Curriculum

To earn a bachelor's degree in business administration from Oregon State, you must complete your baccalaureate core requirements, lower-division core requirements and College of Business courses within this program.

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A total of 180 quarter credits are required to graduate, including 60 upper-division credits. Most students take four to six years to complete a bachelor's degree. Complete degree requirement information about the business administration program is available on Oregon State's academic catalog.

Lower-division core (48 credits)

• Math, economics, communications and writing (18 credits)
• Business core classes (26 credits) including financial accounting, managerial accounting, intro to entrepreneurship, business law, business process management and intro to statistical inference.

Upper-division core (36-64 credits)

• Business core classes (36 credits) including international business, professional development, operations management, intro to financial management, business information systems overview, applied quantitative methods, marketing, integrative strategic experience.
• Option classes (24-28 optional credits): You can choose to add an option to your studies as a way to extend your professional preparation in one or more areas. Read more about the specialization options below.

Baccalaureate core (36 credits)

All Oregon State students pursuing a bachelor's degree must take university core classes – called the baccalaureate core – within five main areas: skills; perspectives; difference, power and discrimination; synthesis; and writing.

Electives (32-60 credits)

Depending on your career goals, you can choose elective courses that are specific to your interests. These are courses outside of the degree-completion requirements. 

Options

Once you enroll in the business administration program, you can select an area of focus from the following options:

• Digital marketing
• Family business
• General business
• Hospitality management
• Marketing
• Retail management
• Supply chain and logistics management

Transfer credits

Some degree requirements may be transferred from other institutions. Please note that a minimum of 45 credits of the last 75 credits in this degree program must be completed at Oregon State (online or on campus) to meet the academic residency requirement.

Previously earned credits must be reviewed upon admittance to OSU for appropriate articulation. Find more information about transferring credits using the Office of Admissions’ single-course search tool.