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professional degrees (computers, engineering, or business) earn between 30% and 60% more
than other graduates? Scroll down to learn about some innovative majors combining business
and liberal arts.
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mission statement of the Accounting, Business, and Economics Programs.
Click for the Degree Requirements Checklist for the following programs:
Students majoring in accounting or business should take
Accounting 1, macroeconomics, microeconomics, mathematical economics (prereq =
microeconomics), and statistics as soon as possible. Those are foundation
courses that will help you with other courses. Do not wait until you are a
senior to take them. Please note that many of the business core
courses (acc 1, acc 40, bus 50.1, bus 40.3, etc.) have no prerequisites and can be taken
at any time.
(1)
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B.S. in Business, Management, and Finance (BMF) checklist
(largest major in Brooklyn College).
(2) Click
here
for the
BBA Program
Requirements Checklist (concentrations in International Business, Management, and Marketing).
(3) Click
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for the B.S. in Accounting Degree Requirements Checklist.
(4) Click
here
for the BA in Economics Requirements.
(5) Click here
for the BS in Information Systems (joint program--CIS and Business)
(6) Click here for the MS in
Accounting Degree Requirements. Applicants
to this program must
have a B.S. degree in accounting from an accredited college with an overall GPA
of 3.0. In addition, applicants for the MS in Accounting must take the GMAT.
(7) Click
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for the BS/MPS in Business Information Systems. This is a new program and is perfect for
students interested in IS/IT. Earn a combined undergraduate/graduate
degree-- only 140 credits.
(8) Click
here for the MA in
Economics Requirements. We now have two options: Economic Analysis
or Global Business and Finance.
Here are some exciting minors you might
wish to consider: (1)
Business Law
(2)
Marketing (3)
Small Business Management and Urban Entrepreneurship
(4)
Financial Planning , (5) economics (see Eco Dept.), (6) accounting (see Eco
Dept.), (7)
consumer behavior (see Soc Dept), (8)
human resource development and management (see Soc Dept.), (9)
human resource management and diversity studies (see Soc. Dept.), (10)
Finance (see Math Dept.), and (11)
Business and Society (see Soc. Dept.).
For information about
the revolutionary and dynamic interdisciplinary major in Philosophy and Business, please
go to the Philosophy Department at 3308 Boylan Hall.
For information about
the exciting interdisciplinary FILM MARKETING major, click here or go to
the Film Department at 0314 Plaza Building.
Learn about the challenging,
rewarding, and exciting interdisciplinary major in Environmental Management. For
information, please click here.
For additional information, contact Dr. Tomkiewicz at 1411 Ingersoll Hall, or call
951-5357.
To learn about the innovative,
awesome, and unique interdisciplinary major in PUERTO RICAN/LATINO STUDIES and BUSINESS,
please click here or go to the Puerto Rican and Latino Studies
Department at 1205 Boylan Hall.
Would
you like to succeed in International Business? Please go to the Modern
Languages Department at 4239 Boylan and ask them about the interdisciplinary
major in Modern Languages and Business.
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the
(I) BS in BMF and the (II) BBA degrees.
Click below for the Business Program Newsletter
and here
for the Faculty Resource Guide.
Newsletters:
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2008 Newsletter
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2007 Newsletter, Spring
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(HEGIS Code: 021)
NOTE: In order to declare a major in BMF, a student must have completed at least 32 credits at Brooklyn College with an index of 2.20 or better. Students who enter Brooklyn College after earning at least 28 credits elsewhere, may declare a BMF major after earning at least 15 credits at Brooklyn College with an index of 2.20 or better.
Business Program, Department of Economics
Room 218 Whitehead Hall
(718) 951-5317
Brooklyn College, CUNY
Table of Contents
Degree Requirements
Answer to Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Program in Business, Management and
Finance?
What are the Advantages of the Program?
What is the Quality of the Faculty, Counselors and
Facilities?
Minimum Grades
Faculty Advisors
General Notes
Recommendations for Developing a Concentration
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS (49 -
53 Credits; A total of 16 Courses)
(Effective April 2008)
Students majoring in business should take Acc 1 and Bus/Eco 30.2 as soon as possible since they are prerequisites for other business core courses. Pease note that many of the business core courses have no prerequisites and can be taken any time.
1. Business Management:
2. Finance:
3. Quantitative Techniques:
Residence Requirement: At least 21 credits of the above courses, including the required capstone seminar course, must be completed at Brooklyn College.
Index Requirement: A scholastic index of at least 2.00 in courses satisfying departmental degree requirements.
Business 97.5 -- Business Internship: Fieldwork I
Business 97.6 -- Business Internship: Fieldwork II
Business 85.3 -- Independent Research in Business I
Business 85.4 -- Independent Research in Business II
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
This program is one of the most popular programs at Brooklyn College. It was developed by the Department of Economics in cooperation with a number of other departments to enable interested students to pursue a broad introduction to the field of Business and its major subfields combined with a strong liberal arts education. The program includes courses in Management, Finance, Marketing, Quantitative Techniques, Accounting, Economics, Business Law, and Ethics or Business Communications, with optional courses in other areas. Capstone seminars are offered in Business Management and Policy, Business Finance, Marketing Research and Computer-Assisted Management Games. These seminars are designed to simulate the atmosphere and decision-making behaviors found in major corporate organizations and board rooms. Knowledge and use of computers will be emphasized throughout the curriculum to familiarize you with what has now become the essential information medium and resource in the business world. (Brooklyn College has extensive computer facilities for its instructional programs, to which you are first introduced through the core curriculum.) Optional internships are also available to selected upper-division students in the program. These afford first-hand experience in the business and corporate world and enable you to earn elective credit under the direct supervision of a faculty member and an employer.
The business world wants employees who communicate well, think creatively, know how to deal with people, and have technical skills. The B.B.A. degree offered at business schools often produces a graduate with too many applied courses and too few courses that teach one to communicate effectively or think creatively. The BMF major at Brooklyn College, on the other hand, combines a strong liberal arts base with a reasonable number of theoretical and applied business courses and thus produces a well-rounded graduate with marketable skills. It responds to the strong demand today by major businesses for graduates who are not only familiar with fundamental business concepts but are literate and have well-developed communication, analytical, and quantitative skills. The liberal arts component of the program is largely provided by Brooklyn College's core curriculum, which has received national acclaim and through which you can develop a breadth of knowledge and intellectual skills that will enrich and expand your major studies. Business firms appreciate that a Brooklyn College degree signifies a broad grounding in the liberal arts, and not just technical training.
Thus, the Bachelor of Science in Business, Management and Finance offers a balanced and flexible alternative to more narrowly specialized undergraduate programs in business offered at other colleges. It is designed to equip you for a wide range of career choices, whether in business or other areas, as well as for advanced or professional studies. Businesses today know that students with a sound liberal arts education will be able to continue the learning process on the job and that they can better adapt to new situations and challenges.
The BMF degree is a general degree but students are advised and encouraged to create their own concentrations (see section on "Recommendations for Developing a Concentration").
In addition to the educational advantages of the program, there are both immediate financial advantages and long-range career advantages. In the increasingly, and often prohibitively, expensive world of higher education today, Brooklyn College's program is available to you at a comparatively low tuition cost, yet with no compromise in academic quality. You will not have to mortgage your future earnings to complete this program, a bit of business wisdom that you will greatly appreciate later on. Also, considerable financial assistance is available to you from a variety of sources, depending on your financial eligibility.
New York City is the business and financial capital of the world. The program in Business, Management and Finance is attuned to this fortunate circumstance and can provide access for you to the abundant career opportunities available, particularly in such business and service industries as Banking, Retailing, Finance, Marketing, Real Estate, Insurance, High Technology, Securities, Theater, Broadcasting, Sports Management, and the like. There is a unique advantage in exploring these career options in the New York environment while you are completing your baccalaureate degree. All indications are that the economy of the metropolitan region will continue its already rapid transformation into a sophisticated mix of employment possibilities demanding rigorous academic credentials. Brooklyn College is geared to provide the academic preparation that will give you a strong headstart in this highly competitive marketplace. Indeed, according to a recent article in Business Week, undergraduate students graduating with a major in Business and Management had the second highest starting salaries, slightly behind Computer and Engineering majors.
The program requires mastery by the student of
techniques essential to solving business problems from the fields of: economics,
statistics, mathematics, management, marketing, law, finance, accounting, and computer
science. Its breadth is virtually unmatched in undergraduate programs in business schools.
We have a first-rate faculty both in the liberal arts and in business and related areas.Many of our faculty have combined their academic training and expertise with significant experience in the business world. Working professionals in various business fields teach several of the specialized courses.For many years, our faculty has been instrumental in placing Brooklyn College graduates in successful career situations and opportunities, evidenced by the achievements of over 100,000 alumni in every field of endeavor throughout the country. our active alumni network is helpful to our current graduates in developing contacts in business and the professions.
The Business Program faculty is comprised of well-trained and experienced educators who are dedicated to the achievement of excellence in undergraduate instruction. The faculty has a distinguished record of professional and scholarly activity, including in the last ten years more than 300 books, monographs, and articles in professional publications. Members of the faculty have given testimony to the Joint Economic Committee and other committees of the U.S.Congress; worked for the United Nations; consulted with the World Bank; received research grants from federal, state and city government agencies and private foundations; consulted with numerous metropolitan finance and business firms; worked for Federal Reserve Banks, law firms, labor arbitration panels and large accounting firms; consulted with the U.S. Treasury and other federal agencies; served in executive roles in state, national and international professional societies; managed arts and cultural organizations; and were invited to read research papers at many international conferences.
Brooklyn College reinforces this high quality academic program with personal career counseling services that seek to match your interests and abilities with the needs and opportunities in major businesses, industries, and other professional areas. These services include a special co-curricular Corporate Careers Program which presents informal seminars with high-level executives of large companies in the New York area (including corporate headquarters), advises you on the career opportunities and requirements in those companies or industries, and makes available to you personal training in how best to exploit your employment potential. In addressing your career interests and needs, the Business program also serves the needs of the business community, both in Brooklyn and beyond.
The Economics Department maintains free tutoring services in its Nathan Schmukler Investment Library, Room 202 Whitehead Hall. This Library can be used as a social lounge, to read and study, or to consult either the Graduate Assistants or the Volunteer Peer tutors stationed there. The Business Seminar Room (201 Whitehead Hall), an elaborately furnished paneled conference room, is the site for the Business Seminar courses required for the BMF degree. These are capstone courses which integrate, usually through casework and computer analysis, the techniques and principles studied in prior course work.
The Chair, the Deputy Chairs and the entire full-time faculty maintain regular posted ours during which they can be consulted to render counsel to students inquiring about its programs and continuing advice to those already pursuing a degree offered by the department.
All candidates for the degree must have at least a 2.0 average in all courses presented in fulfillment of the degree requirements. This does not mean that you must get a "C" or better in every single business course. You can get a "D-" in a business course and still get credit toward the major. It is your overall Business, Management and Finance index that matters. This refers only to the courses (or their equivalents) listed as requirements for the BMF degree. It does not include the required English, Modern Language and Core Studies requirements applicable for all degrees in the college, or the free electives necessary to make up the remaining required 120 credits.
Faculty members of the Department stand ready to assist you in constructing a plan of future courses. The regular staff office hours of each Economics Department faculty member is posted on his/her staff office door in Whitehead Hall. If you need a Faculty Advisor at a particular time, the Department office, Room 218 Whitehead Hall, will inform you who is available for your convenience.
The major advisors for the Business program include Dr. Friedman (Deputy Chair of Business), Dr. Bell, Dr. Langbert, Dr. Lewis, Dr. Amoo, Dr. Bhattacharya, Dr. Hirakubo, Dr. Fogel, Dr. Connell, Dr. Lopez-Pumarejo, Dr. Peng, Dr. Queneau, and Dr. Sardy.
1. Prior to registration each semester, the Department of Economics posts courses and sections offered with the name of each assigned instructor.
2. Each semester, the Department of Economics prepares an official book list with each instructor's required textbooks. The book list is always available in the Economics Department office.
3. Students are strongly encouraged to acquire a personal computer and familiarize themselves with such frequently used business tools as: word processing, spreadsheets, electronic mail, and the world wide web.
Although the BMF degree is a general degree in business administration, students are strongly urged to build up their knowledge in a particular area of interest. This can be accomplished by creating your own unofficial concentration or by minors. (Please note that twelve advanced credits in any discipline constitutes an unofficial minor.) For example, BMF students may choose to develop additional expertise or minor in Finance, Marketing, Management, Accounting, or Economics. Other related disciplines students might wish to concentrate or minor in, and combine with business, include Africana Studies, Computer and Information Science, English, Film, Health and Nutrition Sciences, History, Mathematics, Modern Language, Philosophy, Psychology, Puerto Rican/Latino Studies, Sociology, or Television and Radio. In fact, we have joint majors with several of the above areas. Currently, the highest paid fields in the business area are Finance and Computer Information Systems. All business students should build up their computer skills, if they wish to find a financially-rewarding position. Moreover, since African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian- Americans are three extremely important market segments, understanding their needs and cultures is very important to businesses that wish to thrive in today's highly competitive marketplace.
Students with a special interest in Accounting, Computer Information Systems, Financial Management, or Marketing can select appropriate Tier III, Tier IV, and elective courses to strengthen their knowledge in a particular area of interest and may choose to take a few additional courses beyond the BMF requirements in order to fortify their skills. The following are recommended for students who wish to have specialized knowledge in one particular area, in addition to general knowledge of business administration.
Students with special interest in:
(1) Accounting: take Accounting 2, Accounting 4, Accounting 21,
Accounting 30, Business 80.2.
(2) Computers: take Bus/Eco 30.3, Business 70.3, Business
31.5/CIS 3.2, Business 80.4, and CIS 13.2.
(3) Finance: take Business 70.3, Business
70.4, Business 70.5, Economics 70.1,
Business/Economics 70.7, Math 74.1, Bus/Eco 30.3, Business 80.2, Economics
76.1, Business
76.4.
(4) Management: take Business 40.4, Business
50.3, Business 50.4, Business
50.5, Business 50.8, Sociology 43.2, Business 80.1 or 80.3.
(5) Marketing: take Business 50.7, Business 50.9,
Business 76.4, Business 31.5, Business 80.4, and TV/R 19.
(II) The BBA Degree
B.B.A.
Degree with Three Concentrations
56 to 61 Credits
DEGREE
REQUIREMENTS
(Effective April 2007)
All BBA Students must complete the following business core requirements:
The
Business Core (14 courses; 44-46 credits):
Students must choose one concentration (only one is permitted).
(A) Students Concentrating in International Business -- 12 additional
credits (4 courses)
a) Take all of the following (3 courses):
b) Plus a minimum of one
course (3 credits) from the following list of electives:
(B) Students Concentrating in
Management -- 14-15 additional
credits (5 courses)
a) Take all of the following (3 courses):
b) Plus a minimum of one
course (2-3 credits) from the following list of electives:
(C) Students Concentrating in
Marketing --15 additional
credits (5 courses)
a) Take all of the following (3 courses):
b) Plus a minimum of one
course (3 credits) from the following list of electives: