Bachelor of Business Administration in General Business

Bachelor of Business Administration in General Business Online

This online degree program is designed to give you a thorough business background to explore a broad range of career paths in accounting, real estate, insurance, human resource management, marketing and finance while also allowing you the opportunity to specialize in one of several areas.

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Start Date:

12/29/20
1/19/21
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Program Overview

$273**
Per Credit Hour
as few as 48 months
Program Duration
120*
Credit Hours

The Bachelor of Business Administration in General Business online degree program is designed to help you develop an understanding of the roles of ethics and public policy in business. Our school of business is among the elite AACSB-accredited universities—a distinction earned by only five percent of the world’s business schools.

You will gain a broad range of computer and data analysis skills including highly sought-after SAP training. You will graduate with a solid understanding of economics, finance, marketing and management principles, along with critical communication skills that will set you apart from other business majors in the job market.

Ranked among The Princeton Review’s 300 Best Business Schools, the Lamar University College of Business offers you access to a powerful business school alumni network and a business education backed by AACSB International accreditation – the gold standard of quality in business education worldwide.

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This degree program will help you develop:

  • An understanding of the roles of ethics and public policy in business
  • A broad range of computer and data analysis skills including highly sought-after SAP training
  • A solid understanding of economics, finance, marketing and management principles
  • Critical communication skills that will set you apart from other business majors in the job market

This degree program will help you develop:

  • An understanding of the roles of ethics and public policy in business
  • A broad range of computer and data analysis skills including highly sought-after SAP training
  • A solid understanding of economics, finance, marketing and management principles
  • Critical communication skills that will set you apart from other business majors in the job market
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Tuition

The following is the tuition breakdown for students pursuing Bachelor of Business Administration in General Business. Our tuition is affordable, and can be paid by the course.

$273 Per Credit Hour. Price includes distance learning fee.

Tuition and fees are subject to change without notice due to action by the Board of Regents or the Texas State Legislature.

Total program cost depends upon transfer hours and program advisement relevant to program requirements. For more information, contact a Lamar University enrollment specialist .

Financial Aid

Ready to get started on your degree program online but need help finding ways to fund your education? We can help you discover student financing sources that include grants, loans and other payment options. Learn more about financial aid here.

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Calendar

Our Bachelor of Business Administration in General Business online program features multiple start dates to accommodate your busy schedule. Find the start date that works best for you and apply before the application deadline associated with it.

Upcoming Start Dates:

Apply by:12/29/20
Start Class:1/19/21
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8 week coursesProgram Start DateApplication DeadlineDocument DeadlinePayment DueLast Class Day
Fall 210/13/202009/22/202009/29/202010/06/202012/07/2020
Spring I01/19/202112/29/202001/05/202101/11/202105/11/2021
Spring II03/23/202103/02/202103/09/202103/16/202105/11/2021

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Admissions

The Bachelor of Business Administration in General Business online program has specific requirements that applicants must meet to enroll. Please read the admission guidelines to ensure you qualify.

Online Application

Submit your application and one-time $25 application fee online.

Official Transcripts

Submit transcripts from all colleges/universities you have attended.

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University Admission Requirements

All applicants must complete an application packet, consisting of:

  • Complete online application and pay a one-time application fee of $25.
  • Official transcripts from all schools (high school and college) attended. Official transcripts are sent from a regionally or nationally accredited institution.
  • Verify specific requirements associated with chosen degree program.

High school graduates who have not attended college before are considered entering freshmen – even if they received college credit while in high school through dual credit, AP or IB programs. Transfer students with fewer than 18 hours of college credit also must meet admission requirements for entering freshmen.

Incoming freshmen must do three things to qualify for unconditional admission to Lamar University:

  • Receive a diploma from an accredited high school
  • Complete at least 14 high school credits in college preparatory courses: 4 credits in English, 3 credits in mathematics, 2 credits in laboratory sciences, 2.5 credits in social sciences (U.S. history, U.S. government, and world history or world geography) and 2.5 credits in college preparatory electives (preferably including 2 credits of foreign language)
  • Graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class or achieve a minimum composite score on the SAT or ACT

Students transferring from other Lamar University programs into a College of Business program must have a minimum overall 2.0 grade point average (GPA) and, if applicable, a minimum 2.0 GPA in business courses.

Students transferring from other colleges or universities into a College of Business program must:

  • Have an official copy of all college and/or university transcripts on file by application deadline.
  • Be eligible to re-enter all colleges and/or universities previously attended.
  • Have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.0 on a 4.0 scale for all work attempted.
  • Students who transfer fewer than 18 hours must also submit and meet the entrance credentials and requirements of a first-time college student

Send all required documents to:

Lamar University Online Admissions
PO Box 10017
Beaumont, TX 77710

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Submit electronically to [email protected]

Pre-MBA

The Pre-MBA program allows students to take up to 9 hours of graduate level coursework to apply toward their MBA before taking the GMAT. In order to qualify for Pre-MBA admission, students must have a minimum 2.75 cumulative GPA. The GPA can be calculated using the applicant's undergraduate cumulative or last 60 hours. After completing your 9 hours you must submit an acceptable GMAT score to fully enroll in the MBA program.

Appeals Process

Students not meeting the standard admission score of 428 must take the GRE, submit their scores and appeal to be registered beyond the third course of a master’s degree program. Appeals may not be processed without the results of a GRE attempt. Upon reporting the first GRE and appealing unsuccessfully, students may retake the GRE and submit their scores with a second appeal. A second appeal decision is final. Students whose GPAs fall below 2.5 in the institutional bachelor's will not be considered for admission on any basis, with or without the GRE.

For more information on the GRE go to www.ets.org/gre.

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Courses

Students registering for business courses in the Bachelor of Business Administration online degree program must meet all course prerequisites, including the implicit prerequisite indicated by the course level. The chair of the department offering the course must approve any exceptions. To enroll in 3000 and 4000 level courses, you must have completed 60 hours of coursework.

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Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Concepts of financial accounting. Emphasis is on the conceptual framework of accounting and the preparation and uses of financial statements. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing strongly recommended.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed for non-accounting majors. Uses of accounting information in managerial planning, decision making, and control. Includes study of cost behavior, cost-volume-profit analyses and budgeting.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Emphasis on practical applications of business writing and speaking scenarios. Course covers how to write memos, letters, resumes, analytical reports, and how to give a professional oral presentation.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduction to the quantitative methods of analysis as applied to business problems. Topics of study include collection of data, statistical description, probability theory, probability distribution, sampling theory, estimation, and introduction to test of hypothesis.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Emphasis on use of statistics in business decision-making. Topics of study include hypothesis testing, inferences between two populations, analysis of variance, chi-squared and other non-parametric tests, simple-multiple linear regression/correlation analysis, classical time series analysis, and index numbers.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Survey course emphasizing interaction of business with its external and internal environments. Introduction to public policy process and issues with focus on ethical and moral considerations.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A survey of the legal environment and its impact upon business. Nature and sources of law, administrative and enforcement agencies, and governmental regulations. Students become aware of the legal framework of common business transactions.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Emphasizes monetary theory; national income analysis; fluctuation and growth; public finance; international trade; and current economic problems.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduction to economic principles; allocation of resources; determination of output and prices; distribution; and managerial economics.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A descriptive-analytical approach to the dynamic forces that influence the aggregate level of economic activity. Income and employment determinants; levels of income and employment, stabilization theory; investment and income relationship; monetary and fiscal policies.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An introductory survey of the principal issues, decision areas and analytical procedures relevant to the financial management of private business firms including capital budgeting, cost of capital, short and long-term financing, dividend policy and valuation.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Includes the study of organization behavior concepts such as leadership, motivation, individual behavior, group behavior and communication. Their use in U.S. and multinational organizations in management practice is examined in the context of today’s legal, social, and ethical environment.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A survey of the production function and the analytical tools used to solve problems associated with the development and operation of a production system. Analytical tools include: linear programming, critical path scheduling, waiting line, statistical quality control and forecasting.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The capstone course for the undergraduate business program. This course has been developed to help you understand the task of the strategic management process in a digital global environment. The course assumes that a company’s success depends on you to adapt to rapidly changing markets, globalization, shifting governmental policies and new technologies. The emphasis of this course will be on sharpening analytical decision-making and communication skills. The case study method and /or a global simulation will be used to acquaint the student with probable, authentic strategic situations in the economy.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Computers are an integral part of all business activities and careers. This course is designed to introduce potential business majors to the understanding of the roles of computers in business information systems and to learn the basic skills of business software which are essential to support business activities. Students will obtain valuable information, technology knowledge and skills needed in all areas of business. Students will be introduced to the history of computing; components of a personal computer; word processing application software, spreadsheets, databases, presentation graphics, email Internet tools. In addition, students will be introduced to basic business transactions using SAP enterprise resource planning software.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course gives an overview of why information systems are so important today and how they are transforming organizations and management. The students will understand the relationship between the various types of information systems. They will learn to analyze the relationship between information systems and organizations. Also, students will learn how a database management system organizes information. Students would compare the various types of telecommunications networks and network services and become knowledgeable about new business applications, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Knowledge Management (KM). The course also covers how the internet can be used for electronic commerce and for electronic business, how the internet is becoming the foundation for new business models, new business processes, and new ways of distributing knowledge. The students will develop proficiency in using application tools such as spreadsheet and database for development of Information Systems. In addition, the students are introduced to basic business transactions using SAP- a widely used Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software among the Fortune 500 companies.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A description and analysis of business activities designed to plan price, promote and distribute products and services to customers. Topics studies include: the marketing environment, consumer buying habits and motive, types of middlemen, marketing institutions and channels, governmental regulations, advertising and current marketing practices.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Cost accounting with a managerial emphasis: job order and process cost; standard cost and variance analysis; budgetary control; relevant costing for decision making, capital budgeting.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Analytical techniques used in financial decision making, including ratio analysis, funds analysis, capital structure, dividend policy, financial forecasting and valuation models.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A behavioral approach to the management of the human resource in business enterprise. The fundamentals of human relations and organizational behavior will be used to structure an understanding of the managerial problems of recruitment, selection, training, promotion, and termination of personnel. Supervision of the work force will be considered as an examination of theories of motivation, communication, and leadership.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A survey course emphasizing the need for improved productivity in profit and non-profit organizations. The course will focus on the historical and current aspects of productivity as well as problems and methods of measuring planning and implementing productivity programs.
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Designed to give student overview of the new venture creation process. Includes topics of entrepreneurial psychology opportunities in the marketplace, gathering resources, and the "Business Plan".
Duration: 8 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The planning and execution of various marketing activities from the managerial viewpoint are presented, via: determining the basic product or service market analysis, price policies, product promotion, management of the sales force and sales analysis and physical distribution with logistics system concept.

*120 credit hours: 42 core curriculum, 27 lower level electives, 45 advanced electives.

**Price includes distance learning fee.

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