BS and BSc (Hons) in Business Administration - Entrepreneurial Management

Brief Description

This Concentration deals with the challenges of leading organizations and working with people in a constantly changing economic environment. The Entrepreneurial Management program prepares you for a wide variety of positions in business or consulting. One of the most common career paths is to begin as a management trainee, the first step towards becoming a general manager or executive. Students can also prepare for a career in human resource management working in areas such as training and development recruiting and staffing. Finally, management courses will advance your own personal leadership and negotiation skills.

Degree Requirements

In order to receive the BS degree, the student must have fulfilled all the GER and major requirements and have completed at least 121 US credit hours with an overall G.P.A of 2.0 or better. All business students take a Research Methods course followed by a Business Strategy I and Business Strategy II (capstone, final project) course. According to NECHE Standards, students must complete at least one fourth of their undergraduate program, including advanced work in the major or concentration, at the institution awarding the degree. As a consequence, all candidates for an ACT degree must have been in residence at the College for at least during the last two semesters of full time instruction, assuming availability and equivalency of transferable courses.

Open University degree structure

The program in Business—Entrepreneurial Management is currently validated by Open University: under this scheme, 24 are out of the 40 courses required for a Bachelor’s degree are validated by Open University. Students must necessarily take the fourth year courses at ACT. Successful students will receive a Bachelor’s degree from Open University in addition to the ACT degree for a single course of studies by meeting the following common set of requirements (in addition to meeting General Education Requirements)—courses highlighted in bold are validated by Open University. For more information, check the student handbook. The OU Regulations can be found here.

Major Requirements

• Accounting 101 Financial Accounting (OU)
• Accounting 102 Managerial Accounting (OU)
• Business Administration 241 International Business Law (OU)
• Economics 101* Introductory Macroeconomics (OU)
• Economics 102 Introductory Microeconomics (OU)
• Finance 201 Financial Management (OU)
• Management 101 Introduction to Management (OU)
• Management 201 Organizational Behavior (OU)
• Management 312 Operations Management
• Management 322 Business Strategy I (OU)
• Management 323 Business Strategy II (OU)
• Marketing 101 Introduction to Marketing (OU)
• Marketing 301 Entrepreneurial and Corporate Marketing Strategy (OU)

Entrepreneurial Management Concentration Requirements

• Finance 202 Entrepreneurial and Corporate Finance (OU)
• Management 310 Human Resources Management for Growth (OU)
• Management 219 Entrepreneurial International Business (OU)
• Management 240 Creative Thinking
• Management 330 Entrepreneurship and Innovation (OU)
• Management 341 Business in Greece and the E.U. (OU)
• Marketing 330 Consumer Behavior (OU)

Other Degree Requirements

• Mathematics 101* Elements of Finite Mathematics
• Mathematics 115* Calculus (OU)
• Statistics 205* Introductory Statistics (OU)
• Computer Science 101* Introduction to Computing
• Computer Science 151* Quantitative Computing (OU)
• Computer Science 201 Business Computing (OU)
• Research 299 Business Research Methods (OU)

Business Electives

One Business Elective from among:

• Business 399: Global Competitiveness Practicum
• Econ 242: Applied Managerial Economics
• CS 250: E-Commerce
• Business 398: Undergraduate Internship in Business
• CS 306: Advanced Web Development (OU)
• CS 312: Database Management Systems (OU)
• CS 325: Distributed Applications (OU)
• CS 412: Object Oriented Programming (OU)
• CS 422: Advanced Database Systems (OU)
• CS 450: System Analysis and Design (OU)
• CS 499: Advanced Programming Tools
• Fin 210: International Money and Banking (OU)
• Fin 220: Investment and Portfolio Management (OU)
• Fin 232: International Finance (OU)
• Fin 400: Seminar in Finance
• Mkg 200: Principles of Public Relations (OU)
• Mkg 212: Sales Management (OU)
• Mkg 214: Advertising (OU)
• Mkg 311: Retailing
• Mkg 318: Global Marketing (OU)
• Mkg 320: Marketing Research (OU)
• Mkg 324: e-Marketing (OU)
• Mgt 218: International Business (OU)
• Mgt 244: Managerial Decision Making

One free elective

* Any of the Major courses above marked with an asterisk may also be taken to meet part of the GER.

Suggested Program of Studies

Year One

• Mathematics 101
• CS101 or CS105
• History 120
• English 101
• Politics 101
• Mathematics 115 (OU)
• Computer Science 151 (OU)
• Philosophy 101
• English 102
• Bio 101 or Ecology 110

Year Two (Level 4)

• Management 101 (OU)
• Accounting 101 (OU)
• Economics 101 (OU)
• English 204
• English 120, Art 120, or Music 120
• Accounting 102 (OU)
• Economics 102 (OU)
• Marketing 101 (OU)
• Philosophy 203
• Anthropology 101, Sociology101, or Psychology 101

Year Three - semester 1 (Level 5)

• Management 201 (OU)
• Finance 201 (OU)
• Business Administration 241 (OU)
• Computer Science 201 (OU)
• Free Elective

Year Three - semester 2 (Level 5)

• Research Methods 299 (OU)
• Statistics 205 (OU)
• Finance 202 (OU)
• Management 219 (OU)
• Business Elective

Year Four - semester 1 (Level 6)

• Management 322 (OU)
• Management 341 (OU)
• Management 312 (OU)
• Marketing 330 (OU)
• Business Elective

Year Four - semester 2 (Level 6)

• Management 323 (OU)
• Management 310 (OU)
• Management 330 (OU)
• Marketing 301 (OU)
• Business Elective