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SCPS College Catalog 2018-2019 
    
SCPS College Catalog 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Business Administration (B.S.)


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Elizabethtown College’s Bachelor of Science in Business Administration offered through the School of Continuing and Professional Studies 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 students master business and organizational principles. Students then apply these principles to specific cases and problems. Students 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 accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The School of Continuing and Professional Studies 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, with a minimum of six as major electives.

Corporate Strategy should be one of the last courses a student 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. 

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