Business Administration, B.S.

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120 Credit Hours

The Bachelor of Science in Business Administration program provides adult learners an opportunity to earn a bachelor’s degree in business. The overall goal of the program is to offer a quality, flexible degree completion curriculum that:

Affirms Christian values and beliefs;
Equips students to utilize leadership, management, and business principles;
Develops written and oral communication skills;
Instills a commitment to be critically reflective, self-directed, life-long learners;
Promotes an appreciation of the global environment of business;
Helps students better adapt to technological and cultural change; and
Empowers students to work effectively as individuals and as team members.

Admission Requirements

Candidates for admission must have a minimum of five years of post-high school, full-time work experience. Ideally, BSBA students should have already earned an associate’s degree or at least 30 semester hours of college-level credit. However, students with fewer credits may be admitted to the BSBA program.

Professional Education Credit (PEC)

Within the first semester, a student seeking credit through non-traditional professional educational credit must make application through his or her faculty advisor. All work and documentation for non-traditional credit must be completed no later than the end of the first semester that the student is enrolled. Please refer to the Academic Policies for more details.

New first semester students can earn Professional Education Credits through the following methods:

Active or inactive certificates or licenses
Professional Trainings
Military Trainings
Non Traditional Coursework
Case studies

Program Learning Outcomes

“Expected student learning outcomes specify the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes students are expected to attain in courses or in a program.” Page 69. Resource Manual for the Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), 2018.

Students will exhibit business appropriate communication skills.
Students will exhibit the ability to successfully perform in a group or team.
Students will exhibit an understanding of elements, standards, and application of critical thinking.
Students will exhibit business skills in the following areas:Technology, Research, Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Global Business, Management, Business Law.
Students will exhibit the ability to express a Christian Worldview as it relates to business practices.

Graduation Requirements

Conferral of a Baccalaureate degree in this program of study is determined by successful completion of the Baccalaureate Graduation Requirements outlined here .

NOTE: Students must earn 42 upper level (3000-4000) credit hours in order to graduate. A total of at least 21 of these upper level credit hours must be completed in the selected major.

Visit this program’s information page for additional program-specific requirements.

Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) - 45 Credit Hours

The Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) Mathematics, Global Studies, and Social Science requirements are fulfilled through other courses in this major. Only 36 of the 45 credit hours of the Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) program will still be required for the completion of this program.

Business Administration Major - 60 Credit Hours

Business Core - 45 Credit Hours

ACG 2013 - Financial Accounting 3 Credit Hour(s)
ACG 2023 - Managerial Accounting 3 Credit Hour(s)
BUS 1183 - Introduction to Business 3 Credit Hour(s)
BUS 2133 - Information Systems for Business 3 Credit Hour(s)
BUS 2343 - Principles of Macroeconomics 3 Credit Hour(s) (fulfills the Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) Social Science requirement)
BUS 2353 - Principles of Microeconomics 3 Credit Hour(s)
BUS 3053 - Business Research Methods 3 Credit Hour(s)
BUS 3193 - Business Law 1 3 Credit Hour(s)
BUS 4303 - Business Strategies 3 Credit Hour(s)
BUF 2173 - Principles of Finance 3 Credit Hour(s)
BUI 3633 - Global Business 3 Credit Hour(s) (fulfills the Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) Global Studies requirement)
BUM 2183 - Principles of Management 3 Credit Hour(s)
BUM 4053 - Leadership & Ethics 3 Credit Hour(s)
BUR 2153 - Principles of Marketing 3 Credit Hour(s)
MAT 1853 - College Algebra 3 Credit Hour(s) (fulfills the Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) Mathematics requirement)
NOTE: If you have not yet completed any college level math courses at the freshman level or higher, you must take a math placement test offered at PBA. There is no cost for the placement test. The score you receive will determine the appropriate math class as your beginning point. All students in this program must complete College Algebra (MAT 1853) because it is a prerequisite for most business courses and it is a required course in the degree plan.

If you have completed college level math courses, a review of those courses will allow us to determine the appropriate math course for you.

Business Administration Courses - 15 Credit Hours

BUF 3213 - Managerial Finance 3 Credit Hour(s)
BUI 4513 - International Management 3 Credit Hour(s)
BUM 4313 - Organizational Behavior 3 Credit Hour(s)
BUR 3023 - Consumer Behavior 3 Credit Hour(s)
BUR 4443 - Marketing Management 3 Credit Hour(s)

Additional Required Credit Hours - 24 Credit Hours

These additional hours may be fulfilled by a minor, second major, general electives taken concurrently, previous coursework taken at PBA or through transfer credits.

Sample Degree Plan

Business Administration, B.S. Degree Plan