Finance: Financial Planning, BSBA
Requirements for Students Matriculating in or before Academic Year 2025-2026. Learn more about University Academic Regulation 3.1.
Minimum Overall Grade Point Average: 2.50
Total Hours: 120
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| General Education Requirements | ||
| English Composition | ||
| See Academic Regulation 3.5 | ||
| ENGL 1113 | Composition I | 3 |
| or ENGL 1313 | Critical Analysis and Writing I | |
| ENGL 1213 | Composition II | 3 |
| or ENGL 1413 | Critical Analysis and Writing II | |
| American History & Government | ||
| HIST 1103 | Survey of American History | 3 |
| or HIST 1483 | American History to 1865 (H) | |
| or HIST 1493 | American History Since 1865 (DH) | |
| POLS 1113 | American Government | 3 |
| Quantitative Thought & Logical Reasoning (Q) | ||
| MATH 1483 | Mathematical Functions and Their Uses (Q) (or higher MATH designated "Q" (except for MATH 1493)) | 3 |
| Understanding Humanities-Human Heritage & Cultures (H) | ||
| Courses designated (H) | 6 | |
| Reasoning in the Natural Sciences (N) | ||
| Must include one Laboratory-Based Inquiry (L) course | ||
| Courses designated (N) with one (L) | 7 | |
| Exploring Society & Human Behavior (S) | ||
| MGMT 3013 | Fundamentals of Management (S) 1, 2 | 3 |
| Diversity (D) | ||
| Courses designated (D) | 3 | |
| Global Cultural Competency (G) | ||
| Courses designated (G) | 3 | |
| Additional General Education | ||
| Additional general education credit hours may be required to meet the total 40-hour minimum of general education credit if courses carry more than one general education designation and can be used to meet multiple general education designation hour requirements above. | ||
| Courses designated (Q), (H), (N), (S), (D), (G), or (F). | 0 | |
| MSIS 2233 | Business Analytics Fundamentals (Q) 1 | 3 |
| Hours Subtotal | 40 | |
| College/Departmental Requirements | ||
| UNIV 1111 | First Year Seminar (or other approved first-year seminar course) | 1 |
| BADM 2111 | Career Planning for Business Success | 1 |
| BADM 3111 | Professional Development for Business Success | 1 |
| Hours Subtotal | 3 | |
| Major Requirements | ||
| A minimum GPA of 2.00 is required in these 73 hours | ||
| Common Body 2 | ||
| ACCT 2003 | Survey of Accounting 3 | 3 |
| or ACCT 2103 & ACCT 2203 | Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting | |
| BADM 3113 | Practical Business and Interpersonal Skills | 3 |
| ECON 2003 | Microeconomic Principles for Business | 3 |
| EEE 2023 | Introduction to Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| FIN 3113 | Principles of Finance | 3 |
| LSB 3213 | Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business | 3 |
| MGMT 4513 | Strategic Management | 3 |
| MKTG 3213 | Marketing (S) | 3 |
| MSIS 2103 | Business Data Science Technologies | 3 |
| MSIS 3223 | Principles of Data Analytics | 3 |
| Finance Major Requirements | ||
| A minimum GPA of 2.00 is required in these 43 hours of Finance Major Requirements | ||
| 23 of these 43 hours must be in residence at OSU | ||
| Core Courses: | ||
| FIN 2123 | Personal Finance | 3 |
| ACCT 3004 | Foundational Accounting and Data Skills | 4 |
| ECON 2203 | Introduction to Macroeconomics | 3 |
| STAT 2023 | Elementary Statistics for Business and Economics (Q) | 3 |
| or STAT 2053 | Elementary Statistics for the Social Sciences (Q) | |
| or STAT 2013 | Elementary Statistics (Q) | |
| FIN 4223 | Investments | 3 |
| FIN 4333 | Financial Modeling | 3 |
| FIN 4113 | Financial Markets and Institutions | 3 |
| or FIN 4103 | Securities Industry Essentials | |
| CFP Option Requirements | ||
| ACCT 4073 | Tax Planning for Financial Professionals | 3 |
| FIN 3613 | General Insurance | 3 |
| FIN 4053 | Study Abroad: Contemporary Global Impacts in Finance | 3 |
| FIN 4023 | Retirement and Employee Benefit Planning | 3 |
| FIN 4233 | Financial Planning Capstone Course | 3 |
| Select 6 hours of Upper Division Finance courses | 6 | |
| Hours Subtotal | 73 | |
| Electives | ||
| Select 4 hours 3 | 4 | |
| May be selected from any upper- or lower-division area except activity courses in LEIS and PE and lower-division AERO and MLSC. 12 credit hours earned in advanced AERO and MLSC, exclusive of credit earned for summer camp, may be included in the 120 hours. | ||
| Hours Subtotal | 4 | |
| Total Hours | 120 | |
- 1
Courses also meet College and Departmental Requirements and cannot be waived with an Associate’s degree.
- 2
MGMT 3013 Fundamentals of Management (S) is a common body requirement, but is counted in general education requirements.
- 3
If ACCT 2103 and ACCT 2203 are substituted for ACCT 2003, hours in the Elective block are reduced by 3.
Other Requirements
- A minimum of 50 percent of the business hours required for a degree must be OSU delivered in residence or OSU online courses.
- Forty-five hours of upper division courses required.
Additional State/OSU Requirements
- At least: 60 hours at a four-year institution; 30 hours completed at OSU; 15 of the final 30 and 50% of the upper-division hours in the major field completed at OSU.
- Limit of: one-half of major course requirements as transfer work; one-fourth of hours earned by correspondence; 8 transfer correspondence hours.
- Students will be held responsible for degree requirements in effect at the time of matriculation and any changes that are made, so long as these changes do not result in semester credit hours being added or do not delay graduation.
- Degrees that follow this plan must be completed by the end of Summer 2031.