BBA Online Program (General Business Concentration)
UM-Flint is proud to offer a business degree that is designed to fit your life. Online courses fit into any schedule and make it easy to earn your degree. The BBA Online program at UM-Flint offers a unique combination of rigor, convenience and flexibility. Faculty inspire interactive learning though a virtual classroom. The convenience of the BBA Online program enables you to reach your educational goals while balancing your professional and personal life.
UM-Flint’s BBA Online program offers:
• Highly qualified faculty with significant online teaching experience.
• On-site faculty who are accessible and available.
• State-of-the-art online teaching technology using the Blackboard learning platform.
• Comprehensive technical and academic support to answer your questions.
• Full accreditation from AACSB.
• The quality and academic excellence of a University of Michigan and degree.
Academics
The BBA Online program follows the traditional academic calendar. Students are required to participate in discussions and activities in online classrooms on a regular basis throughout each semester. Students seeking a BBA online are required to complete business core courses and business electives to fulfill requirements for the general business concentration. These courses are fully available online.
Students must also complete the required general education credits which may or may not be available online. These credits can be completed at UM-Flint or transferred from another university. We encourage you to work with a School of Management advisor to find the best option for you and to ensure your credits will properly transfer.
Additionally, students intending to concentrate in general business online, should complete the following course work:
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Credits: 3
Category: Required for Accounting Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 201, BUS 202, and their prerequisites, at least junior standing
Offered: 1 section in Fall, 1 section in Winter, occasionally 1 section in Spring/Summer
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Collecting, analyzing and controlling cost of manufacturing a product or rendering a service. Particular emphasis on
cost accounting systems, allocations, and providing different costs for different purposes in helping shape business strategy.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for Accounting and Elective Finance Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 201, BUS 202, and their prerequisites, at least junior standing
Offered: 1 section in Fall, 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Introduction of accounting theory and focus on problems associated with acquisition, maintenance, depreciation and
replacement of assets. Also includes income statement, balance sheet, current assets, investments, plant assets, and natural resources.
Credits: 2
Category: Elective for Accounting Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 201, BUS 202, and their prerequisites; at least junior standing
Offered: occasionally 1 section in Spring/Summer
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Accounting cycle; governmental accounting; budget process; principles of fund accounting; accounting for educational institutions, health care and welfare organizations; use of accounting data.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for Marketing Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 211, BUS 330, and their prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall, 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Methods of determining organizational requirements for information, and for reducing available data to develop needed additional information. Use of computer to perform hands-on data analysis required.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Operations Management Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 313, and its prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall or Winter
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Management of service operations; forecasting, routing, service facility design and layout; service quality; queuing theory; capacity planning; data envelopment analysis; yield management. Case studies used to enhance real world application of the methodologies discussed.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for all concentrations
Pre-requisites: At least junior standing
Offered: Every term
Instructional Format: Independent
Description: Business Internship Program job assignment, planned by student, supervisor, and coordinator. Duties will relate to student’s academic program. May be repeated once for credit.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for Accounting Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 201, BUS 202, BUS 381, and their prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall, 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Technology and methods underlying financial record keeping systems; flow charting of financial and cost data movements; attention to accounting applications of computing systems and computer-assisted decision models. Designing and implementing databases for financial and managerial decision-making purposes. This course includes extensive use of cases.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Marketing Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 211, BUS 330, ECN 201, ECN 202, and their prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Strategies involved in marketing of services. External environmental and internal control factors as applied to professional, financial, educational, entertainment, health care, governmental, religious, non-profit, and other organizations, institutions and agencies.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Marketing and Operations Management Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 332, ECN 201, ECN 202, and their prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Nature of new product innovations and their importance to the firm. Development processes with organizational methods for achieving new product success.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Operations Management, Marketing, and Required Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management Concentrations
Pre-requisites: COM/ENG 338; senior standing
Offered: 1 section in Fall
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Experiential focus on developing skills necessary for effective management. Self-presentation, interpersonal influence, counseling, feedback and performance appraisal, process observation, bargaining and negotiating.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Accounting, Finance and Operations Management Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 361, and their prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: For accounting and finance students. Uses and interpretation of public accounting statements and economic data from the markets. Use of quantitative methods to analyze, forecast, and examine market reactions to data. Emphasis on real world cases and communication of results through brief written reports and presentations.
