2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Minor in Business

The Minor in Business is designed to enhance a student's degree by introducing them to foundational areas of business.

The Minor in Business also creates a pathway for entry to the Master of Business Administration program at Ball State University. Students who complete this minor will be allowed to skip three graduate level (9 credit hours) Foundations classes of the MBA program. Instead, they will only be required to complete 10 classes (30 graduate credit hours) to receive their MBA degree.

Completion of this minor does not guarantee admission to the Master of Business Administration program at Ball State University. Full Admission requirements for the MBA program can be found here: https://www.bsu.edu/academics/collegesanddepartments/mba/masters-degree.

This minor is not open to majors in the Miller College of Business.

21 credits

Required Courses, 18 Credits

ACC 201Principles of Financial Accounting

3

ECON 201Elementary Microeconomics

3

FIN 300Principles of Finance

3

ISOM 351Operations Management

3

MGT 300Managing Behavior in Organizations

3

MKG 300Principles of Marketing

3

Statistics Course, 3 Credits

Students can fulfill the statistics requirement by completing one of the following: ECON 221, MATH 181, MATH 221, MATH 320, MATH 321, NUR 314, PSYS 241, OR SOC 382. Other statistics courses may be approved upon request.

ECON 221Business Statistics

3

MATH 181Elementary Probability and Statistics

3

MATH 221Probability and Statistics

3

MATH 320Probability

4

MATH 321Mathematical Statistics

4

NUR 314Nursing Statistics

3

PSYS 241Statistics

3

SOC 382Applied Social Statistics

3

Please review the University Core Curriculum for potential overlap with the UCC Math requirement.

Total Credit Hours: 21