Take your business career to the next level – maybe even a management level – with an online Bachelor of Business Administration from Grantham University. This IACBE-accredited program will give you the skills you need to evaluate business-related issues and could open doors to administrative and supervisory positions in just about any industry.
As you work to gain a fundamental understanding of every area of business, you’ll study consumer behavior … discover strategies for more effective decision making … learn how to lead teams, run meetings, create business plans and much more!
Human Resource Management
The program is designed to provide a comprehensive study of core competencies within the field: Business Management, Business Law, Labor Relations, Employment Law, Training and Development, Performance Management, Quality Management, Compensation and Organizational Behavior.
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
The program provides students the framework in which they are able to develop the critical skills, knowledge, and abilities necessary to be successful in logistics, transportation, or supply chain management careers.
Procurement and Contract Management
The program provides students the knowledge and skills in procuring, negotiating and administering contracts with suppliers, distributors and end-product users.
Financial Planning
The program is focused on advisement of long-term financial objectives by analyzing the client’s status and setting a program to achieve that client’s goals. <a href="/online-degrees/business-administration-bachelor-financial-planning/">Financial Planning</a>
This online business administration degree can help you pursue a number of supervisory and management positions – from general operations management to sales administrative roles1. You can also pursue a career in management analysis or cost estimating. Plus, the skills you’ll learn are universally important – in businesses, non-profits or even the government. You could work almost anywhere.
At 120 credit hours, the online bachelor of business administration degree program is designed to be completed in 38 months. It could take less time depending on how much transfer credit you receive and how many classes you take every term.
The undergraduate rate is $265 per credit hour – lower if you’re a member of the military, a veteran or part of a military family. Grantham also offers scholarships and financial aid for those who qualify.
Courses begin monthly, so we’re ready when you are.
Call us at (888) 947-2684 to learn more about our accredited degree programs, financial assistance opportunities or enrollment process.
After successfully completing the courses in this business administration management program, you will be able to:
Grantham University prepares graduates to succeed in a variety of professional and civic settings by incorporating these six critical life skills into the curriculum:
As you consider your business administration degree options, bear in mind a Bachelor of Business Administration from Grantham can help you advance your current career or pursue an entry-level management position – in any area requiring a strong education and foundation in administrative matters1.
Potential career paths and positions include:
Employers can include:
Grantham University’s 100% online and professionally relevant coursework is designed to help you prepare for your next career.
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| Program Core Credits: | 39 | ||
| General Education Core Credits: | 42 | ||
| Concentration Credits: | 18 | ||
| Electives Credits: | 21 | ||
| Concentration Credits: | 18 | ||
| Electives Credits: | 21 | ||
| Concentration Credits: | 18 | ||
| Electives Credits: | 21 | ||
| Electives Credits: | 39 | ||
| Total Credit Hours: | 120 | ||
| Accreditation(s): | DEAC, IACBE |
| Program Core: | 39 | ||
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| Course: IS242 | Title: Management Information Systems | Credits: 3 | |
| This course covers the principles of managing information systems in the context of an enterprise. Topics include coverage of information technology in management, information systems in decision-making, planning of information systems, systems development, controls and security measures, and electronic commerce. | |||
| Course: MGT150 | Title: Principles of Business Management | Credits: 3 | |
| This introductory course provides students with a practical and concrete explanation of the concepts and techniques they will need as managers in today's new organizations. The sequence of topics follows the familiar pattern of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Throughout the course, the manager's role in leading and accommodating change is emphasized. The course also introduces the student to the issues of managing global businesses, especially the ways in which managers need to develop a global perspective in order to be successful. Issues in strategy, diversity, and entrepreneurship are covered extensively. | |||
| Course: MKG131 | Title: Foundations of Marketing | Credits: 3 | |
| This course on the principles of marketing provides an introduction to the nature and fundamentals of the marketing activity in modern businesses. The broad view of marketing that is presented builds on the integration of marketing with the entire enterprise, reinforced by theories and concepts as well as practices and applications. Topics include an analysis of the economic factors influencing buyer behavior, marketing research, market segmentation, development of marketing programs (new product, price, advertising and distribution decisions), and international marketing. The course also covers new marketing technologies that are revolutionizing the way companies bring value to their customers. | |||
| Course: ECN201 | Title: Microeconomics | Credits: 3 | |
| This course provides the student with a sound foundation in economic thinking that is central to business. Topics that are covered include: supply and demand, opportunity costs, elasticities, utility theory, the economic concept of the firm, the relationship between costs and capital in the short-run, and in the long-run, competition, monopoly, anti-trust laws, and public and private goods. | |||
| Course: ECN206 | Title: Macroeconomics | Credits: 3 | |
| This introductory course provides an overview of current and traditional concerns and methods of macroeconomics. Topics that are covered include: economic growth, unemployment inflation, government deficits, monetary policy, investment and capital, the role and methods of the Federal Reserve, Keynesian and monetarist theories and comparative advantage. | |||
| Course: ACC220 | Title: Financial Accounting | Credits: 3 | |
| This introductory financial accounting course introduces the student to the important role of financial accounting in modernbusiness. The key role of financial accounting is to provide useful information to external users in order that a wide variety of economic decisions can be made. The course covers the theory and practice of accounting applicable to the recording, summarizing and reporting of business transactions. Topics include the different types of financial statements and accounts, asset valuation, revenue and expense recognition and appropriate accounting for asset, liability and capital accounts. | |||
| Course: ACC226 | Title: Managerial Accounting | Credits: 3 | |
| This course is a continuation of Financial Accounting, shifting the focus from external reporting to internal needs of managers. Managerial accounting information helps managers accomplish three essential functions: planning, controlling and decisionmaking. The course provides students with an understanding of managerial accounting information to enable them to evaluate the usefulness of managerial accounting techniques in the real world. Topics include: managerial accounting terminology, budgeting, costing, breakeven analysis and cost-volume-profitability analysis. The methods of identifying and extracting relevant information from managerial accounting systems as an input to decision making and performance evaluation are stressed throughout the course. | |||
| Course: LAW220 | Title: Business Law I | Credits: 3 | |
| This course is designed to provide the student with a basic understanding of the law that affects business operations including the topics of torts, contracts, commercial paper, and sales. New developments that affect the legal environment of business are presented from all three sources of law: statutes, regulations, and case law. The student will gain a thorough understanding of law that governs business and will gain an understanding of how new developments in technology affect business law. | |||
| Course: ETH301 | Title: Business and Society | Credits: 3 | |
| This intermediate course is designed to provide the student with a basic understanding of business and how it relates to society as a whole. The major topics include the corporation in society, the business and the social environment, business and the ethical environment, business and government in a global society, the corporation and the natural environment, business and technological change. A systems-thinking approach is central to the course, wherein business, government and society are so closely intertwined that an action that affects one will inevitably affect the others. The corporation's responsibilities to primary and secondary stakeholders, both economic and ethical, are studied in light of various social issues. | |||
| Course: HRM340 | Title: Human Resource Management | Credits: 3 | |
| This course provides students with a comprehensive review of the concepts and techniques associated with strategic human resource management (HRM) in an emerging global context. Key issues examined are the legal, ethical, and regulatory nature of the business environment. Also studied are the specific technical areas of job evaluation, recruitment and selection, compensation and benefits, training and development, performance appraisal and employee relations. Of particular importance is the examination of such areas as technology, international staffing, and global competition. | |||
| Course: FIN307 | Title: Principles of Finance I | Credits: 3 | |
| This intermediate course examines the role of the financial manager in the overall management and control of a firm. Stress is placed on the use of analytical models for improving the decision-making process. Both the short-term management of working capital and the long-term planning of capital structure and investment strategy are covered. Topics include financial ratio analysis, the time value of money, valuation of stocks and bonds, free cash flows, capital budgeting and the cost of capital. | |||
| Course: MGT468 | Title: Organizational Behavior | Credits: 3 | |
| This course introduces students to concepts and principles of organizational behavior. Students investigate the impact that individuals, groups, and structures have on behavior within organizations, for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization's effectiveness. Topics addressed include motivation, leadership, communications, group structure and process, attitude and values, and the change process. | |||
| Course: BUS499 | Title: Business Policy and Strategy | Credits: 3 | |
| This advanced course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive review of management and the total business enterprise. Students learn strategy formulation, implementation and evaluation concepts and techniques through an applied project. Students use this new knowledge, coupled with knowledge acquired from other courses, to chart the future direction of different types of organizations. The course builds on previous courses to offer insights and analytic tools, which a general manager needs to plan and implement successful business policies and strategies. The course emphasizes the practicalapplication of business theory to business problems through a course project and the choice of an exam or internship opportunity. The internship opportunity is arranged by the student and approved by the instructor. This internship option is not available to students who are Ohio residents due to state requirements. Ohio students taking BUS499 must complete the examination that is part of | |||
| General Education: | 42 | ||
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| Course: GU101 | Title: Student Success | Credits: 3 | |
| This course provides students with the foundation of knowledge and skills needed for today's online college environment. Students will explore their own preparedness for online learning through examination and analysis of their own skills, traits, and behaviors. In addition, students will acclimate to the online college environment through specifically-designed activities which provide opportunities to acquire necessary skills, behaviors, and understandings which are essential for academic success. | |||
| Course: English Composition | Credits: 6 | ||
| Course: Math | Credits: 6 | ||
| Course: MA105 | Title: College Algebra | Credits: 3 | |
| This course is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of algebra. Topics include equations, polynomial and rational functions and graphing and exponential and logarithmic functions. A new textbook may be required in order to ensure needed electronic codes are valid. | |||
| Course: MA215 | Title: Business Statistics | Credits: 3 | |
| This course applies descriptive and inferential statistics to solve business problems. Student perform statistical analysis of samples, compute the measures of location and dispersion, and perform linear and multiple regression and correlation analysis. Other topics include constructing a hypothesis, performing one-way and two-way analysis of variance, and making decisions under risk and uncertainty. NOTE: Credit may not be awarded for both MA215 and MA230. | |||
| Course: Natural/Physical Science | Credits: 3 | ||
| Course: Computer Science | Credits: 3 | ||
| Course: CS155 | Title: Computer Applications for Business | Credits: 3 | |
| This course explores applications within the Microsoft Office Suite with an emphasis on the tools needed in a business context. While covering Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, focus is placed on the use of Excel for analyzing and presenting data. Techniques for the creation of professional documents are addressed. | |||
| Course: Oral Communication | Credits: 6 | ||
| Course: Humanities and Fine Arts | Credits: 6 | ||
| Course: HU260 | Title: Strategies for Decision Making | Credits: 3 | |
| This course examines critical thinking and the analysis of arguments in terms of premises, reasons, and conclusions. Course topics include obstacles to critical thinking, diagramming arguments, belief and doubt, logical fallacies, inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, inferences, and judging scientific theories. | |||
| Course: Social/Behavioral Science | Credits: 9 | ||
English Composition courses must be EN101 or above.