This minor provides you with an opportunity to attain fundamental levels of competency in leadership and management. These competencies also enhance your overall analysis and decision-making abilities, and will contribute to success in your chosen career field. Earning the Business Administration minor recognizes that you have gained proficiency in at least two core management and entrepreneurship disciplines.

The experience of Business Administration majors and of students from other majors that have fulfilled the equivalent of the Business Administration minor suggests that employers place a high value on management and entrepreneurship competencies.

The minor enables you to select those competency areas that will best augment your studies in any CSUMB major to give you management and entrepreneurial knowledge, skills and attitudes that will contribute to success in your chosen career field.

Required Courses

Total credits in the minor: 16 credits of upper-division coursework (grade "C" or above)

Students must complete

  • Two outcomes and their corresponding core courses (2 courses; 4 units each)
  • One elective course in one of your selected outcomes (4 units)
  • One more elective course from any of the outcomes (4 units)

Leadership and Management (Outcome)

Core course: BUS 305: Principles of Management
Electives: BUS 331: Organizational Behavior, BUS 330: Human Resources Management, BUS 372, BUS 493: International Comparative Management

Marketing (Outcome)

Core course: BUS 306: Fundamentals of Marketing
Electives: BUS 322: Integrated Marketing Communications, BUS 323: Service Marketing, BUS 421: Marketing Research, BUS 425: Global Marketing

Finance (Outcome)

Prerequisite: BUS 203: Financial Accounting
Core course: BUS 307: Finance
Electives: BUS 383: Intermediate Accounting I, BUS 384: Intermediate Accounting II, BUS 385: Income Tax I

Information Technology (Outcome)

Prerequisite: BUS 299: Business Analytics Fundamentals
Core Course: BUS 308: Computer Information Systems
Electives: BUS 469: Database Management, BUS 460: Emerging Technology & Business Models

Entrepreneurship (Outcome)

Prerequisite: BUS 203: Financial Accounting (required)
Prerequisite: BUS 306: Fundamentals of Marketing (required)
Prerequisite: BUS 307: Finance (required)
Core Course: BUS 310: Entrepreneurship
Electives: BUS 322: Integrated Marketing Communications , BUS 451: Venture Formation/Finance (prereq BUS 310: Entrepreneurship)