Program’s Academic Plan

The Bachelor of Business Administration program combines business and arts and sciences in an assiduous learning ecosystem that aims at nurturing deep analytical, creative, and technical skills counterbalanced by an emphasis on soft skills and ethical reasoning. The Bachelor of Business Administration program seeks to prepare students to excel within a variety of organizations (multinational, regional, small and medium, or family business organizations) and to differentiate themselves through a combination of strong professional skills, innovative leadership orientation and sensitivity to ethical conduct and social responsibility.

Program Objectives

The Bachelor of Business Administration program combines business and arts and sciences in an assiduous learning ecosystem that aims at nurturing deep analytical, creative, and technical skills counterbalanced by an emphasis on soft skills and ethical reasoning. The Bachelor of Business Administration program seeks to prepare students to excel within a variety of organizations (multinational, regional, small and medium, or family business organizations) and to differentiate themselves through a combination of strong professional skills, innovative leadership orientation and sensitivity to ethical conduct and social responsibility.

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree are expected to:

Build an array of professional and problem solving skills and demonstrate technical business competence across core functional business areas that allow them to address organizational issues and make sound business decisions.
Demonstrate a mastery of business, management and leadership knowledge and put these in practice through initiative and balanced judgment in professional practice and decision-making.
Demonstrate competencies in effective communication, critical thinking, problem solving, qualitative and quantitative analysis, knowledge-based decision making, and ethical behavior.
Demonstrate the fundamental skills of creating and managing innovation, new business development, and high-growth potential ventures.
Demonstrate strong oral, relational and written communication skills that allow them to present and defend a clear, coherent and independent business proposition.
Demonstrate responsibility and accountability in various aspects of decision making and professional practice and in their patterns of collaboration and interaction with internal and external stakeholders.
Demonstrate sensitivity to diversity of organizational needs, values, behavioral norms, social patterns and stay attuned to various aspects of economic and social development.

Philosophy

The BBA program is for fresh University entrants interested in leading careers in the business world. The curriculum emphasizes both analytical and soft skill areas such as leadership, decision-making and ethical reasoning.

Criteria for Admission to the Business Administration Program

Students admitted into the program are either sophomore to the BBA program through direct admission or through transfer from other faculties at the University.

Direct Admission

Direct admission applies to those students who are directly admitted from secondary school into the sophomore class at the Faculty of Business Administration. Students are advised to review the Admissions section of this catalogue for complete and detailed information regarding admission to the University. All direct admissions are decided by the Admissions Office.

Transfer into the Faculty of Business Administration

students from other faculties at the University may apply for a transfer to the Faculty of Business Administration and work toward a BBA degree after meeting the requirements of the admission office. Students applying for transfer must not be on probation.

Final admission decisions into the Faculty of Business Administration depend on the quality of the eligible applicant pool and the number of available places for the term in question.

Academic Advisors

Every student is assigned to an academic advisor. The advisor plays the role of the student’s mentor and directs the student in choosing his/her courses and in any academic matter. The adviser communicates and embodies the culture of the institution and guides the students through the curriculum. In addition, the adviser helps the students in assessing career opportunities or future graduate studies opportunities.

Course Load

Students may also petition to register for a higher number of credits. Full-time students must register for a minimum of 12 credit hours per semester. Students may, under special conditions, register for less than 12 credits provided they get the approval of the Faculty Academic and Curriculum Committee. Students can register normally for up to 18 credits per semester. The approval will depend on their previous academic performance (normally, second and third year students with an average of at least 80 or an average of at least 80 in the last two semesters are given such permission).

Failing and Repeating Courses

Student are advised to refer to the University Academic Information Section in the University Catalogue.

Incomplete Grade

Student are advised to refer to the University Academic Information Section in the University Catalogue.

Program Outline

The undergraduate program, leading to a BBA degree, requires students to complete 96 credit hours for those joining the University as sophomores.

Of the total 96 required credits:

o 9 credits General Education Mandatory Courses

o 15 credits General Education Elective courses (Non-Business courses). those include courses in History, Philosophy, Arts, Sociology, Political Science or Psychology.

o 39 credits are core business courses and include the following courses:

ACCO 202 Financial Accounting I
ACCO 301 Financial Accounting II
ACCO 403 Managerial Accounting
BUSS 202 Business Plan Workshop
BUSS 203 Design Thinking
BUSS 303 Business Law
BUSS 208 Business Statistics
BUSS 307 Corporate Social Responsibility
BUSS 310 Internship
BUSS 311 Business Research Methods
ECON 205 Micro-Economics
ECON 206 Macro-Economics
FINA 302 Business Finance
MATH 207 Business Math
MGMT 203 Principles of Management
MGMT 301 Employability Skills
MGMT 304 Legal Environment of Business
MGMT 309 Entrepreneurship
MKTG 204 Principles of Marketing

o 15 credits are Business elective courses which could be completed in one of the following concentration areas:

Accounting
Finance
Management and Entrepreneurship
Marketing and Retail

Students have the option to register for a minor degree in other concentration. they should complete 5 courses (15 credits) in the same concentration to be granted a minor degree.

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