Admission Requirements
Students interested in pursuing a degree in COBE (except for the Economics BA, Quantitative Economics BA, Economics, Social Science, Secondary Education Emphasis BA, Business and Economic Analytics BS, and BBA in Management) must be a pre-business major and complete the COBE admission requirements prior to the declaration of a COBE major. Admission to COBE is required before a student may enroll in most upper-division business and economics courses.
Please see the COBE advising website: https://cobe.boisestate.edu/studentadvising/ to obtain specific information about the application process and application deadlines.
To be eligible for admission, students must:
- 1. complete or be in the final semester of the following gateway courses with a grade of C- or better, and
- 2. meet minimum gateway GPA requirement of 2.5, in the following courses:
- ACCT 205 Introduction to Financial Accounting
- ACCT 206 Introduction to Managerial Accounting
- BUS 101 Business for the New Generation
- BUSCOM 201 Global Business Communication
- BUSSTAT 207 Introduction to Business Analytics or MATH 254
Introduction to Statistics - ECON 201 Principles of Macroeconomics
- ECON 202 Principles of Microeconomics
- ITM 105 Spreadsheet Topics
- MATH 149 Precalculus: Functions for Business or equivalent as
determined by advisor
University general education requirements do not need to be completed before admission to COBE, but it is strongly advised that students finish most of the general education coursework in the first two years while declared as pre- business major. Students should work on the following common degree requirements in conjunction with the gateway courses while declared as pre- business major:
- FW ENGL 101 Introduction to College Writing
- FW ENGL 102 College Writing and Research
- UF 100 Intellectual Foundations
- UF 200 Civic and Ethical Foundations
- BUSSTAT 208 Business Analytics
- FN (2) Natural, Physical and Applied Science (one with a lab, from two
different fields) - FH Humanities
- FA Arts
| Business Administration BBA | |
|---|---|
| Course Number and Title | Credits |
| UF 100 Foundations of Intellectual Life | 3 |
| UF 200 Foundations of Ethics and Diversity | 3 |
| FW ENGL 101 Introduction to College Writing | 3 |
| FW ENGL 102 Intro to College Writing and Research | 3 |
| FM MATH 143 Precalculus I: Algebraic Functions or FM MATH 149 Precalculus: Functions for Business or FM MATH 160 Survey of Calculus or FM MATH 170 Calculus I: Concepts and Applications | 3-4 |
| FN Natural, Physical, & Applied Sciences course with lab | 4 |
| FN Natural, Physical, & Applied Sciences course in a second field | 3-4 |
| FA Arts course | 3 |
| FH Humanities course | 3-4 |
| FS ECON 201 Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
| FS Social Sciences course in a second field | 3 |
| ACCT 205 Introduction to Financial Accounting | 3 |
| ACCT 206 Introduction to Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| BUS 101 Business for the New Generation | 3 |
| BUS 202 The Legal Environment of Business | 3 |
| BUS 301 Leadership Skills | 3 |
| BUS 420 Managerial Problem Solving | 3 |
| BUS 441 Business in Society: Ethics, Responsibility, and Sustainability | 3 |
| FF BUS 450 Business Policies | 3 |
| FC BUSCOM 201 Global Business Communication | 3 |
| BUSSTAT 207 Introduction to Business Analytics or MATH 254 Introduction to Statistics | 3 |
| BUSSTAT 208 Business Analytics | 3 |
| ECON 202 Principles of Microeconomics | 3 |
| FINAN 303 Principles of Finance | 3 |
| HRM 305 Principles of Finance | 3 |
| CoBE Computer Placement Exam or ITM 105 Spreadsheet Topics | 0-2 |
| ITM 310 Business Intelligence | 3 |
| MKTG 301 Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| SCM 345 Principles of Operations Management | 3 |
| Choose five (5) upper-division courses from at least two (2) of the following four (4) clusters: 1. ACCT and/or FINAN 2. BUS, ENTREP, HRM, INTBUS, and/or NONPROF 3. ITM and/or SCM 4. ECON and/or MKTG | 15 |
| Electives to total 120 credits | 15-20 |
| Total | 120 |
| All courses required by the major must have a grade of C- or better. | |