Business Analytics (BSBA) Military Pathway
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
For Catalog Years 2023-2024
This military pathway outlines degree requirements that may be satisfied by military training and experience or exams, as well as requirements that must be satisfied through courses taken at Old Dominion University.
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Requirements Potentially Met Outside the Classroom
Where indicated, a passing CLEP or DSST examination score will satisfy the ODU course requirement.
- CLEP Exams - College Board
- DSST Exams - GetCollegeCredit.com
- ODU CLEP and DSST Credits
- CLEP Preparation - ModernStates.org
A student may forego the CLEP or DSST option and satisfy the requirements by taking the actual courses. If a course is taken elsewhere, check first for transfer equivalency in ODU's Transfer Equivalency Tool.
Prior learning credit is also available in specific situations at a cost of 20-50% of the current tuition rate. Prior learning credit may not be paid for by military tuition assistance (TA). Prior learning credit cannot exceed 60 credit hours.
Lower Division General Education Requirements
| Military Course, Certification, Experience or Exam | ODU Equivalent Course | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CLEP College Composition (NOT Modular) | ENGL 110C English Composition I | 3 |
| DSST Technical Writing | ENGL 231C Technical Writing | 3 |
| CLEP Precalculus | MATH 162M Precalculus | 3 |
| CLEP Calculus | MATH 200 Calculus for Business and Economics | 3 |
| CLEP Financial Accounting | ACCT 201 & 202 Principles of Financial and Managerial Accounting | 6 |
| CLEP Principles of Macroeconomics | ECON 201S Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
| CLEP Principles of Microeconomics | ECON 202S Principles of Microeconomics | 3 |
| CLEP American Literature OR Analyzing & Interpreting Literature | ENGL 114L OR ENGL 112L Literature Requirement | 3 |
| CLEP – Biology | BIOL 121N, 122N, 123N, 124N Nature of Science Requirement | 8 |
| CLEP – Any one of five available History exams | Interpreting the Past Requirement | 3 |
| CLEP – Introductory Business Law | FIN 331 Legal Environment of Business | 3 |
| CLEP – Principles of Management | MGMT 325 Contemporary Organizations and Management | 3 |
| CLEP – Principles of Marketing | MKTG 311 Marketing Principles and Problems | 3 |
| DSST – Human Resource Management | MGMT 340 (one 300-400-Level Business Elective) | 3 |
| DSST – Principles of Finance | FIN 323 Introductory Financial Management | 3 |
| CLEP – Foreign Languages OR military linguist OR Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) graduate | Language and Culture Requirement* | 6 |
| Instructor, recruiter, career counselor, select specialties | COMM 101R Public Speaking | 3 |
| Current or previous E7-E9 OR DSST Principles of Supervision | SEPS 302 Workforce Supervision (upper division general education requirement option) | 3 |
| Determined by faculty evaluation of exam scores, college, CCAF, and joint service transcripts plus interview | IT 150G Information Literacy and Research | 3 |
| Determined by faculty evaluation of exam scores, college, CCAF, and joint service transcripts plus interview | IT 201 Introduction to Information Systems | 3 |
| Determined by faculty evaluation of exam scores, college, CCAF, and joint service transcripts plus interview | One 200-400-level Business Elective | 3 |
*ODU’s Language and Culture requirement can be satisfied by three years of a foreign language or two years of two foreign languages in high school. Students whose native language is not English are exempt from taking a foreign language for general education.
Total requirements potentially met outside classroom: 74 credits
Requirements Met at ODU or other Regionally Accredited School
A minimum of 30 credits must be taken at ODU and 120 credits gained in total to earn this degree.
| Course | Credits |
|---|---|
| Human Creativity requirement | 3 |
| Philosophy and Ethics requirement | 3 |
| BUSN 110 Introduction to Contemporary Business | 1 |
| BNAL 206 Business Analytics I | 3 |
| BNAL 306 Business Analytics II | 3 |
| BNAL 407 Prescriptive Analytics of Management Science | 3 |
| BNAL 415/515 Advanced Business Analytics/Big Data Applications | 3 |
| BNAL 476 Simulation Modeling & Analysis for Business Systems | 3 |
| IT 360T Principles of Information Technology | 3 |
| Two major electives from Category I | 6 |
| One major elective from Category II | 3 |
| Three concentration courses | 9 |
| ECON 301 Managerial Economics | 3 |
| OPMT 303 Operations Management | 3 |
| MGMT 485W Business Policy and Strategy | 3 |
| One or two Upper Division General Education courses | 3-6 |
Total requirements met at ODU or elsewhere: 55+ credits
Total credits for degree: 120-126
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