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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog - Evening & Online

Business Administration, B.S.


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Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business
843-953-5056 www.citadel.edu/finishmyba

Todd Drew, Ed.D.
Program Director
843-953-2411, tdrew1@citadel.edu

Mission Statement

The mission of the Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business is to educate and develop leaders of principle to serve a global community.

Program Description

The Citadel’s Bachelor of Science in Business Administration is a degree-completion program offering business, general education, and elective courses online. Students may begin taking Citadel courses at any time after 30 college credit hours have been transferred to The Citadel, most of which should be General Education courses. Students planning on enrolling at The Citadel with the minimum credit hours are encouraged to complete six hours of English Composition/Literature, eight hours of science courses with labs, College Algebra, and Probability and Statistics as these courses are not regularly taught online at The Citadel.

 

Program Outcomes

  • Students will demonstrate knowledge in the functional areas of business within a global context

  • Identify principled leadership behaviors

  • Articulate evidence supporting the identified behaviors

  • Students will deliver an effective presentation 

  • Students will write effectively

  • Students will demonstrate the ability to think critically

  • Students will demonstrate the ability to reason quantitatively through interpretation of formulas, graphs, tables, statistics, spreadsheet models, simulations, or other mathematical representations

Program of Study


General Education Courses Typically Transferred: 32 Credit Hours


Humanities and Social Science (18 Hours)


  • Composition or Writing Credit Hours: 3
  • English/Literature Course Hours: 3
  • History Course Credit Hours: 3
  • Social Science Credit Hours: 3
  • Humanities and Social Science Electives Credit Hours: 6

Science and Mathematics (14 Hours)


  • MATH 104 or equivalent Credit Hours: 3
  • STAT 160 Probability & Statistics or equivalent Credit Hours: 3
  • Science lecture + lab Credit Hours: 8

Courses Taken at The Citadel: 88 Credit Hours


Business Electives (6 Hours)


Courses in:

  • Accounting
  • Business
  • Construction Management
  • Economics
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Finance
  • Hospitality Management
  • Human Resource Management
  • Logistics
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Real Estate
  • Supply Chain Management

Upper-Level General Electives (6 Hours)


  • Any 300- or 400-level Course

General Electives (33 hours)


  • Any 100-400 level course

Total Credit Hours: 120


Computation of Major GPA

All undergraduate courses taken at The Citadel with a subject prefix of ACCT, BANA, BLAW, ECON, ENTR, FINC, MGMT, MKTG, and SCMT will count towards the major GPA.

Minimum Grade Requirement

All Business Administration students must complete a set of core business courses in addition to the general education curriculum. In order to continue in their major, students must achieve a grade of “C” or higher in each of the following core business courses:

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