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
Electives: BUS 331, BUS 330, BUS 372, BUS 493

Marketing (Outcome)

Core course: BUS 306
Electives: BUS 322, BUS 323, BUS 421, BUS 425

Finance (Outcome)

Prerequisite: BUS 203
Core course: BUS 307
Electives: BUS 383, BUS 384, BUS 385

Information Technology (Outcome)

Prerequisite: BUS 299
Core Course: BUS 308
Electives: BUS 469, BUS 460

Entrepreneurship (Outcome)

Prerequisite: BUS 203 (required)
Prerequisite: BUS 306 (required)
Prerequisite: BUS 307 (required)
Core Course: BUS 310
Electives: BUS 322 , BUS 451 (prereq BUS 310)