Business and Management

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This four-year B.S. in Business and Management program requires a minimum of 124 credit hours. A typical program is described below.

Internship Requirement: All B.S. in Business and Management students are required to complete one summer internship in a business-related area. Internships can be completed as part of The Arch Summer Semester or can be completed another time. Internships are required but are not for credit. They can be paid or unpaid. Students are required to write a reflection paper and submit it to the Director of the Undergraduate program and the CCPD at the end of the internship experience.

First Year

Fall

HASS Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
(See footnotes 1 and 2 below)

MATH 1010 - Calculus I Credit Hours: 4
MATH 1500 - Calculus for Architecture, Management, and HASS Credit Hours: 4
MGMT 1100 - Introduction to Management Credit Hours: 4
MGMT 2510 - Introduction to Data Management and Analytics Credit Hours: 4

Spring

IHSS 1200 - Principles of Economics Credit Hours: 4

CSCI 1010 - Introduction to Computer Programming Credit Hours: 4
CSCI 1100 - Computer Science I Credit Hours: 4
MATH 1020 - Calculus II Credit Hours: 4
MATH 1520 - Mathematical Methods in Management and Economics Credit Hours: 4
MGMT 1260 - Business Law and Ethics Credit Hours: 4

Second Year

Fall

Science Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
HASS Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
(See footnotes 1 and 2 below)

MGMT 1240 - Management Professional Development 1 Credit Hours: 2
MGMT 2100 - Statistical Methods Credit Hours: 4
MGMT 2300 - Financial Accounting Credit Hours: 4

Spring

Elective Credit Hours: 4

MGMT 1250 - Management Professional Development 2 Credit Hours: 2
MGMT 2430 - Marketing Principles Credit Hours: 4
MGMT 4100 - Quantitative Methods for Business Credit Hours: 4
MGMT 4110 - Operations Management Credit Hours: 4

Third Year

The Arch Summer Semester*

*For students who have applied for and been granted an exception, The Arch Summer Semester courses would be taken during the fall semester. For listing of the exception process go to: http://info.rpi.edu/arch/students/#ExceptionProcess.

HASS Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
(See footnotes 1 and 2 below)

MGMT 2320 - Managerial Finance Credit Hours: 4
MGMT 4140 - Computer Information Systems Credit Hours: 4
MGMT 4850 - Organizational Behavior in High Performance Organizations Credit Hours: 4

Fall or Spring

Science Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
HASS Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
(See footnotes 1 and 2 below)

MGMT 4860 - Human Resources in High Performance Organizations Credit Hours: 4

Fourth Year

Fall

HASS Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
(See footnotes 1 and 2 below)
Elective Credit Hours: 4
Elective Credit Hours: 4

Spring

Elective Credit Hours: 4
Elective Credit Hours: 4

MGMT 4870 - Strategy and Policy Credit Hours: 4

Footnotes

Students should take an Inquiry course during their first year—IHSS 1200 Principals of Economics meets this requirement.
Students should take a HASS communication-intensive course during their first three semesters.

Concentrations

Students are encouraged to select one or more concentrations in order to provide further depth in an area of student interest. A concentration consists of three or four courses from each of the elective areas below, dependent upon the concentration. Students may choose to gain more extensive knowledge of the field by selecting additional courses in the area of concentration.