BBA General Business: Degree Completion

This General Business degree completion program is for all students via the Internet.

The major in general business is based on a broad range of course options rather than a narrow focus on a single discipline. Graduates find careers in large and small businesses, in government agencies, and in the nonprofit sector.

Freshman/Sophomore Lower-Division Courses

Listed below are the required lower-division NMSU courses. These courses may be completed at NMSU in Las Cruces or via the Internet, or equivalent courses may be taken at a community college or 4-year institution close to where you live. A number of the courses are available as Internet courses from the Las Cruces, Alamogordo, Doña Ana, Grants or Carlsbad campuses. General education courses must be selected from the approved New Mexico General Education Common Core list.

General Education and Other Foundation Courses

COMM 265G. Principles of Communication (3 cr)
ENGL 111G. Rhetoric and Composition (4 cr)
ENGL 203G. Business and Professional Communication (3 cr)
E ST 251. Statistics for Business and the Behavioral Sciences (3 cr)
MATH 120. Intermediate Algebra (3 cr)
MATH 121. College Algebra (3 cr)
MATH 142G. Calculus for Biological and Management Sciences (3 cr)
Social and Behavioral Sciences (6-9 cr)
Humanities and Fine Arts (6-9 cr)
Laboratory Sciences (8 cr)

Lower-Division Business Core

ACCT 251. Management Accounting (3 cr)
ACCT 252. Financial Accounting (3 cr)
BCIS 110G. Intro to Computerized Information Systems (3 cr)
BUSA 111. Business in a Global Society (3 cr)
ECON 251G. Principles of Macroeconomics (3 cr)
ECON 252G. Principles of Microeconomics (3 cr)

Junior/Senior Upper-Division Courses

NMSU offers these courses over the Internet. When you have substantially completed the required courses for the Freshman/Sophomore Lower-Division Courses and transferred the credits to NMSU, you may qualify to take the following courses through NMSU’s distance education program. All students are required to complete a minimum of 128 degree credits including at least 48 credits of upper-division courses (numbered 300 or above).

See the Degree Plan/Sample Schedule.

Business Core Courses (27 credits)

BCIS 338. Business Information Systems I (3 cr)
BLAW 316. Legal Environment of Business (3 cr)
BUSA 421. Integrated Business Concepts I (3 cr)
ECON. Upper Division Elective (3 cr)
FIN 341. Financial Analysis and Markets (3 cr)
MGT 309. Human Behavior in Organizations (3 cr)
MGT 344. Production/Operations Management (3 cr)
MKTG 303. Principles of Marketing (3 cr)
Upper Division Business Elective (3 cr)

General Business Major (24 credits)

24 Upper Division Credits. The Degree Checklists and Sample Schedules contain details on specific course requirements.

Viewing a Wider World (6 credits)

Two upper division courses designated VWW outside the College of Business.