Business (TSAP)
Offered at IU South Bend by Judd Leighton School of Business and Economics.
About
For students who want to pursue a broad, general business degree program, the Bachelor of Science in Business (B.S.B.) curriculum provides a vehicle for organizing their studies. The integrating focus is the responsibility for administering the multiple operations of a business firm in a rapidly changing environment. Emphasis is on the process involved in setting goals for corporate effort, coordinating and controlling multiple programs, and regulating inputs and outputs with varied environments.
Objectives at the undergraduate level are to provide a broad, liberal education as a base and to develop proficiency in understanding and solving interrelated business problems.
A B.S.B. degree requires a 120 hours of coursework, including:
- 42 credit hours of General Education Requirements: All IU South Bend undergraduate students are required to complete coursework in the humanities, social sciences, arts, and quantitative reasoning, which is intended to foster the strong problem-solving, communication, and analytic reasoning skills necessary for students to succeed in their college classwork and future careers.
- 48 credit hours of Business Administration Core Courses: All IU South Bend business undergraduate students are required to complete a curriculum of core courses in business that include coursework in accounting, finance, management, computer literacy, and economics to build a strong foundation of basic business competencies necessary to succeed in all business majors/concentrations.
- 30 credit hours of 300–400-level business major/concentration coursework.