General Requirements
Bachelor of science in business administration
Business administration pre-professions
Students entering college for the first time and eligible for admission to K-State must enroll in the business administration pre- professions program (BAPP). Students must achieve a 2.3 K-State GPA by the time they complete 30 credit hours to remain in good standing.
Students with previous academic work (either at K-State or elsewhere) requesting transfer to the College of Business Administration must have a 2.3 or higher grade point average and enroll in the BAPP curriculum. Transfer students must achieve a K-State GPA of 2.5 or higher on the first 15 or more hours of K-State course work to be able to continue in the College of Business Administration. For purposes of admission, grade point averages will be based on all courses attempted at colleges or universities.
The BAPP program provides course work in communications, mathematics, social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. The purpose of the BAPP curriculum is to help students develop the descriptive and analytical foundation necessary for the study of business administration. Remaining “core courses” in business administration and courses in the degree-track (major) are taken after successful completion of the BAPP program.
The BAPP is expressly designed as a non- degree program; students with 60 or more credit hours will not be allowed to enroll in BAPP unless they are first-semester transfer students. Students with more than 60 hours who have consistently met the grade point requirements may be admitted into degree-track majors.
Transfer students must complete at least 15 hours at K-State before they can be admited into degree track majors.
Admission to a degree-track (major) in accounting, finance, management, marketing, management information systems, or general business is necessary for graduation. Applicants for admission to one of the degree tracks, other than accounting and management information systems (MIS), will be accepted upon completion of a minimum of 45 credit hours with a K-State grade point average of 2.5 or above. For accounting and MIS the grade point average for admission to the degree track is 3.0 K-State GPA.
Requirements for BAPP
| Communications | ||
| ENGL 100 | Expository Writing I | 3 |
| ENGL 200 | Expository Writing II | 3 |
| SPCH 105 | Public Speaking IA | 2 |
| Communications elective | ||
| Communications elective | ||
| Choose six communications elective hours from the following list: | ||
| ENGL 300 | Expository Writing III | |
| MKTG 542 | Professional Selling and Sales Management | |
 SPCH 311 | Business and Professional Speaking | |
| SPCH 320 | Theories of Human Communication (theory) | |
| SPCH 321 | Public Speaking II | |
| SPCH 322 | Interpersonal Communication | |
| SPCH 323 | Nonverbal Communication | |
| SPCH 325 | Argumentation and Debate | |
| SPCH 326 | Small Group Discussion Methods | |
| SPCH 331 | Criticism of Public Discourse (theory) | |
| SPCH 399 | Honor Seminar Small Group Communication | |
| SPCH 425 | Theories of Organizational Communication (theory) | |
| SPCH 430 | Freedom of Speech | |
| SPCH 435 | Political Communication (theory) | |
| SPCH 450 | Special Studies in Human Discourse | |
| SPCH 480 | Intercultural Communication | |
| SPCH 526 | Persuasion | |
| SPCH 726 | Small Group Communication (theory) | |
| SPCH 735 | Leadership Communication (theory) | |
| Courses approved for university general education credit. | ||
| Note: At least three hours of the communication electives must be skills courses (as apposed to theory). | ||
| Quantitative | ||
| MATH 100 | College Algebra** | |
| MATH 205 | General Calculus and Linear Algebra** | |
| Computing | ||
| CIS 101 | Introduction to Personal Computing | |
| CIS 102 | Spreadsheet Applications | |
| CIS 103 | Database Applications | |
| Any of the following can be substituted for CIS 101, 102, 103: | ||
| CIS 200 | Fundamentals of Software Design | |
| CIS 209 | C Programming | |
| CIS210 | Introduction to Construction Computer Programming | |
| Optional: CIS 104 Word Processing (1 hr.) will count as unrestricted elective. | ||
| MANGT 366 | Management Information Systems | |
| STAT 350 | Business and Economic Statistics I Automatic substitutions: STAT 320, 330, 340, or 510 | |
| Economics | ||
| ECON 110 | Principles of Macroeconomics | |
| ECON 120 | Principles of Microeconomics | |
| Social science electives | ||
| Choose nine social science elective hours from the following list: | ||
| ANTH | All courses except those which count as humanities or natural science electives. | |
| DEN 450 | Impact of Technology on Society | |
| ECON | All courses except ECON 110 and 120. Courses may not overlap with those used to satisfy economics, restricted, or unrestricted electives. | |
| FSHS 105 | Introduction to Personal and Family Finance | |
| FSHS 110 | Introduction to Human Development | |
| FSHS 301 | The Helping Relationship | |
| FSHS 302 | You and Your Sexuality | |
| FSHS 350 | Family Relationships and Gender Roles | |
| FSHS 400 | Family and Consumer Economics | |
| GEOG | All courses except GEOG220 and 221 | |
| GNHE 310 | Human Needs | |
| POLSC | All courses | |
| PSYCH | All courses | |
| SOCIO | All courses | |
| Humanities electives | 6 | |
| Choose six humanities elective hours from the following list: | ||
| AMETH 160 | Introduction to American Ethnic Studies | |
| ANTH 515 | Creativity and Culture* | |
| ANTH 516 | Ethnomusicology* | |
| ANTH 517 | African American Music and Culture* | |
| ARCH 301 | Appreciation of Architecture | |
| ART | All courses* | |
| DANCE | All courses* | |
| DEN 210 | History of Building and Construction | |
| ENGL | All literature courses | |
| ENVD 205 | Graphics I | |
| ENVD206 | Graphics II | |
| ENVD 250 | History of Design Environment I | |
| ENVD 251 | History of Design Environment II | |
| HIST | All courses | |
| MUSIC | All courses * | |
| PHILO | All courses | |
| THTRE | All courses* | |
| WOMST | All courses | |
| All modern language courses (ARAB, FREN, GRMN, ITAL, JAPAN, LATIN, RUSSN, SPAN,, URDU2 | ||
| *Students may take a maximum of 3 credit hours in participation or artistic skill development courses. | ||
| Natural science electives | ||
| Choose seven elective hours from the following list: | ||
| AGRON 220 | Crop Science | |
| AGRON 305 | Soils | |
| AGRON315 | Properties of Soils | |
| AGRON 335 | Environmental Quality | |
| ANTH 280 | Introduction to Physical Anthropology | |
| ANTH 281 | Introduction to Physical Anthropology Lab | |
| ASI 102 | Principles of Animal Science | |
| BIOCH | All courses | |
| BIOL | All courses | |
| CHM | All courses | |
| ENTOM 312 | General Entomology | |
| ENTOM 313 | General Entomology Lab | |
| GEOL | All courses | |
| GEOG220 | Environmental Geography I (4 hrs., includes 1 hr. lab) | |
| GEOG 221 | Environmental Geography II (4 hrs., includes 1 hr. lab) | |
| HORT 201 | Introduction to Horticultural Science | |
| HN 132 | Basic Nutrition | |
| PHYS | All courses | |
| Business core courses | ||
| ACCTG 231 | Accounting for Business Operations | 3 |
| ACCTG 241 | Accounting for Investing and Financing | 3 |
| GENBA 101 | Business Orientation | |
| Note: Students who enter the College of Business Administration with 45 or more credit hours completed are not required to take Business Orientation. | ||
| **Mathematics requirement | ||
| Students are eligible to take MATH 100 College Algebra if they meet one of the following prerequisites: | ||
| 1. MATH 010 Intermediate Algebra with grade of B or better | ||
| 2. Two years of high school algebra and a College Algebra PROB ≥ C of 60 or more on the ACT assessment | ||
| 3. A score of at least 18 on the mathematics placement test | ||
| Students who don't meet these prerequisites are encouraged to take MATH 010 Intermediate Algebra before taking College Algebra. Credit received for Intermediate Algebra does not apply toward the hours required for graduation. | ||
| Students are eligible to take MATH 205 General Calculus and Linear Algebra if they meet one of the following prerequisites: | ||
| 1. MATH 100 College Algebra with grade of C or better | ||
| 2. Two units of high school algebra and one unit of high school trigonometry | ||
| Students are eligible to take MATH 220 Analytic Geometry and Calculus I if they meet one of the following prerequisites: | ||
| 1. MATH 100 College Algebra with grade of B or better and MATH 150 Plane Trigonometry with grade of C or better | ||
| 2. Three years of college prep math (including trigonometry) and a Calculus I Prob ≥ C of 55 or more on the ACT assessment | ||
| 3. A score of at least 26 on the mathematics placement test | ||
| Students who test directly into MATH 205 or MATH 220 and complete the course will have the MATH 100 requirement waived, and three credit hours will be added to the unrestricted/nonbusiness electives requirement of his/her degree track program (two credit hours will be added if MATH 220 is taken). | ||
The exact sequence of the courses to be taken is worked out between student and advisor. There is some flexibility in scheduling. To enroll in any course, students must have prerequisites as stated in the catalog.
Applications for a degree-track (major) may be made by the semester during which the student will have completed at least 45 credit hours of the pre-professional requirements. Degree-track applications must be filed by the time students complete 60 credit hours. Decisions for admission will be made as soon as possible after the end of the semester.
Degree requirements
Candidates for the bachelor of science in business administration must complete at least 27 credit hours of resident instruction in upper-division courses after acceptance and enrollment in a degree track program in the college. Exceptions may be considered for those who have consistently exceeded a 2.50 grade point average on upper-division courses applied toward the degree. See additional residency requirements earlier in this catalog.