Specialty

The Bachelors Merit Specialty in Management provides high achieving students the opportunity to complete graduate courses, which will satisfy undergraduate content and credit hour requirements. Four graduate courses, in four important areas of management, enhance the undergraduate degree with higher-level learning.

Upon completion, students will have earned 12 graduate credits toward their bachelor program and apply those to complete the Masters of Management graduate degree. Qualified students will select this specialty in place of others offered. If the student chooses to do an additional undergraduate specialty, this will require additional credits to degree completion, which must be completed before awarding the bachelors. For programs without specialties, open electives (or additional credits) may be used for these courses.

Qualification process:

The following requirements must be met before a student can request this specialty be added to their curriculum (degree plan):

• Senior status, that is, 90 or more earned credits toward their bachelors degree
• Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher
• Completion all Foundations of Excellence and Foundations of program courses

Grading information:

Once a student is admitted to the Merit Specialty in Management, all remaining courses needed for degree completion must be taken in addition to the four graduate courses in this specialty. Please note the following grading clarifications:

• Students need a 3.0 or higher grade in each specialty course for it to apply toward the MM program.
• The grade of 3.0 or higher is for each course, not a CGPA for the specialty or degree program.
• If a passing grade lower than 3.0 is earned in any one graduate level course, the credit for the course may still apply toward completion of the bachelors degree, but the course cannot be used for credit in the MM program.

Note: Students continuing into the Masters of Management must complete a Graduate School Admission application and submit all requirements.