Finance (BSBA) Military Pathway
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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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 | 3 |
| DSST Technical Writing | ENGL 231C Writing, Rhetoric, and Research: Special Topics | 3 |
| Instructor, career counselor, recruiter, select specialties | COMM 101R Public Speaking | 3 |
| CLEP Precalculus and Calculus | MATH 162M Precalculus I and MATH 200 Calculus for Business and Economics | 6 |
| CLEP Foreign Languages or military linguist or DLIFLC grad | Language and Culture requirement* | 6 |
| CLEP Any Social Science exam except Educational Psych | Human Behavior requirement | Met in major |
| CLEP Any History exam | Interpreting the Past requirement | 3 |
| CLEP American or Analyzing & Interpreting Literature | Literature requirement | 3 |
| CLEP Biology | Nature of Science requirement | 8 |
| Subtotal: 35 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.
Department, Major or Core Requirements
| Military Course, Certification, Experience or Exam | ODU Equivalent Course | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CLEP Financial Accounting | ACCT 201 & 202 Principles of Financial & Managerial Accounting | 6 |
| CLEP Introductory Business Law | FIN 331 Legal Environment of Business | 3 |
| CLEP Principles of Marketing | MKTG 311 Marketing Principles and Problems | 3 |
| CLEP Principles of Macroeconomics | ECON 201S Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
| CLEP Principles of Microeconomics | ECON 202S Principles of Microeconomics | 3 |
| DSST Principles of Finance | FIN 323 Introductory Financial Management | 3 |
| Current or previous E6-E9 | STEM 251G Computer Literacy: Communication and Information (meets Impact of Technology req) | 3 |
| Current or previous E6-E9 or DSST Principles of Supervision | SEPS 302 Workforce Supervision (meets free elective) | 3 |
| Current or previous E7-E9 or CLEP Principles of Management | MGMT 325 Contemporary Organizations and Management | 3 |
| Current or previous E8-E9 | MGMT 330 Organizational Behavior (meets Business elective) | 3 |
| Current or previous E9 | MGMT 410 Leadership in Organizations (meets Business elective) | 3 |
| Subtotal: 36 credits | ||
Total requirements potentially met outside classroom: 71 credits
Requirements Met at ODU or Elsewhere
A minimum of 30 credits must be taken at ODU and 120 credits gained in total to earn this degree.
Business Administration Core Requirements
| Course | Credits |
|---|---|
| Human Creativity requirement | 3 |
| IT 360T Principles of Information Technology (meets Impact of Technology requirement) | 3 |
| PHIL 230E Introduction to Ethics or any upper-level "E" course (meets Philosophy and Ethics requirement) | 3 |
| BNAL 206 Business Analytics I | 3 |
| BNAL 306 Business Analytics II | 3 |
| ECON 301 Managerial Economics | 3 |
| MGMT 485W Business Policy and Strategy | 3 |
| OPMT 303 Operations Management | 3 |
| Subtotal: 24 credits |
Finance Requirements
| Course | Credits |
|---|---|
| BUSN 110 Introduction to Contemporary Business | 1 |
| RMI 317 Principles of Risk Management and Insurance, or REST 319 Principles of Real Estate | 3 |
| FIN 431 Investments | 3 |
| FIN 432 Intermediate Financial Management | 3 |
| FIN 435 International Financial Management | 3 |
| FIN 439 Financial Decision Making | 3 |
| Select three major elective courses | 9 |
| One Free Elective not met elsewhere | 0-3 |
| One 200-400 level Business Elective (not ECON 200S) not met elsewhere | 3 |
| One 300-400 level Business Elective not met elsewhere | 3 |
| Subtotal: 34 credits |
Total requirements met at ODU or elsewhere: 58 credits
Total credits for degree: 120+
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