Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration - Decision Science - Transfer Opportunity in Year 2

The Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration provides a thorough education in the theory and practice of business. This degree provides an understanding of multiple business disciplines, and upon completing the degree, graduates will have the competency to make sound business decisions through effective, evidence-based analysis, interpretation, problem-solving and reasoning.

The program emphasizes interpersonal skill-development, including the ability to write and orally communicate ideas and solutions in both business and non-business settings. Students also learn to recognize and apply concepts related to group motivation and conflict. Emphasis is also placed on the skills to use quantitative data, appropriate techniques and models to contextualize, address and analyze business problems and support business decisions. In a global sense, they also learn to understand legal, multicultural, political and ethical issues related to business.

Decision science combines information technology, statistics, business knowledge and the rational analysis of alternatives to provide data-driven insights that can improve organizational decision-making for challenging business problems. The Decision Sciences concentration prepares students for careers requiring the ability to create and evaluate business models; analyze and extract information from data using statistical techniques, such as regression, forecasting and data mining; efficiently work with large data sets; and design, build and work with databases that meet organizational data storage and retrieval needs.