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
| Finance 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 160 Survey of Calculus or FM MATH 170 Calculus I: Concepts and Applications | 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 Studies course in a second field | 3 |
| ACCT 205 Introduction to Financial Accounting | 3 |
| ACCT 206 Introduction to Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| ACCT 300 Financial Reporting and Analysis | 3 |
| BUS 101 Business for the New Generation | 3 |
| BUS 202 The Legal Environment of Business | 3 |
| BUS 301 Leadership Skills | 3 |
| FF BUS 450 Business Policies | 3 |
| FC BUSCOM 201 Global Business Communication | 3 |
| BUSSTAT 207 Statistical Techniques for Decision Making I | 3 |
| BUSSTAT 208 Statistical Techniques for Decision Making II | 3 |
| ECON 202 Principles of Microeconomics | 3 |
| ECON 303 Intermediate Microeconomics | 3 |
| FINAN 303 Principles of Finance | 3 |
| FINAN 411 Capital Budgeting and Planning | 3 |
| FINAN 420 Management of Financial Institutions | 3 |
| FINAN 440 Financial Modeling | 3 |
| FINAN 450 Investment Management | 3 |
| FINAN 451 Frontiers in Financial Markets | 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 |
| Major elective chosen from upper-division finance, accounting, economics, or supply chain management. | 6 |
| Electives to total 120 credits | 12-16 |
| Total | 120 |