Loyola’s online Bachelor of Business Administration consists of 120 credit hours, which includes:

  • 48 hours of Business Core courses – including the 3-credit hour internship
  • 24 hours of Major courses (management electives)
  • 39 hours of Loyola Core courses
  • 9 hours of general elective (non-business) courses

You can also download the degree program course listing (DPCL) for the BBA in Management to view program requirements in a helpful worksheet format.

Business Core Courses (48 credits)

BA B100: Introduction to Business (3 crs.)

The course introduces the nature of business and its complexities in the context of the environment in which it operates. Subjects covered include ownership forms, organization, management, marketing, accounting, financial institutions, labor relations, basic word processing, email, spreadsheets, database, library resources, and small businesses.

BA B101: Business Communications (3 crs.)

This course serves to improve the student’s ability to create successful communication products – both written and oral. Topics include the process for successful communication, team communication business writing, report writing using style guidelines, online communication, and presentation skills.
Prerequisites: BA B100, ENGL T122

BA B415: Business Ethics (3 crs.)

This course examines the sources of societal pressure, business reaction, and the community’s expectation. The entire spectrum of corporate and government activities are discussed against the framework of the demands made on the firm and government by forces outside of the marketplace.
Prerequisites: ECON B101, MGT B245, PHIL W252, senior standing

BA B445: Business Policy (3 crs.)

This course provides students with the opportunity to integrate the skills acquired in prior coursework in analyzing the internal and external environments of organizations and has students learn how to formulate and implement strategies that will allow a firm to compete successfully within its environment.
Prerequisites: FIN B300, MGT B245 & B325, MKT B280, senior standing

MGT B245: Management & Organizational Behavior (3 crs.)

The course explores organizations as social units and the phenomena of individual and group behavior in organizations. Topics include the evolution of research in organizational principles and practices; personality, perception, and attitude formation; motivation; behavior; performance; structure; groups; planning and decision making; communication; power and conflict; leadership; stress; and international issues.
Prerequisites: BA B100 & B101, sophomore standing

MGT B250: Management Information Systems (3 crs.)

This course introduces significant uses of information technology in the business world. The student will study the steps necessary to design, implement, and operate a computer-based information system. More significantly, the student will study the complex issues involved in managing information technology, including the rapidly changing issues involving the telecommunications industry.
Prerequisites: BA B100, sophomore standing

MGT B325: Production & Operations Management (3 crs.)

This course deals with the decision making involved in selecting, designing, operating, and controlling activities of the operations system for continuous improvement. Topics include total quality management, forecasting, product design and process selection, capacity planning and location, facility layout, project planning and control, production planning, and just-in-time production and inventory management.
Prerequisites: DECS B205, junior standing

BUAN B205: Business Analytics (3 crs.)

This course is an introduction to the statistics used in business. Topics covered are sources and collection of business data, describing data, probability concepts, the use of confidence limits to estimate the mean or the proportion, the use of hypothesis tests, analysis of variance, and simple correlation and linear regression to discover how two variables are related to each other. The use of Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software is an integral part of this hands-on course.
Prerequisites: MATH A115, MGT B250, sophomore standing

MKT B100: Principles of Marketing (3 crs.)

This course assists students in understanding the role of marketing from a managerial perspective. It examines how product, pricing, promotion, and distribution decisions are made to satisfy the needs of specific target markets. The impacts of political-legal, competitive, socio-cultural, technological, and economic environments on marketing are also studied.
Prerequisites: ECON B100, sophomore standing

LGST B105: Legal Environment of Business (3 crs.)

This course is an introductory course covering the nature and operation of the U.S. legal system, constitutional law affecting commerce, employment discrimination law, and environmental protection law.
Prerequisites: BA B100, sophomore standing

ECON B200: Principles of Microeconomics (3 crs.)

This course is an introduction to economic analysis: efficiency and equity; production and exchange; costs, supply, and demand; markets, organizations, and government; competition, cooperation, and coercion; and international trade.
Prerequisite/Co-requisite: MATH A115

ECON B201: Principles of Macroeconomics (3 crs.)

This course is an introduction to various theories of inflation and unemployment; economic growth; money, banking, and financial intermediation; interest rates; business cycles; exchange rates, trade balances, and the balance of payments; deficits and the national debt; monetary, fiscal, exchange rate, income, and regulatory policies; and national income, product, and international payments accounting.
Prerequisite: ECON B100

ACCT B202: Principles of Financial Accounting (3 crs.)

This course is designed to introduce students to accounting in a way that demonstrates the importance of accounting to society and the relevance of accounting to their future careers. The objective of the course is for students to understand the essential financial components of businesses and to realize that accounting information is imperative in the decision-making process of investors, creditors, management, and others.
Prerequisites: BA B100, MATH A092 (if required), sophomore standing

ACCT B203: Principles of Managerial Accounting (3 crs.)

This course covers uses of accounting information for managerial decision making to aid planning and control activities of managers in business enterprises. Topics include methods for determining the costs of products and services, for assessing product and project profitability, and for budgeting and monitoring of costs and profits.
Prerequisites: ACCT B202, sophomore standing

FIN B280: Financial Management (3 crs.)

This course introduces the analytic techniques commonly used for the financial management of business firms. Topics include analysis of financial statements, financial forecasting, asset valuation, capital budgeting, working capital management, and financial structure.
Prerequisites: ACCT B202, DECS B205, ECON B101, junior standing

Major Courses (24 credits)

Online BBA students have the opportunity to specialize their degree by taking major courses in high-demand areas that align with their interests and career goals.

 

ACCT B305: Intermediate Accounting I (3 crs.)

This course is an introduction to accounting theory and principles underlying the financial statements. Emphasis is on financial statement presentation and disclosure for cash, receivables, inventories, and debt and equity investments in corporate securities. The statement of cash flow and revenue recognition issues are covered.
Prerequisites: ACCT B202*, sophomore standing

INTB-B370: Import/Export Operations (3 crs)

 

Management Major Courses

MGT B300: Entrepreneurship (3 crs.)

This course sheds light on the entrepreneurial process, from opportunity recognition to the funding and growth of a new venture. By engaging with case studies and each other, students learn how successful ventures have been created, as well as how to create a novel venture from scratch. Importantly, the central aim of this course is not the creation of a successful business per se, but to provide a comprehensive toolkit for prospective founders so that their decision to engage in entrepreneurship is as well-conceived and fruitful as possible. (Note: This course meets the MGT B430 “Entrepreneurial Process” requirement for MGT majors entering AY 2015-16 and prior).
Prerequisites: MGT B245, MKT B280, junior standing; Cross-listing: ENTR B300

MGT B310: Human Resource Management (3 crs.)

This course focuses on current issues in human resource management in both the private and public sectors. Topics include civil service systems, labor relations, manpower, planning, job analysis, recruitment, selection, training, appraisal, compensation, benefits, job evaluation, and personnel systems evaluation.
Prerequisites: MGT B245, junior standing

MGT B315: International Management (3 crs.)

This course explores the complexities arising from managing an international business with a framework for analyzing and successfully operating across nations. Students develop interpersonal and cross-cultural understanding and negotiation skills through in-class participatory exercises, case discussions, supplementary readings, and a group research project.
Prerequisites: MGT B245, junior standing; Cross-listing: INTB B315

MGT B375: Contemporary Managerial Decision-Making (3 crs.)

This course prepares students to be effective decision-makers by providing diagnostic and analytical tools and skills for informing effective decisions. A course project requires students to use (1) diagnostic skills to formulate problems, (2) decision-modeling skills to frame and manage results and risk, (3) data collection skills to obtain appropriate information, (4) data analysis skills to draw conclusions, (5) oral and written communication skills to explain why/how the problem can be solved, and (6) managerial skills such as planning, organizing, leading, and controlling to show how the solution can be deployed.
Prerequisites: MGT B325, junior standing; Cross-listings: DECS B375

Additionally, Management majors will take two management electives and two business electives to fulfill the requirements of the major.

General Elective Courses (6 credits)

The online BBA program requires 6 credits of general electives. These two courses must be taken in non-business areas, so there is a wide range of online elective courses to choose from in other departments.

Loyola Core Courses (39 credits)

The goal of the Loyola Core is to foster students’ competency in five key areas:

  • Critical Thinking
  • Effective Communication
  • Quantitative Reasoning
  • Information Literacy
  • Ethical Reasoning

To help students develop these competencies, the Loyola Core embraces an interdisciplinary approach to learning with an emphasis on the spiritual and intellectual, the moral and ethical, the natural and social scientific, the humanistic, and the artistic.

Foundation Courses

Foundation courses should be taken in your first three online sessions at Loyola and include:

  • First-Year Seminar
  • English – Critical Reading & Writing
  • Finite Math
  • Science Process – Investigating Nature

Knowledge & Values Courses

Students complete courses in the following 9 categories:

  • Creative Arts & Cultures
  • History Sequence (2 courses for 6 total credit hours)
  • Natural Science in Context
  • Philosophy I: Introduction to the Philosophy of Reasoning
  • Philosophy II: Philosophy of Knowledge & Morality
  • Religious Studies I: Christian Traditions
  • Religious Studies II: World Religions
  • Social Science
  • Writing About Literature

Major Substitution: One of the courses in the Loyola Core will be satisfied in each undergraduate major. This is usually the introductory course for each major. The result is the total hours to complete the Loyola Core are reduced to between 39 and 41 credit hours (depending on lab requirements associated with Math and Science courses).

Business Internship (3 credits)

Students can do a special project with their supervisor or someone in their company to fulfill the BBA internship requirement. Projects will be approved on a case-by-case basis by the Portfolio Office.

Business Portfolio Program

This is a comprehensive professional career development program required of all Loyola College of Business students. The Portfolio Program consists of 4 non-credit sequential courses that engage students in the development of professional skills designed to help students successfully transition from college to careers. Course concepts include career exploration, building a personal brand, resume and cover letter writing, interviewing, networking, internship preparation and search, and job search. Each session will last 8 weeks. Students must enroll one time for each 30 credit hours accrued. A $150 fee will be assessed for each of the courses.