Our Stakeholders: Students, businesses, not-for-profit organizations, local and regional governments, faculty and staff, the public, the university, the professions.
Vision: The Coles College of Business will provide high quality, applied business and managerial education in a collegial, ethical, and nurturing intellectual climate.
Mission: Our Mission is the recognition, creation and dissemination of valuable applied business and managerial knowledge to all our present and prospective stakeholders.
Distinctive Compentencies: Collaboration, continuous learning, creativity, goal stretching, iconoclasm, innovation, niche provider, resource leveraging, responsiveness, technological sophistication.
Responsibilities:
To Students: Impart relevant knowledge, while engendering inquiry and cultivating intellectual curiosity. Facilitate learning about relevant tools and techniques through collaborative teamwork, innovative pedagogy, and sophisticated technology. Provide cutting-edge knowledge of organizations, their processes, and their interactions in an international marketplace. Offer an array of appropriate and useful courses at locations and times which accommodate a diverse student body.
To Faculty and Staff: Attract, select and retain talented faculty and staff. Treat individuals with dignity, fairness, and respect. Provide opportunities for learning, self-development, training and career progression. Foster a climate supportive of diversity, intellectual creativity, inquiry and the quest for knowledge.
To Businesses and Other Organizations: Anticipate and supply the needs of these organizations for knowledge, as well as for informed, skilled, and well-trained workforces capable of providing the leadership to face the challenges of a technology-driven, global economy.
To Governments and the Public: Utilize societal resources efficiently and effectively in the pursuit of our goals.
To the University: Support the University's mission and commitment to providing a quality education within an open, supportive, multi-cultural and nondiscriminatory teaching and learning environment.
To the Professions: Uphold professional standards and norms of conduct, advance the respective professional disciplines and exceed the expectations of the affiliating academies.
The seven programs of study offered by the Coles College of Business, leading to a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, are Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, Professional Sales and Operations & Purchasing. These programs include foundation courses in the humanities, natural and behavioral sciences, and mathematics before advanced courses in the major-field areas are undertaken. The Coles College offers upper division courses in the business disciplines of accounting, economics, finance, management and marketing, in addition to specialized courses in the areas of business law, business information systems, entrepreneurship and family business, insurance, international business, operations management, quality, real estate, sales and strategy.
Sophomore GPA Requirement
Before a business major can enroll in
any upper-division business courses (3000-4000), she or
he must earn an adjusted GPA of 2.70 or greater for the following
seven courses:
MATH 1106 Elementary Calculus with Applications
(or MATH 1190 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus I)
ACCT 2100 Introduction to Financial Accounting
ACCT 2200 Introduction to Managerial Accounting
ECON 2100 Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 2200 Principles of Macroeconomics
BISM 2100 Business Information Systems and Communications
BLAW 2200 Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
Regardless of whether the courses are taken at Kennesaw State University or at another acceptable accredited institution, the grades earned will be used to check this GPA requirement. A course may be repeated if necessary.
Other Requirements
To fulfill the requirements for a baccalaureate degree in these programs, students must earn a minimum of 51 hours of credit in upper division business courses. At least 33 hours of business courses must be taken in residence to earn a degree from Kennesaw State University. At least 12 hours of the major field requirements and major field electives must be taken at Kennesaw State University.
Credit for courses taken at other accredited
colleges and universities will be given only if those courses
were taken at the same or higher level than the comparable courses
offered at Kennesaw State University. If the courses are taken
at a lower level than offered by Kennesaw State University, students
may earn credit for a course by passing an Advanced Standing Examination.
Business majors must earn a grade of "C" or better in
all courses carrying a prefix title of their major. Students must
also earn a C or better in any course to be used as a major field
requirement or a major field elective.
All business majors must take a calculus course, which is part of the Coles College Sophomore GPA requirement and also a prerequisite to several business courses. Most students will take the MATH 1101 and 1106 sequence. Students with stronger math aptitudes or backgrounds, or students considering graduate school should take MATH 1190. All students must take ECON 3100 (Business Statistics) and not MATH 1107.
Timeliness of Degree Completion
Business majors must successfully complete the BBA degree requirements within no more than six calendar years after first completing the Sophomore GPA Requirement.
Click on the following links to see a complete listing of degree requirements:
Major in Accounting
Major in Economics
Major in Finance
Major in Management
Major in Marketing
Major in Operations
and Purchasing
Major in Professional
Sales