Marketing - B.B.A. Program Requirements Download to print

Attribute Legend: DD Diversity-Domestic; DG Diversity-Global; ELR Experiential Learning; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity, writing-intensive and the experiential learning requirements.

1. US 10097 is not required of transfer students with 25 credits (excluding College Credit Plus and dual-enrollment) or students age 21+ at time of admission.
2. Students must take MKTG 35030 as the first course in the major and earn a minimum C grade to continue in the major. MKTG 35030 may be taken concurrently with MKTG 35035 or 35050. Should students earn below a minimum C grade in MKTG 35030, they are required to repeat the course, with a maximum of three repeats.
3. Students who change their major from managerial marketing to marketing, may use MMTG 35011 in place of MKTG 35030, MMTG 35021 in place of MKTG 35050 and MMTG 35023 in place of MKTG 35035.
4. A minimum C (2.000) grade must be earned in MKTG 45084 to fulfill the writing-intensive requirement.
5. A student changing to the College of Business Administration or transferring may be waived out of BUS 10123 Exploring Business if:
   1. 30 or more hours have been earned and any two classes (from ACCT 23020, ACCT 23021, FIN 26074, MIS 24163, MKTG 25010 or MIS 24053) have successfully been completed.
   2. 60 or more hours have been earned and the student has successfully completed one course from (ACCT 23020, ACCT 23021, FIN 26074, MIS 24163, MKTG 25010 or MIS 24053)
   3. At the discretion of the Dean's Office, the student has sufficient breadth and depth of knowledge in a business field (as demonstrated by a CLEP exam or Credit by Exam) but does not meet the requirements listed above.
6. BUS 30061 and ENG 30061 should be taken concurrently. Students who have transferred ENG 30063 from another institution may use it as a substitute for ENG 30061.
7. If a student has taken MATH 10041 Elementary Probability and Statistics they may use it in place of MIS 24056.
8. Minimum C grade in ENG 21011 or HONR 20197.
9. Students may take or use any course at any level as long as the minimum 39-hour requirement for upper-division courses is satisfied for graduation with a B.B.A. Exceptions: Maximum 4 credit hours of physical education activity (PEB) courses and maximum 4 credit hours for courses in applied music and music ensembles (MUS courses with a second digit of 5, 6 or 7) combined may be counted toward the 120-total hour or 39-upper-division-hour graduation requirement. General elective courses may be selected from any area and at any level provided students do not go over the PEB, applied music and ensemble music restriction and they satisfy the 39 hour upper-division requirements. A minor (business or non-business) is encouraged. There is no limit on other music coursework. Any other exceptions must be approved by the assistant dean.

Progression in the major: Minimum 2.500 cumulative GPA, minimum C (2.000) grade in COMM 15000, ENG 21011, MATH 11010 and MKTG 25010.

Program Notes:

• Only three of marketing major (3/45000) courses may be repeated and counted toward the marketing major. All attempts count in the computation of the major and cumulative GPA.
• To progress into the major student must maintain a minimum 2.50 GPA
• Entrepreneurship majors who are also majoring in either Marketing or Managerial Marketing, and who have taken Sales in the Entrepreneurial Venture (ENTR 37045), are not required to take Personal Selling (MKTG 45046) for the Marketing major or Sales and Sales Management (MMTG 45030) for the Managerial Marketing major or minor. However, a double major in Entrepreneurship and Marketing or Managerial Marketing cannot waive ENTR 37045 by taking either MKTG 45046 or MMTG 45030.