Business Administration, Associate of Business Administration | Arkansas Tech University Academic Catalog

Department website: https://www.atu.edu/business/schoolofbusiness

The Associate of Business Administration is designed to provide basic business knowledge and skills applicable to a wide variety of business, nonprofit, and governmental settings and gain foundational knowledge in business information systems, accounting, and economics.

Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International)

777 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 750
Tampa, FL 33602-5730 USA
(813) 769-6500

All programs within the School of Business, with the exception of the BS in Health Information Management, are accredited by the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). AACSB International is the premier accrediting agency for business schools, stressing academic excellence and a commitment to continuous improvement. Approximately one third of the business schools in the United States and several selected schools internationally have earned AACSB International accreditation.

Plan of Study Grid
Freshman
Fall		Hours
BUAD 1111	Introduction to Business	1
BUAD 2003	Business Information Systems	3
ENGL 1013	Composition I	3
MATH 1113	College Algebra	3
SCIL 1XXX	Science with Laboratory	4
Elective		1
	Hours	15
Spring
BDA 2003	Business Problem Solving	3
COMM 2003 or COMM 2173	Public Speaking or Business and Professional Speaking	3
ENGL 1023	Composition II	3
FAH 1XXX	Fine Arts and Humanities Courses	3
MATH 2223	Quantitative Business Analysis	3
	Hours	15
Sophomore
Fall
ACCT 2004	Accounting Principles I	4
ACCT 2000	Accounting Principles I Lab	0
BLAW 2033	Legal Environment of Business	3
ECON 2003	Principles of Macroeconomics	3
STAT 2163 or PSY 2053 or SOC 2053	Introduction to Statistical Methods or Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences or Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences	3
USHG 1XXX	U.S. History and Government	3
	Hours	16
Spring
ACCT 2013	Accounting Principles II	3
ECON 2013	Principles of Microeconomics	3
FAH 1XXX	Fine Arts and Humanities Courses	3
SCIL 1XXX	Science with Laboratory	4
Elective		1
	Hours	14
	Total Hours	60

Students who complete the program will be able to:

use technology to support business decisions.
demonstrate oral communication skills in a business context.
demonstrate written communication skills in a business context.
use an ethical decision-making framework in a business context.

For program assessment visit: https://www.atu.edu/assessment/program_assessment.php