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Bachelor of Science in Business Administration: Elizabethtown College's Bachelor of Science in Business Administration offered through the Edward R. Murphy Center for Continuing Education and Distance Learning prepares adults for increasingly responsible leadership roles in the contemporary business community, which is characterized by its global reach, diversity, technological orientation, strategic planning, and complexity. Business community representatives constantly review the curriculum through which learners master business and organizational principles. Learners then apply these principles to specific cases and problems. Learners graduate with a set of skills and competencies that position them to compete and to succeed in the rapidly changing business world of the 21st century. These skills and competencies are blended with the College's quality liberal arts core to produce graduates who are prepared to exercise effective business leadership in a wide variety of contexts and organizations.
The Bachelor of Science in Business Administration is available at the Elizabethtown College main campus, the Lancaster Center and at the Dixon University Center.
The Bachelor of Science in Business Administration is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The Edward R. Murphy Center for Continuing Education and Distance Learning has not sought ACBSP accreditation.
Degree Requirements:
The bachelor's degree from Elizabethtown College requires 125 credit hours of academic work. Degree candidates must take at least 30 of their last 60 credits from Elizabethtown College. Credits from Elizabethtown must include at least 15 credits in the major. Nine of them must be 300-400 level courses in the business curriculum.
Corporate Strategy should be one of the last courses a learner takes. This course is the capstone course that integrates concepts, principles, practices, and applications from prior courses in order to analyze the interrelationships between business theory, problem-solving, and strategy formation.
Course Requirements
Major Courses (51 credits)
Financial Accounting
Managerial Accounting
Global Macroeconomics
Principles of Microeconomics
Managerial Communication
Principles of Marketing
Quantitative Techniques
Principles of Management
Business Finance
Business Law I
Corporate Strategy
Microcomputer Applications
Probability and Statistics (Mathematical Analysis- Core)
Four major elective courses
Core Program (27 - 28 credits)
Adult Learner Seminar
Power of Language (Writing and Language)
Creative Expression
Cultural Heritage Foreign Cultures & International Studies
Natural World (must include a lab component)
Social World
Values and Choice
Jr./Sr. Colloquium
General Electives (46-47 credits)