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Online Professional Studies Degree

Bachelor of Arts

The professional studies major is an online degree completion program for individuals who hold an associate's degree in arts, science, applied arts or applied science or an associate's degree in nursing or another health care program from a regionally accredited institution.

The major is designed to enable adult students to further their career interests in

  • Organizational management
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Small business management
  • Human resource management
  • Many other professional occupations

 

 

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Requirements

ACCT 203 - Principles of Accounting I
ACCT 204 - Principles of Accounting II
BUAD 225 - Principles of Management
BUAD 301 - Principles of Marketing
CSCI 100 - Introduction to Computers
ECON 210 - Principles of Microeconomics
HRM 325 - Human Resource Management
HRM 335 - Organizational Behavior
MATH 200 - Elementary Statistics
SPEC 111 - Public Speaking
WRTG 225 - Organizational Communications

Briar Cliff recognizes that the academic, professional and experiential background, combined with in-service study and updating will constitute the first two years of the bachelor's degree.

Students admitted to this program must have at least two years professional work experience.

In addition to the core requirements, the professional studies major requires one course drawn from the following electives: ACCT 323, BUAD 150, 223, 224, 276, 305, 330, 340, 345, 350, 383, ECON 211, HRM 240, 420, MIS 220, 321.

The professional studies student must complete enough electives & all general education criteria to meet the 128 credit hours required for graduation. Briar Cliff accepts a maximum of 62 hours in transfer credit from the community college in which the student earned his/her associate's degree.  

Students must maintain a grade of "C" or better in all courses taken in this major. In the event that a transfer student might already have taken one or more of the courses in the core requirement, he or she will replace that course with one or more courses drawn from the electives.