Naveen Jindal School of Management
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Degree Requirements (120 hours)
I. Core Curriculum Requirements1: 42 hours
Communication (6 hours)
Social and Behavioral Sciences (15 hours)
Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning (6 hours)
- 6 hours Calculus (MATH 1325 and 1326)
Science (9 hours including at least one course with a substantial laboratory component)
II. Major Requirements: 52-58 hours
Major Preparatory Courses (18 hours)
- ACCT 23012 Introductory Financial Accounting
- ACCT 23022 Introductory Management Accounting
- BLAW 23012 Business and Public Law
- ECON 23012 Principles of Macroeconomics3
- ECON 23022 Principles of Microeconomics
- MATH 13252 Applied Calculus I3, 4
- MATH 13262 Applied Calculus II3, 4
- OPRE 33332 Quantitative Business Analysis
- or MATH 23332 Matrices, Vectors, and Their Application5
- STAT 3360 Probability and Statistics for Management and Economics
- or OPRE 3360 Managerial Decision Making under Uncertainty
Major Core Courses (25 hours)
- BA 3100 Professional Development
- BCOM 3311 Business Communications3
- BCOM 4350 Advanced Business Communications
- FIN 3320 Business Finance
- MIS 3300 Introduction to Management Information Systems
- OPRE 3310 Operations Management
- OBHR 3310 Organizational Behavior
- MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing
- BPS 4305 Strategic Management
- IMS 3310 International Business
Major Related Courses (9-15 hours)
General Business (15 hours)
Breadth Core Courses for students not choosing a concentration. Select from the following with at least 1 course from 3 of the 6 groups:
- Group 1: Management - OBHR prefix
- Group 2: Marketing - MKT prefix
- Group 3: Finance and Accounting - ACCT or FIN prefix
- Group 4: Information Systems - MIS prefix
- Group 5: Business Environment - BPS, BLAW, HMGT, or IMS prefixes
- Group 6: Operations Management - OPRE prefix
For Students Choosing a Concentration
Core Courses for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Concentration: (9 hours)
Core Courses for the Operations Management Concentration: (9 hours)
Core Courses for the Organizational Behavior Concentration: (12 hours)
Core Courses for the Real Estate Concentration: (12 hours)
Core Courses for the Healthcare Management Concentration (9 hours)
Guided Electives for Concentrations:
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Concentration: (12 hours)
Twelve hours to be selected from:
Operations Management Concentration: (12 hours)
Three hours to be selected from:
Nine hours to be selected from:
- ACCT 3341 Cost Management Systems
- IMS 4310 Export Market Development
- BA 4199 Seniors Honors in Business Administration
- BA 4299 Thesis Research Methods and Writing Seminar
- MIS 4300 Database Fundamentals
- OBHR 4352 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
- MKT 3330 Personal Sales and Sales Management
- MIS 4340 Enterprise Resource Planning
- OPRE 3330 Introduction to Project Management
Organizational Behavior Concentration: (9 hours)
Nine hours to be selected from
The Human Resources Track:
OR
The Leadership Track:
Healthcare Management Concentration: (12 hours)
Twelve hours to be selected from:
Real Estate Concentration: (12 hours)
Twelve hours to be selected from:
III. Elective Requirements: 20-26 hours
Advanced Electives (6 hours)
All students are required to take at least six hours of Advanced Electives outside their major field of study. These must be either upper-division classes or lower-division classes that have prerequisites.
Free Electives (14-20 hours)
Both lower- and upper-division courses may count as electives but students must complete at least 51 hours of upper-division credit to qualify for graduation. JSOM freshman are required to take BA 1100 Business Basics.
- Curriculum Requirements can be fulfilled by other approved courses from accredited institutions of higher education. The courses listed in parentheses are recommended as the most efficient way to satisfy both Core Curriculum and Major Requirements at UT Dallas.
- Indicates a prerequisite class to be completed before enrolling for upper-division classes.
- A required Major course that also fulfills a Core Curriculum requirement. Hours are counted in Core Curriculum.
- These hours are counted under Mathematics Core above; students may substitute MATH 2413 and MATH 2414 or MATH 2417 and MATH 2419.
- Students may substitute MATH 2418 or CS 2305.
