Bachelor of Business Administration

"BBA" redirects here. For other uses, see BBA (disambiguation).

The Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is a bachelor's degree in commerce and business administration. In most universities, the degree is conferred upon a student after four years of full-time study (120 credit hours) in one or more areas of business concentrations; see below. The BBA program usually includes general business courses and advanced courses for specific concentrations. Note that the BSBA - a variant on this degree^{[citation needed]} - usually differs as regards to General educational requirements; see below for comment.

Program content

The degree is designed to give a broad knowledge of the functional areas of a company, and their interconnection, while also allowing for specialization in a particular area. BBA programs thus expose students to a variety of "core subjects", and, as above, allow students to specialize in a specific academic area; see MBA program content. The degree also develops the student's practical managerial skills, communication skills and business decision-making capability. Many programs thus incorporate training and practical experience, in the form of case projects, presentations, internships, industrial visits, and interaction with experts from the industry. For a comparison with other undergraduate degrees in business and management, see further under Bachelor's degree.

The core topics usually comprise:

Accounting Business law and Ethics Economics

Financial management Human resource management Information technology

Marketing Operations management Organizational behavior

Quantitative techniques (business statistics, financial mathematics, operations research) strategic management

The specializations include:

Accounting Entrepreneurship Finance Real Estate

Human Resource Management International Business Information technology Legal management

Design Management Management Management information systems Marketing

Operations management Supply chain management Tourism management

BSBA

As above the BSBA is a variant on the BBA; note however that the degree, which is relatively mathematically oriented, should not be directly equated with the BBA.

• BBA: General educational requirements emphasize humanities and social sciences (history, economics, and literature). Coverage of mathematics is generally business related, and is often limited to "Quantitative Applications for Business" (or Calculus 101 / for business) and one, or sometimes two, general statistics courses.

• BSBA: General educational requirements are Math and Science intensive. Students take (at least) two levels of pure calculus, and 2 higher level statistics courses, plus additional quantitative electives. Compare Bachelor of Business Science.

Accreditation

Particularly in the U.S., undergraduate Business Administration programs may be accredited, thus indicating that the school's educational curriculum meets specific quality standards; see Accreditation under MBA.

See also

• Bachelor of Accountancy
• Bachelor of Business
• Bachelor of Business Science
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Master of Accountancy
• Master of Business Administration