Business Management & Administration, BSBA
Program Description
The Business Management & Administration major provides students with a broad, flexible, and practical business education focused on managing people, leading teams, and turning ideas into action. Designed for students seeking versatility in their career paths, the major combines foundational business knowledge with applied management and leadership skills that are essential across today’s organizations.
Students complete required coursework in human resources management, leadership, and entrepreneurship, gaining a strong understanding of how organizations operate and how effective managers guide people, projects, and strategy. Through a curated set of elective options, students may tailor the major to their interests in areas such as project management, marketing, risk management, sales, and entrepreneurship. Graduates of the Business Management & Administration major are well prepared for entry-level management roles and long-term career growth across a wide range of industries and organizational settings.
Students who major in non-business fields have the option of completing a Minor in Management and Leadership, which can be tailored to their interests.
Why Take This Major?
To thrive in today’s challenging marketplace, businesses need attentive managers, inspirational leaders, and people capable of bringing out the best in others. Our Business Management and Administration program is designed to develop these professional skills via courses that help students assess and develop their skills in leading and motivating others, providing effective feedback, persuading, negotiating, resolving conflicts, and designing satisfying and meaningful workplaces.
What distinguishes this major is its intentional focus on human capital, leadership, and applied management skills. Through coursework in managing human resources, leadership theory and practice, and entrepreneurship, students learn how to motivate teams, manage projects, build relationships, and turn ideas into action.
Degree Earned
B.S.B.A.
Required for Graduation
- Courses
- Major: 20
- Total: 40
- Credits
- Major: 61
- Total: 120
- GPA
- Major: 2.0
- Cumulative: 2.0
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the Business Management and Administration program, students will be able to:
- apply existing leadership theory to real-world organizational challenges, demonstrating both self-awareness and team-based analysis across several low and high-fidelity scenarios and a qualitative research project focusing on current real-world leadership issues.
- design a strategic human capital plan that includes recruitment, training, performance evaluation, and employee development strategies, as assessed through a series of job analysis, selection, training, and development plans.
- demonstrate core competencies in small business development, including product-market fit assessment of innovations, defining target markets and their needs, competitive landscape, and growth opportunities towards making strategic decisions related to human capital in both new and existing business contexts.
Progress Chart
Level One - Core Courses
12 courses and 2 modules required.
Major Requirements
Major requirements include 4 Level Two ILO requirements, fulfilled through the major.
Students in this major must complete 40 courses in total in order to graduate. 20 courses will be from this major program.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Level One - Core Courses | ||
| Universal Required Courses | ||
| Students must complete the following 4 courses. | ||
| ILO 8.1: Written Communication | ||
| ENG 110 | College Writing I: Persuasion | 3 |
| or ENG 111 | Academic Writing & Writing Lab | |
| ILO 5.1: Information Literacy | ||
| ENG 210 | College Writing II: Research | 3 |
| ILO 1.1: Understanding Diverse Perspectives | ||
| FYS 130 | First-Year Academic Seminar 1 | 3 |
| ILO 2.1: Reflective Thinking and Valuing | ||
| REL 100 | Religion Matters | 3 |
| Elective Core Courses | ||
| Students must complete 1 course in each of the following 4 ILOs. | ||
| ILO 3.1a: Scientific Reasoning | ||
| Choose course within ILO | 3 | |
| ILO 3.1b: Quantitative Reasoning | ||
| MTH 114 | Applied Business Calculus | 4 |
| ILO 6.1: Technological Competency | ||
| CSC 155 | Introduction to Computer Applications for Business | 3 |
| ILO 8.1a/12.1: Oral Communication/Collaborative Engagement | ||
| BUS 150 | Presentation and Collaboration Skills for Business | 3 |
| Distinct Discipline Core Courses | ||
| Students must complete 1 course in each of the following 4 ILOs. Each course must be from a different discipline. (A "discipline" is represented by the 3- or 4-letter prefix attached to each course.) | ||
| ILO 4.1: Critical Analysis and Reasoning | ||
| ECN 150 | Introductory Macroeconomics: The U.S. in the Global Economy I | 3 |
| ILO 9.1: Creative and Artistic Expression | ||
| Choose course within ILO | 3 | |
| ILO 10.1: Ethical Understanding and Reasoning | ||
| Choose course within ILO | 3 | |
| ILO 11.1: Cultural and Global Awareness and Sensitivity | ||
| Choose course within ILO | 3 | |
| Universal Required Modules | ||
| Students must complete the following 2 non-credit modules. 2 | ||
| ILO 7.1a | ||
| Health Literacy Module | ||
| ILO 7.1b | ||
| Financial Literacy Module | ||
| Major Requirements | ||
| Level Two | ||
| Students must complete 1 course/learning experience in each of the 4 commitments. | ||
| ILO 2.2: Broader Identity (Capstone Course/Experience) | ||
| BUS 400 | Business Strategy (ILO 2.2) | 3 |
| Select one ILO from 3.2a, 3.2b, 4.2, 5.2, 6.2, 7.2a, or 7.2b: Expanded Literacies | ||
| BUS 304 | Prescriptive Analytics (ILO 6.2) | 3 |
| ILO 8.2b: Effective Expression (Writing-Intensive Course) | ||
| BUS 203 | Organizational Behavior and Skill Development | 3 |
| Select one ILO from 10.2, 11.2, or 12.2: Active Responsibility | ||
| BUS 303 | Legal and Ethical Environment of Business (ILO 10.2) | 3 |
| All Other Required Courses | ||
| Business Core 3 | ||
| BUS 100 | Business Perspectives | 4 |
| BUS 101 | Introduction to Financial Accounting | 3 |
| BUS 102 | Accounting for Financial and Managerial Decision-Making | 3 |
| BUS 200 | Business Professionalism and Career Preparation | 3 |
| BUS 202 | Descriptive and Predictive Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 203 | Organizational Behavior and Skill Development | 3 |
| BUS 204 | Principles of Marketing with Applications | 3 |
| BUS 205 | Business Systems for Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 206 | Financial Markets and Institutions: Principles and Applications | 3 |
| BUS 208 | Fundamentals of Financial Management | 2-3 |
| BUS 303 | Legal and Ethical Environment of Business | 3 |
| BUS 304 | Prescriptive Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 400 | Business Strategy | 3 |
| ECN 201 | Introductory Microeconomics: Business Firm and Market Analysis I | 3 |
| Select one of the following International Business Courses/Experiences: | 3 | |
| International Economics | ||
| Ecn of International Business | ||
| International Trade and Trade Wars | ||
| International Business | ||
| International Marketing | ||
| International Finance | ||
| Managing in The Global Economy | ||
| Discipline Specific | ||
| MGT 312 | Managing Human Resources: A Skills-Based Approach | 3 |
| MGT 355 | Leadership: Theories and Real-World Challenges | 3 |
| ENT 201 | Principles of Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| Select three of the following: | 9 | |
| Personal Selling | ||
| Sales Management | ||
| Business to Business Marketing | ||
| Consumer Behavior | ||
| Influence in Organizations: A Skills-Based Approach | ||
| Managing in The Global Economy | ||
| Project Management | ||
| Special Topics | ||
| Dispute Resolution | ||
| Employee Benefit Planning | ||
| Risk Management | ||
| Entrepreneurial Applications | ||
| Growing A Business: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management | ||
| Free Electives | ||
| In addition to the requirements listed above, students must take enough courses to the fulfill graduation credit requirements for their School and major. | ||
| Total Credits | 112-113 | |
Course Sequence
Successful completion of BUS 203 Organizational Behavior and Skill Development is required for many 300- or 400-level MGT courses. Model rosters should be followed for course sequencing.
Courses
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MGT 312 | Managing Human Resources: A Skills-Based Approach | 3 |
| MGT 355 | Leadership: Theories and Real-World Challenges | 3 |
| ENT 201 | Principles of Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| MKT 301 | Personal Selling | 3 |
| MKT 303 | Sales Management | 3 |
| MKT 304 | Business to Business Marketing | 3 |
| MKT 371 | Consumer Behavior | 3 |
| MGT 311 | Influence in Organizations: A Skills-Based Approach | 3 |
| MGT 370 | Special Topics | 3 |
| MGT 353 | Dispute Resolution | 3 |
| FIN 313 | Employee Benefit Planning | 3 |
| or RMI 313 | Employee Benefit Planning | |
| FIN 314 | Risk Management | 3 |
| or RMI 314 | Risk Management | |
| ENT 301 | Entrepreneurial Applications | 3 |
| MGT 354 | Growing A Business: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management | 3 |
| or ENT 354 | Entrepreneurial & Small Bus Mgt | |
Contact Information
Dr. Meghan Pierce
Professor and Chair
Department of Marketing, Management & Leadership
Founders' Hall 330
piercem@lasalle.edu
(215) 951-1493