areas of regulation surrounding the relationship between employers, employees, and the government.
This course studies the legal environment of business, including an examination of the format and characteristics of corporations, partnerships, and agency law. The law of contracts is studied in detail.
Prerequisite or corequisite: LAW 103
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Organizational Development and Change provides students with the opportunity to learn critical theory and application in the field of Organizational Behavior and Change and how to use that knowledge to improve organizational development to adapt quickly and effectively to change. Students apply proven methods to help organizations achieve goals and build capabilities to meet future challenges.
Prerequisite: BUS 235
Leadership requires a balanced understanding of human behavior and applied managerial skill. This course introduces organizational studies and organizational behavior. It examines the history of the field as well as the critical role that theory and research play in the discipline. Topics include the characteristics of effective leadership and organizational power, different frameworks for leadership and leadership styles, building and managing high-performing diverse teams, managing a diverse and inclusive organization, supporting diverse employees, and effective and ethical managerial decision-making.
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This course is all about connecting the dots, linking various functions of business and understanding the interdependency between marketing, sales, advertising, operations/supply chain and other business functions. The purpose of this course is to enable the student to integrate the lessons learned in previous business, accounting, finance, international business and management courses through the use of case studies analyzed from the general manager’s point of view. Students will also learn the importance of score card and metrics that are essential for running a business.
Prerequisite: BUS 327 and ECO 212 or ECO 240
The primary objective of this course is to provide a capstone experience for accounting majors that assists them in preparing for professional exams. Topics include accounting for pensions and income taxes, earnings management, and government and not-for-profit accounting. In addition, two emerging developments in financial reporting that are cutting edge in nature are presented. These are the recent moves to using fair value measurements, and the emergence of international financial reporting standards that are expected to supplant GAAP as we know it. This course includes a case study and an international financial reporting project.
Prerequisite: ACC 400
What You’ll Learn
Within the Business Administration major, you’ll enhance your ability to think critically as you develop strong management, decision-making, and problem-solving skills using careful data analysis and effective communication. Knowledge of organizational dynamics, coupled with outstanding leadership capabilities and experience, bring you confidence in knowing you’ll be an asset to the team.
By Graduation, You’ll Have Skills to:
- Analyze economic (global and domestic), sociocultural, political, legal, regulatory, and technological trends affecting any given region of this country, clarifying the likely implications of these trends on small businesses and non-profits and large corporations
- Determine market and product/service development opportunities and challenges associated with these trends
- Demonstrate the relationship between business activities, economic outcomes, and the evaluation of business performance, including all ethical considerations
- Communicate focused messages to all stakeholders, as appropriate, via all forms of media, as well as face-to-face
- Recognize diverse personalities, professional backgrounds, personal experiences, and dialogue as fundamental building blocks of high-performing teams
- Consider multiple stakeholder perspectives during the development and implementation of new strategies
- Understand core business disciplines, including Finance and Accounting, Marketing, Operations, Human Resources, IT, and Legal
Professional Career Opportunities Are Waiting For You
The online BS in Business: Business Administration program expertly prepares you for leadership roles within an organization and to enroll in graduate school. Overall, management occupations are projected to grow at a faster-than-average rate of 8% between 2021 and 2031, with business and financial occupations at 7%. It’s projected that there will be 1.1 million and 980,200 openings in each group, respectively, every year throughout the decade due to growth and replacement needs.1-2
Explore Major CareersLearn from Industry Experts
At The American Women’s College, your learning is expanded by the rich workplace experience our faculty bring to the classroom. Faculty are professionals who hold an array of titles in the fields they teach. Their involvement in the day-to-day challenges of their role and industry brings curriculums to life with real-world examples as you connect what you learn to what they share.
Faculty Spotlight
Each faculty member at TAWC incorporates real industry experience into each lesson. As a student, you’ll receive personalized, one-on-one support and graduate fully prepared to face the challenges of your chosen field.
Megan Piccus, Senior Director of Business Programs at The American Women’s College
Megan comes to Bay Path with years of business and academic experience and is delighted to bring her enthusiasm for teaching and business expertise to The American Women’s College.
Megan is the program director for the Business programs that include business administration, accounting, business analytics, operations management, strategic HR management, entrepreneurship, and marketing and digital strategies. She is additionally responsible for the leadership and organizational studies program.
Megan has worked in business for United Technologies Corporation (UTC). She was most recently at Pratt & Whitney based in East Hartford, CT, where she managed talent development for the Manufacturing Engineering population for all Pratt US operations. She also worked at United Technologies Aerospace Systems, another UTC company, where she had various operations and management roles.
Megan has 18 years of teaching experience at Springfield Technical Community College as a tenured professor with a teaching specialty in operation management (Quality/6 Sigma/Lean).
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Frequently Asked Questions
Explore our frequently asked questions for in-depth answers. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, reach out to us.
The average time it takes to earn your bachelor’s in one of the BS in Business programs is three and a half years. Please see our curriculum page for the courses and their descriptions.
Tuition is $410 per credit hour. You’ll need to complete 120 credits for a total tuition of $49,200. Please be sure to review our tuition page to review all costs.
Yes, the BS in Business programs accept up to 90 transfer credits. You can learn more about our admissions policy on our admissions page.
You’ll complete a total of 120 credits to earn the BS in Business: Business Administration degree. Take a moment to view the curriculum if you haven’t already. The total number of credits earned at The American Women’s College depends on the number of transfer credits you have (up to 90).
- A completed application
- 2.0 GPA or higher
- Transcripts
You can learn more about our admissions policy on our admissions page.
Earning your BS in Business: Business Administration degree prepares you for various careers across business units and industries. You can step into a career as a business analyst, account representative, event manager, operations or marketing researcher, public relations assistant, and more.
Sources
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational Outlook Handbook. “Management Occupations.” Retrieved from https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/home.htm.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational Outlook Handbook. “Business and Financial Occupations.” Retrieved from https://www.bls.gov/ooh/business-and-financial/home.htm.