Curriculum

The undergraduate curriculum includes a two-year Pre- Business curriculum required of all students and a two- year Major curriculum selected by the student. These two curricula provide a balanced course of study for all students, with approximately one-half of the hours in business courses and one-half in courses offered outside the college. The courses required have been selected so that all students will have access to the “common body of knowledge” as designated by the College’s accrediting agency, the ACBSP.

The Pre-Business curriculum, followed by all business students in their freshman and sophomore years, provides a sound foundation of work in the arts and sciences,

including courses in mathematics, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. This lower division curriculum also includes some of the introductory business courses. Students must satisfactorily complete specific portions of the pre-business curriculum prior to moving on to the major curriculum.

The Major curriculum allows each student to concentrate or major in an area of interest during the junior and senior years. Currently, the college offers majors in accounting, computer information systems (STEM major), finance, management, and marketing.

Through these curricula, the college seeks to develop in its students the communication, analytical, and decision- making skills required of managers who lead organizations.

Microsoft Alliance

The College of Business Administration is a member of the Microsoft program that provides COBA’s faculty and students with the latest developer tools, servers, and platforms from Microsoft at no cost. The program helps COBA to keep the computer labs, faculty, and students on the leading edge of technology. All students enrolled in COBA can get licenses to load all Microsoft software on their personal computers free of cost. The distribution of the software and license are done electronically using Microsoft e-academy License Management Systems (ELMS). The Microsoft Office suite is provided to all students by the Office of Technology Services.

Advisement

Academic Advisors are a student’s primary resource regarding academic support services, academic issues, campus resources and other opportunities for student success. Academic Advisors also monitor and maintain accurate records of student’s academic progress. All students receive ongoing academic support and services empowering them to accomplish their personal, educational and career goals. First year students are required to meet with their Academic Advisor at the Academic Advisor Center monthly and prior to Registration each semester for guidance in selecting courses that comply with their specific program/major requirements.

Upon transfer of the student to the College of Business Administration, all students will be assigned a faculty adviser. The student is expected to work with the faculty advisor on issues relating to enrollment, graduation, career, and professional development.

SAP University Alliance

The College of Business Administration is one of the early members of the SAP University Alliance program. This alliance has allowed the college to gain access to the SAP family of solutions, including SAP ERP and SAP HANA. Through hands-on experience with SAP solutions, COBA students gain insight into how technology can empower a business to optimize key processes such as accounting and controlling, human capital management, project planning, plant and materials management, and sales and

distribution.

Student Outcome Assessment Program- Major Field Test in Business

The College of Business Administration requires every student to take the online version of the Educational Testing Service’s (ETS) Major Field Test (MFT) in Business in MGT 462 Business Policies (the Capstone course) as part of the graduation requirement.

The Major Field Test in Business is an innovative undergraduate outcomes assessment that measures basic student learning in the field of business. The exam contains 120 multiple-choice items designed to measure a student’s subject knowledge in nine assessment areas by applying facts, concepts, theories, and analytical methods. The questions represent a wide range of difficulty and cover depth and breadth in assessing students’ achievement levels.

MFT results enable the College of Business Administration to refine and improve curriculum development, gauge the progress of individual students compared to others in the program and compare total scores with similar programs at schools throughout the country.

Course Repetition

A student must earn a “C” or better in all courses. If a student earns a grade of “D” or “F” in a course, the course must be repeated the next semester of enrollment.

Collegial Computing Center

The Collegial Computing Center is equipped with computer facilities to meet the needs of our learners. Five computer labs are in the College of Business Administration. The labs are open until midnight, seven days a week. The computers in COBA are networked over a fast Ethernet and have Internet access. The computers also interface with the university’s mainframe computer.

The college has state-of-the-art PCs, laser printers and scanners in the computer labs. The PCs have Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, Visual Studio, Project, Visio, SPSS and other software for student use.

All classrooms in the College of Business Administration have been equipped with multimedia facilities that include an overhead data projector. All users of the computer labs are required to adhere to the letter on the security process that is posted in the labs.