Business Administration

Overview

The four-year Bachelor in Business Administration degree builds on the College’s two-year Associate of Applied Science degree in Business and Management and offers students the next higher level course of study that will help to support individual career advancement as well as meet employer needs for qualified personnel in mid-level administrative positions. The degree comprises 120 credit hours of course work with an emphasis in general management. In an effort to support working students, traditional as well as blended course formats are combined with distance learning platforms.

Admission Requirements

Students seeking admission to this instructional program fall into one of the following three groups: (1) first-time students; (2) students who have earned an associate degree from Iḷisaġvik or another accredited school; (3) and transferring students without an associate’s degree. The admission requirements for each group are as follows.

First-time students:

• Graduation from high school with a GPA of at least a 2.5 GPA or successful completion of the GED; and
• Letter of recommendation from an individual who is qualified to evaluate the student’s academic ability and potential success; and
• Completion of ACT or SAT with qualifying scores of 18 or 950 respectively

Students who have earned an associate degree from Iḷisaġvik or another accredited school:

• Completion of 60 college-level credits with a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or better

Transferring students without an associate degree from an accredited school:

• Less than 24 college-level credits
  • Graduation from high school with a GPA of at least 2.5 GPA or successful completion of the GED; and
  • Have college-level GPA of 2.0 or better; and
  • Completion of ACT or SAT with qualifying scores of 18 or 950 respectively
• 24 college-level credits or more

Completion of all college-level credits with a cumulativeGPA of 2.0 or better

Degree Outcomes

• Demonstrate how leadership and managerial functions, roles, and skills are applied to improve organizational strategy, operational effectiveness, employee and team performance, and stakeholder well-being.
• Show how managers adapt and innovate business practices so that an organization can thrive within changing economic, competitive, technological, social, and global environments.
• Understand how an organization’s structure and culture must be suited to its unique purpose and characteristics, and recognize how structure and culture can be used to enable strategy execution, improve performance, guide ethical behavior, and mitigate risk.
• Gain a working knowledge of the functions of a business, including general management, operational effectiveness, and financial accountability.