Foundation Program

The Foundation Program provides an academic background in the various disciplines of business. All of the Business Administration graduate degree programs build upon this common background. Foundation Courses should be taken after the student has attained the required entry proficiencies (prerequisites) and should be completed prior to taking Program Requirement courses in any of the Master's programs.

A student who has a baccalaureate degree or a minor in Business Administration from an AACSB INTERNATIONAL accredited college may have completed all or most of the Foundation requirements.

However, the student twill be required to take certain Foundation courses if she/he:

1. Has not previously completed the comparable undergraduate course(s) for academic credit from an AACSB INTERNATIONAL accredited institution,
2. Has earned less than an overall 3.0 (B) grade point average (GPA) in the comparable undergraduate courses presented for waiver of required courses,
3. Has received a "C-" or lower grade in the comparable undergraduate course,
4. Cannot demonstrate currency in these courses (7 year limit), or
5. Has completed the bachelor's degree at a foreign institution

Courses taken at AACSB INTERNATIONAL accredited colleges of business will be accepted for transfer credit if the course is regarded as equivalent to the course for which credit is requested. Business Foundation courses and Core courses will not be accepted for transfer credit from programs that are not AACSB INTERNATIONAL accredited unless taken at institutions that have national or international reputations of high quality programs.

Petitions for equivalency for graduate, not-articulated courses must be submitted to the Graduate Programs Office. The CBA Academic Standards Committee will evaluate whether the institutions satisfy the requirement of "national or international reputations of high quality programs." Subsequently, Faculty in the appropriate department will make the final determination for course equivalency, e.g., content, method of instruction, method of evaluating, students and or course duration. To see if your university is AACSB accredited go to www.AACSB.edu and click on ACCREDITATION and ACCREDITED MEMBERS, BUSINESS ACCREDITED.