Business Areas: Accounting, Economics, Finance, Information Technology, International Business, Management, Maritime & Supply Chain Management, or Marketing
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
For Catalog Years 2024-2027
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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Where indicated, a passing CLEP or DSST examination score will satisfy the ODU course requirement.
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.
| Military Course, Certification, Experience or Exam | ODU Equivalent Course | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CLEP College Composition (NOT Modular) | ENGL 110C English Composition | 3 |
| DSST Technical Writing | ENGL 231C Writing, Rhetoric, and Research: Special Topics | 3 |
| Instructor, career counselor, recruiter, or select specialties | Oral Communication requirement | 3 |
| CLEP Precalculus | MATH 162M Precalculus I | 3 |
| CLEP Calculus | MATH 200 Calculus for Business and Economics | 3 |
| CLEP Foreign Languages or military linguist or DLIFLC grad | Language and Culture requirement* | 6 |
| CLEP Principles of Macroeconomics | ECON 201S Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
| CLEP Principles of Microeconomics | ECON 202S Principles of Microeconomics | 3 |
| CLEP Any one of six History exams | Interpreting the Past requirement | 3 |
| CLEP American or Analyzing & Interpreting Literature | Literature requirement | 3 |
| CLEP Biology | Nature of Science requirement | 8 |
| Subtotal: 41 credits | ||
*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.
Credit for Rating:
| Military Course, Certification, Experience or Exam | ODU Equivalent Course | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CLEP or DSST multiple choices | General Education requirements | various |
| CLEP Financial Accounting | ACCT 201 & 202 Principles of Financial and Managerial Accounting | 6 |
| CLEP Introductory Business Law | FIN 331 Legal Environment of Business | 3 |
| CLEP Principles of Management or current/previous E7-E9 | MGMT 325 Contemporary Organizations and Management | 3 |
| CLEP Principles of Marketing | MKTG 311 Marketing Principles and Problems | 3 |
| DSST Principles of Finance | FIN 323 Introductory Financial Management | 3 |
| DSST Principles of Supervision or current/previous E6-E9 | SEPS 302 Workforce Supervision | 3 |
| Subtotal: 21+ credits | ||
A minimum of 30 credits must be taken at ODU and 120 credits gained in total to earn this degree.
| Course | Credits |
|---|---|
| BNAL 206 Business Analytics I | 3 |
| BNAL 306 Business Analytics II | 3 |
| BUSN 110 Introduction to Contemporary Business | 1 |
| ECON 301 Managerial Economics | 3 |
| Human Creativity requirement | 3 |
| IT 150G Basic Information Literacy and Research or any “G” course (meets Information Literacy and Research requirement) | 3 |
| IT 360T Principles of Information Technology (meets Impact of Technology requirement; waived if IT 363 taken) | 3 |
| MGMT 485W Business Policy and Strategy | 3 |
| OPMT 303 Operations Management | 3 |
| PHIL 230E Introduction to Ethics (meets Philosophy and Ethics requirement) | 3 |
| Subtotal: 28 | |
| Course | Credits |
|---|---|
| BNAL 407 Prescriptive Analytics of Management Science | 3 |
| BNAL 415 Advanced Business Analytics/Big Data Application | 3 |
| BNAL 476 Simulation Modeling and Analysis for Business Systems | 3 |
| Select two Category I courses from catalog | 6 |
| Select one Category II course from catalog | 3 |
| Select one 200-400-level (except ECON 200S) and one 300-400-level Business Elective | 6 |
| Subtotal: 24 | |
| Course | Credits |
|---|---|
| Accounting | |
| Select two approved 300-400-level Accounting courses | 6 |
| IT 425 Information Systems for International Business | 3 |
| Economics | |
| Select two approved 300-400-level Economics courses | 6 |
| ECON 450 International Economics | 3 |
| Finance | |
| Select two approved 300-400-level Finance courses | 6 |
| FIN 435 International Financial Management | 3 |
| Information Technology | |
| Select two approved 300-400-level Information Technology courses | 6 |
| IT 425 Information Systems for International Business | 3 |
| International Business | |
| ECON 450 International Economics | 3 |
| FIN 435 International Financial Management | 3 |
| MKTG 411 Multi-National Marketing | 3 |
| Management | |
| Two approved 300-400-level Management courses | 6 |
| MGMT 361 International Business Operations or MGMT 462 Comparative International Management | 3 |
| Maritime and Supply Chain Management | |
| Two approved Maritime and Supply Chain Management courses | 6 |
| MSCM 370 International Shipping | 3 |
| Marketing | |
| One approved 300-400-level Marketing course | 3 |
| MKTG 411 Multi-National Marketing | 3 |
| MKTG 475 Marketing Analytics | 3 |
| Subtotal for Application Clusters: 9 | |
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