General Business
Major: General Business
Degree Awarded: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA)
Calendar Type: Quarter
Total Credit Hours: 180.0
Co-op Options: Three Co-op (Five years); One Co-op (Four years); No Co-op (Four years)
Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code: 52.0201
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code: 11-1021; 11-2022; 11-3011; 11-9199
About the Program
The major in general business equips students with a thorough understanding of theory and practice in the fundamental areas of business such as accounting, economics, finance, management, and marketing. This major is intended for business students who wish to gain breadth within their undergraduate studies. Students will develop the skills and competencies necessary for success across a diverse spectrum of business organizations.
Students selecting the major in general business should choose eight courses from at least five of the following fields: accounting (ACCT), economics (ECON), finance (FIN), human resource management (HRMT), international business (INTB), legal studies (BLAW), management (MGMT), marketing (MKTG), management information systems (MIS), business statistics (STAT), organizational behavior (ORGB), operations research (OPR), operations management (OPM), real estate management and development (REMD) and sport business (SPBS).
Please note that students pursuing this degree option are not eligible to obtain a business co-major or business minor.
Degree Requirements
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| General Education Requirements | ||
| CIVC 101 | Introduction to Civic Engagement | 1.0 |
| COM 270 [WI] | Business Communication | 3.0 |
| COOP 101 | Career Management and Professional Development * | 1.0 |
| ENGL 101 | Composition and Rhetoric I: Inquiry and Exploratory Research | 3.0 |
| or ENGL 111 | English Composition I | |
| ENGL 102 | Composition and Rhetoric II: Advanced Research and Evidence-Based Writing | 3.0 |
| or ENGL 112 | English Composition II | |
| ENGL 103 | Composition and Rhetoric III: Themes and Genres | 3.0 |
| or ENGL 113 | English Composition III | |
| MATH 101 | Introduction to Analysis I | 4.0 |
| MATH 102 | Introduction to Analysis II | 4.0 |
| PHIL 105 | Critical Reasoning | 3.0 |
| PSY 101 | General Psychology I | 3.0 |
| UNIV B101 | The Drexel Experience | 1.0 |
| UNIV B201 [WI] | Career Management | 1.0 |
| English Literature elective ENGL 200 through ENGL 399 | 3.0 | |
| Fine Arts eletive | 3.0 | |
| History (HIST) elective | 4.0 | |
| Select two of the following: | 6.0 | |
| Applied Cells, Genetics & Physiology | ||
or BIO 101 | Applied Biological Diversity, Ecology & Evolution | |
| Applied Chemistry | ||
| Applied Physics | ||
| General Education Electives | ||
| Students select 16.0 credits general education electives, with a minimum of one course in each of the following three categories. Students take the remaining 7.0 credits rom any of the topics listed under Additional General Education Electives. | ||
| Society and Culture | ||
| Communication, English, Fine Arts, Global Studies, Language or Philosophy | 3.0 | |
| Social Science | ||
| Anthropology, History, Sociology, Political Science, Psychology | 3.0 | |
| Science | ||
| Computer Science, Information Systems, Science | 3.0 | |
| Additional General Education Electives | ||
| Seven (7.0) credits must be earned by taking 4 courses from the following topics: Communication, English, Fine Arts, Global Studies, Language, Philosophy, Anthropology, History, Sociology, Politicial Science, Psychology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Math, Science | 7.0 | |
| Business Requirements | ||
| ACCT 115 | Financial Accounting Foundations | 4.0 |
| ACCT 116 | Managerial Accounting Foundations | 4.0 |
| BLAW 201 | Business Law I | 4.0 |
| BSAN 160 | Business Analytics and Data Visualization | 4.0 |
| BUSN 101 | Foundations of Business I | 4.0 |
| BUSN 102 | Foundations of Business II | 4.0 |
| ECON 201 | Principles of Microeconomics | 4.0 |
| ECON 202 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 4.0 |
| FIN 301 | Introduction to Finance | 4.0 |
| INTB 200 | International Business | 4.0 |
| MGMT 450 | Strategy and Competitive Advantage | 4.0 |
| MIS 200 | Management Information Systems | 4.0 |
| MKTG 201 | Introduction to Marketing Management | 4.0 |
| OPM 200 | Operations Management | 4.0 |
| ORGB 300 [WI] | Organizational Behavior | 4.0 |
| STAT 201 | Introduction to Business Statistics | 4.0 |
| Select one of the following: | 4.0 | |
| Introduction to Entrepreneurship | ||
| For-Profit Business Consulting | ||
| Nonprofit Business Consulting | ||
| Startup Business Consulting | ||
| International Business Consulting | ||
| Negotiations and Conflict Resolution | ||
| Sport Business Consulting | ||
| Business Statistics II | ||
| Major Requirements ** | ||
| Eight required courses | 32.0 | |
| Free electives | 18.0 | |
| Total Credits | 180.0 | |
| * | Students not participating in co-op will not take COOP 101; 1 credit of Free Elective will be added in place of COOP 101. COOP 101 registration is determined by the co-op cycle assigned and may be scheduled in a different term. Select students may be eligible to take COOP 001 in place of COOP 101. |
| ** | Students selecting the major in general business should choose eight courses from at least five of the following fields: accounting, economics, finance, human resource management, international business, legal studies, management, marketing, management information systems, business statistics organizational behavior, operrations research, operations management, real estate management and development, and sport business. |
Writing-Intensive Course Requirements
In order to graduate, all students must pass three writing-intensive courses after their freshman year. Two writing-intensive courses must be in a student's major. The third can be in any discipline. Students are advised to take one writing-intensive class each year, beginning with the sophomore year, and to avoid “clustering” these courses near the end of their matriculation. Transfer students need to meet with an academic advisor to review the number of writing-intensive courses required to graduate.
A "WI" next to a course in this catalog may indicate that this course can fulfill a writing-intensive requirement. For the most up-to-date list of writing-intensive courses being offered, students should check the Writing Intensive Course List at the University Writing Program. Students scheduling their courses can also conduct a search for courses with the attribute "WI" to bring up a list of all writing-intensive courses available that term.
4 year, no co-op
| First Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| BUSN 101 | 4.0 | BUSN 102 | 4.0 | ACCT 115 | 4.0 | VACATION | |
| ECON 201 | 4.0 | CIVC 101 | 1.0 | ENGL 103 or 113 | 3.0 | ||
| ENGL 101 or 111 | 3.0 | ECON 202 | 4.0 | PSY 101 | 3.0 | ||
| MATH 101 | 4.0 | ENGL 102 or 112 | 3.0 | Select one of the following: | 3.0 | ||
| UNIV B101 | 1.0 | MATH 102 | 4.0 | ||||
| General Education elective | 3.0 | ||||||
| 16 | 16 | 16 | 0 | ||||
| Second Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| ACCT 116 | 4.0 | INTB 200 | 4.0 | FIN 301 | 4.0 | VACATION | |
| BLAW 201 | 4.0 | MIS 200 | 4.0 | MKTG 201 | 4.0 | ||
| COM 270 | 3.0 | Select one of the following: | 4.0 | OPM 200 | 4.0 | ||
| STAT 201 | 4.0 | English Literature elective (ENGL 200 - ENGL 399) | 3.0 | ||||
| Select one of the following: | 3.0 | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | 15 | 0 | ||||
| Third Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| PHIL 105 | 3.0 | Major Elective courses | 8.0 | Major Elective courses | 8.0 | VACATION | |
| ORGB 300 | 4.0 | Fine Arts elective | 3.0 | Social Science elective | 3.0 | ||
| Major Elective courses | 8.0 | History (HIST) elective | 3.0 | Society and Culture elective | 3.0 | ||
| Science elective | 3.0 | ||||||
| 15 | 17 | 14 | 0 | ||||
| Fourth Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | ||
| UNIV B201 | 1.0 | MGMT 450 | 4.0 | General Education elective | 3.0 | ||
| Major course | 4.0 | Major Elective | 4.0 | Free electives | 9.0 | ||
| Free electives | 7.0 | General Education elective | 3.0 | ||||
| General Education elective | 3.0 | Free elective | 3.0 | ||||
| 15 | 14 | 12 | |||||
| Total Credits 180 | |||||||
4 year, 1 co-op
| First Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| BUSN 101 | 4.0 | BUSN 102 | 4.0 | ACCT 115 | 4.0 | VACATION | |
| ECON 201 | 4.0 | CIVC 101 | 1.0 | ENGL 103 or 113 | 3.0 | ||
| ENGL 101 or 111 | 3.0 | COOP 101* | 1.0 | PSY 101 | 3.0 | ||
| MATH 101 | 4.0 | ECON 202 | 4.0 | Select one of the following: | 3.0 | ||
| UNIV B101 | 1.0 | ENGL 102 or 112 | 3.0 | ||||
| MATH 102 | 4.0 | ||||||
| General Education elective | 3.0 | ||||||
| 16 | 17 | 16 | 0 | ||||
| Second Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| ACCT 116 | 4.0 | INTB 200 | 4.0 | FIN 301 | 4.0 | PHIL 105 | 3.0 |
| BLAW 201 | 4.0 | MIS 200 | 4.0 | MKTG 201 | 4.0 | ORGB 300 | 4.0 |
| COM 270 | 3.0 | Select one of the following: | 4.0 | OPM 200 | 4.0 | Major Electives | 8.0 |
| STAT 201 | 4.0 | English Literature elective (ENGL 200 - ENGL 399) | 3.0 | ||||
| Select one of the following: | 3.0 | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | ||||
| Third Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| Major Electives | 8.0 | Major electives | 8.0 | COOP EXPERIENCE | COOP EXPERIENCE | ||
| Fine Arts elective | 3.0 | Social Science elective | 3.0 | ||||
| History (HIST) elective | 3.0 | Society and Culture elective | 3.0 | ||||
| Science elective | 3.0 | ||||||
| 17 | 14 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Fourth Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | ||
| UNIV B201 | 1.0 | MGMT 450 | 4.0 | General Education elective | 3.0 | ||
| Major elective | 4.0 | Major elective | 4.0 | Free electives | 9.0 | ||
| Free electives | 6.0 | General Education elective | 3.0 | ||||
| General Education elective | 3.0 | Free elective | 3.0 | ||||
| 14 | 14 | 12 | |||||
| Total Credits 180 | |||||||
| * | COOP 101 registration is determined by the co-op cycle assigned and may be scheduled in a different term. Select students may be eleigible to take COOP 001 in place of COOP 101. |
5 year, 3 co-ops
| First Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| BUSN 101 | 4.0 | BUSN 102 | 4.0 | ACCT 115 | 4.0 | VACATION | |
| ECON 201 | 4.0 | CIVC 101 | 1.0 | ENGL 103 or 113 | 3.0 | ||
| ENGL 101 or 111 | 3.0 | COOP 101* | 1.0 | PSY 101 | 3.0 | ||
| MATH 101 | 4.0 | ECON 202 | 4.0 | Select one of the following: | 3.0 | ||
| UNIV B101 | 1.0 | ENGL 102 or 112 | 3.0 | ||||
| MATH 102 | 4.0 | ||||||
| General Education elective | 3.0 | ||||||
| 16 | 17 | 16 | 0 | ||||
| Second Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| ACCT 116 | 4.0 | INTB 200 | 4.0 | COOP EXPERIENCE | COOP EXPERIENCE | ||
| BLAW 201 | 4.0 | MIS 200 | 4.0 | ||||
| COM 270 | 3.0 | Select one of the following: | 4.0 | ||||
| STAT 201 | 4.0 | ||||||
| Select one of the following | 3.0 | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Third Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| FIN 301 | 4.0 | PHIL 105 | 3.0 | COOP EXPERIENCE | COOP EXPERIENCE | ||
| MKTG 201 | 4.0 | ORGB 300 | 4.0 | ||||
| OPM 200 | 4.0 | Major electives | 8.0 | ||||
| English Literature elective (ENGL 200 - 399) | 3.0 | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Fourth Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| Major electives | 8.0 | Major electives | 8.0 | COOP EXPERIENCE | COOP EXPERIENCE | ||
| Fine Arts elective | 3.0 | Social Sciene elective | 3.0 | ||||
| History (HIST) elective | 3.0 | Society and Culture elective | 3.0 | ||||
| Science elective | 3.0 | ||||||
| 17 | 14 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Fifth Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | ||
| UNIV B201 | 1.0 | MGMT 450 | 4.0 | General Education elective | 3.0 | ||
| Major elective | 4.0 | Major elective | 4.0 | Free electives | 9.0 | ||
| General Education elective | 3.0 | General Education elective | 3.0 | ||||
| Free electives | 6.0 | Free elective | 3.0 | ||||
| 14 | 14 | 12 | |||||
| Total Credits 180 | |||||||
| * | COOP 101 registration is determined by the co-op cycle assigned and may be scheduled in a different term. Select students may be eleigible to take COOP 001 in place of COOP 101. |
Co-Op/Career Opportunities
Visit the Drexel Steinbright Career Development Center page for more detailed information on co-op and post-graduate opportunities. To learn more about career opportunities and resources see the Career Guides provided by the Steinbright Career Development Center.
Facilities
LeBow College of Business opened its 12-story, 177,500-square-foot home, Gerri C. LeBow Hall in September 2013. Located in the heart of Drexel University campus, it forms a gateway to Drexel and serves as a backdrop to the historic statue of A.J. Drexel (Moses Ezekiel, 1904).
The building’s organization unites the school’s various constituencies around a five-story-high atrium ringed by 15 classrooms of varying sizes and configurations, including a finance trading lab. The atrium is immediately accessible from main entrances at the three corners of the building. An open stair within the atrium leads to a 300-seat auditorium, 100-seat lecture hall, and a behavioral studies lab one floor below. Other amenities consist of 19 collaboration rooms, 3,500 square feet of student lounges and quiet study areas, a bank of four elevators and full ADA accessibility, and an event space with catering capacity. The building's upper floors contain faculty and staff offices interspersed with seminar and conference rooms.
Gerri C. LeBow Hall brings together faculty, students, and staff in a state-of-the-art building on the University City campus. Please visit the LeBow College of Business webpage, the Behavioral Lab webpage, the Finance Trading Lab webpage, and the SAP Next-Gen webpage to learn more about Gerri C. LeBow Hall.
