College of Business

General Business (GBA)

Program of Study at USF Sarasota-Manatee

For undergraduate admission to USF Sarasota-Manatee, students must either attend a Florida public institution and complete the Associate in Arts degree or have a minimum of 60 transferable semester hours from a regionally-accredited institution. The following requirements apply to all undergraduate majors in the College of Business:

2.5 overall GPA
Florida Public Associate in Arts degree or 60 transferrable hours from a regionally-accredited institution(s)
2.0 minimum GPA in all attempted coursework at USF

Completion of the seven state-mandated prerequisite courses (with a minimum GPA of 2.0 and a grade of C or higher in each course:

ACG 2021 Principles of Financial Accounting (or ACG X001 and X011)
ACG 2071 Principles of Managerial Accounting
CGS 1000 Computer Information Systems or CGS 2100
ECO 2013 Macroeconomics
ECO 2023 Microeconomics
MAC 2233 Applied Calculus or Business Calculus
STA 2023 Elementary Statistics or QMB 2100

Admission requirements may be subject to change. Please check with Academic Advising for the current criteria.

The Business Core common to all majors in business requires a grade of C or higher in each course.

FIN 3403 Principles of Finance
QMB 3200 Business & Economics Statistics II
BUL 3320 Law and Business I
ISM 3011 Info Systems in Organizations
MAR 3023 Basic Marketing
MAN 3025 Principles of Management
GEB 4890 Strategic Mgmt & Decision Making

Complete two of the following concentrations each with 12 hours and a 2.00 GPA in the concentration:

Accounting: (Must earn C in each course).

ACG 3103 Intermediate Financial Accounting I
ACG 3341 Cost Accounting and Control I
ACG 3401 Accounting Information Systems
TAX 4001 Concepts of Federal Income Taxation
(all 12 hours must be taken at USF with grades of at least C.)

Finance: (Must earn a C in each course)

FIN 4303 Financial Institutions and Markets
FIN 4504 Principles of Investments
FIN 4414 Advanced Corporation Finance
Plus 3 hours upper level FIN, REE, RMI electives

Management: (Must earn a C in each course)

MAN 3240 Organizational Behavioral Analysis
Plus 9 hours upper level MAN electives.

Marketing: (Must earn C in each course.)

MAR 3823 Marketing Management
Plus 9 hrs upper level MAR electives

Management Information Systems: (Must earn a C in each course)

ISM 3113 Syst Analy & Design
ISM 4212 Database Admin
Plus 6 hrs approved ISM elective

Also required for a General Business (GBA) major:

Advanced Writing course
Speech Communication
Contemporary International topic course

NOTES:

Students must be admitted to the College of Business at least one term before their anticipated graduation date. To be certified for graduation, students must achieve a 2.0 grade point average in the major field work, as well as all other college work attempted, both at USF and any other institution(s) attended.

To be certified for graduation, students must achieve a 2.0 grade point average in the major field work, as well as all other college work attempted, both at USF and any other institution(s) attended.

American Sign Language is approved by the College of Business for the Foreign Language Entrance Requirement. (FLENT) only.

All courses in the major or minor field and all foundation courses in business must be taken on a graded basis; the S/U option is not available.

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