DESCRIPTION
The Bachelor of Business Administration Program provides full-time and part-time intensive study for students wishing to earn a business degree.
Based on extensive consultations with business leaders, this degree is designed for managers and entrepreneurs who intend to take business leadership roles or start their own businesses. Graduates will be engaged in enterprise development and management and leadership in small and medium-sized business.
This degree is an appropriate goal for students who want to study beyond a diploma or their initial two years of post-secondary education. Students enter the program in Year 1 or in Year 3 after either successfully completing a college business diploma or two years (60 credits) of study at a post-secondary institution, with appropriate bridging courses.
Many degree classes are scheduled after 4:00 p.m., and in the evening to allow students to further their education while maintaining current employment.
Students acquire the following:
- Technical business skills through subject specific studies
- General success skills through essential skills studies
- A better understanding of human society and how to contribute to it through liberal education studies
Some unique features of this program are:
- Practicum, learning partnerships with business, applied projects and assignments and ongoing work experience
- Full block transfer of credits from recognized college and university programs
- Focus on management of small to medium sized businesses, entrepreneurial management and management of service sector enterprises
- Exit/re-entry flexibility, where a student can complete the program at their own pace. This allows for changing outside-of-school time requirements and does not lock a student into a rigid program structure and timeframe
- Professional development for individuals seeking higher level training
- Students can earn a Diploma in General Business Studies at the end of their first 60 credits if they have completed all the core courses
Options: Regular and Co-op Mode
Students may graduate from either the Bachelor of Business Administration Degree or the optional Co-operative Education mode.
Students applying for Co-op must complete all prescribed courses with a minimum GPA of 2.7 in any five program courses and permission of the instructor. In order to receive a Co-operative Education designation, the following criteria must be met in addition to the 120 credit hours of course work:
- Completion of COOP 1101
- Satisfactory completion of one eight-month work term or two four-month work terms
Admission Requirements to Co-op Education
Co-op admission is optional and selective. Students wishing to choose the Co-op option must register into COOP 1101 upon admission into the degree program. If you have already taken COOP 1101, contact the Co-op Office to indicate your interest in the Co-op option. Prerequisites for the first co-op work term (COOP 3210) are COOP 1101, permission of the instructor and a minimum GPA of 2.7 in any five program courses.
In addition to academic requirements, satisfactory work evaluations are required in this co-op option.
Please refer to the Co-operative Education section of the calendar or contact the Co-op Education department at 604.599.2465 for more information on the Co-op option.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Depending upon their capabilities and experience, a graduate may be able to attain advancement with their current employer, develop their own business enterprise, or fill a variety of management and leadership positions in small and medium-sized businesses.
ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS
For students entering the program in first year, the admission requirements are met by all of the following:
- BC high school English 12 with a B or better, or equivalent
- Principles of Math 11 with a C+ or better, or equivalent or Applications of Math 12 with a B or better
For students entering the program in the third year, upon completion of two years of study, the admission requirements are met by one of the following:
- Completion of a business-related diploma from a recognized college or university, with a minimum of 60 credits, a cumulative GPA of 2.7 or higher, and a C+ or higher in Accounting and Statistics
- Completion of 60 transferable credits at the undergraduate level from any recognized college, including the required six bridging courses (listed below), or transferable equivalents, with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.7 and with a C+ in Accounting and Statistics
Note: As of September 2002, a first year English course (excluding ENGL 1099) is a requirement for graduation for all Kwantlen degrees.
Bridging Program Courses
Students who do not have a two-year business-related diploma but have completed a minimum of 60 post-secondary credits from a recognized post-secondary institution are required to complete six bridging courses. Applicants who have successfully completed courses at other institutions may apply for transfer credit.
- All of:
- ACCT 1230 Business Statistics (minimum C+ grade)
- ACCT 2293 Introductory Financial Accounting or ACCT 1110 AND 1210 (minimum C+ grade)
- ECON 1150 Principles of Microeconomics
- MRKT 1199 Introduction to Marketing
- One of:
- One of:
- CBSY 1105 Introductory Microcomputer Applications
- CBSY 2205 Computers and Information Processing
CONTINUANCE REQUIREMENTS
For students admitted to Year 1 of the program, continuation after achieving 60 credits requires:
- program GPA of at least 2.7
- C+ or better in accounting, and a C+ or better in statistics
- successful completion of the first year English and Applied Communications requirements
Prior Learning Assessment (PLA)
If the student wishes to attempt PLA credits, they should contact the Educational Advising office and the PLA Coordinator in the academic department offering the course for which they are seeking PLA credit (e.g. a student desiring PLA credit for BUSI 1210 - Essentials of Management, must contact Educational Advising and the Business Management Department directly). This assessment should be initiated at least six months in advance of the intended start date.
CONTENT
The complete degree program will require 120 semester credit hours of post-secondary courses. This includes the initial two years of post-secondary education equal to 60 semester credit hours if the student enters in third year. The third and fourth year courses will provide an additional 60 semester credit hours consisting of 45 semester credit hours of Business studies and 15 semester credit hours of Liberal Education studies.
The courses in third and fourth year are rigorous and demanding. Prior to registering, the student should carefully consider the time requirements of part-time versus full-time study based on their individual work and personal situation.
Note: Not all courses are offered at all times or on all campuses. It is important to ensure work and personal schedules can accommodate the posted schedule times prior to committing to the program. It may be necessary for students to take courses at both Surrey and Richmond campuses to complete the BBA program
Students should refer to the admissions section of this calendar for dates, deadlines and procedures for reapplying.
Students are able to enter and exit the final two years of the program as their needs change. Students must complete all the required courses to graduate. They may take longer than a year at each level if they prefer to study part-time. All courses are three credit hours unless otherwise noted.
Several courses (e.g. ENTR 3110, ENTR 3140 and others) are prerequisites and must be successfully completed before a student will be admitted to other courses. As well, some courses are not offered every term and/or during evenings and/or on all campuses. Please consult an Educational Advisor, for help in planning a program and for further details.
Core Courses
- Year 1
- Year 2
- ECON 1250 Principles of Macroeconomics
- BUSI 2390 Business Law
- ACCT 3320 Introductory Management Accounting
- One of:
- MRKT 1299 Consumer Behaviour
- Elective (selected from the list of approved Liberal Education courses or from the list of Economics courses numbered 1100 or higher and/or Applied Communications courses numbered 1100 or higher.)
- All of:
- Elective
- CBSY 2205 Computers and Information Processing
- Select any four courses numbered 2000 or higher from the following departments:
- Accounting (ACCT)
- Business Management (BUSI)
- Computer Business Systems (CBSY)
- Economics (ECON)
- Marketing (MRKT)
*Students who take ACCT 3320 may not take ENTR 3120 for further credit. Students who complete ACCT 3320 may take an elective instead of ENTR 3120 in Year 3.
- Year 3
- ENTR 3000 Professional Business Communications
- ENTR 3110 Advanced Organizational Behaviour
- ENTR 3120 Managerial Accounting or ACCT 3320 Introductory Management Accounting
- ENTR 3130 Production and Operations Management
- ENTR 3140 Entrepreneurial Marketing
- ENTR 3150 Business Economics
- ENTR 3160 Information Technology for Business
- ENTR 3170 Entrepreneurial Finance or ACCT 3380 Managerial Finance
- Year 4
- ENTR 4110 Business Leadership
- ENTR 4120 Human Resource Management
- ENTR 4140 Entrepreneurial Sales and Customer Service*
- ENTR 4200 Business Strategy
- ENTR 4250 Entrepreneurial Leadership Practicum (6 credit hours)**
- ENTR 4300 Entrepreneurial Management for Service Companies
Note:
*Students are required to participate in an actual sales project that counts towards their graded assessment.
**Students are required to participate in an actual business launch project that counts towards their graded assessment.
Liberal Education
All Business degrees require the completion of 15 credit hours of Liberal Education. They are made up as follows:
Required - One third or fourth year Ethics course
Select from:
- PHIL 3033 Business Ethics (formerly ENTR 3033)
- LBED 4210 Ethics and Social Issues
- or an equivalent third or fourth year Ethics course
Liberal Education Electives – four from:
Courses approved by the Liberal Education Committee for use by School of Business students (view approved courses online at www.kwantlen.cacourses/lbedcrs/libeduelec.html). Please consult with an Educational Advisor or view the online advising website (http://www.kwantlen.ca/advising).
English Requirement
One post-secondary English course (such as ENGL 1100) is a graduation requirement for all Kwantlen University College degrees. If English was not taken prior to BBA entrance, students must take ENGL 1100 (or equivalent) in addition to the above courses, resulting in 123 credits to graduate.
Note: This English requirement does not apply if the student started the BBA program prior to September 2002.
BREADTH REQUIREMENTS:
Effective September 2009, students will be required to have completed 42 of the total 120 credit hours as breadth/liberal education electives in order to graduate. This applies to students that entered year 1 from Fall 2007 and year 3 from Fall 2009. Students who have entered the program with a Kwantlen Business diploma will have satisfied the first half of this requirement. (Applied Communications, Economics and English courses within the business diploma programs are counted as breadth/liberal education electives.) For more information please see an Educational Advisor.
GRADUATION
Upon successful completion of this program, students are awarded a Bachelor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurial Leadership.