Accounting, B.B.A.

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Minimum Total Credit Hours: 120

Minimum Upper-Division Hours: 40


Overall GPA - Combined and OU: 2.50

Major GPA - Combined and OU: 2.50

Upper-Division Businesses Courses GPA - Combined and OU: 2.50

Program Code: B001

To enroll in upper-division business courses, students must be certified for degree candidacy and meet all prerequisites.

Major Requirements

Any 3000- or 4000-level ACCT course will count in the Accounting major grade point average unless otherwise specified, including additional hours taken to fulfill electives.

A maximum of six hours of transfer work will apply toward the major.

ACCT 3113Intermediate Accounting I (must earn a C in this course)3
ACCT 3123Intermediate Accounting II3
ACCT 3313Cost Accounting3
ACCT 3603Income Tax Accounting I3
ACCT 3353Accounting Information Systems/Databases3
ACCT 4543Auditing3
Total Credit Hours18

ACCT 3023 and ACCT 3033 will not count towards the BBA or in the ACCT major GPA.

Required Courses

Core Requirements12
Legal Environment of Business
Principles of Organization and Management
Principles of Marketing
Business Strategy and Policy (to be taken last semester of senior year) 1
Additional Requirements8
Career Readiness I-Transitioning to the Workplace
Career Readiness II-Advancing in the Workplace
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Business Finance
Total Credit Hours20
1

Requires completion of all other business core courses prior to enrollment and permission from Price Academic Advising Services. 

General Education and College Requirements

Courses taken to fulfill the University General Education Requirements must be chosen from the approved General Education course list published at http://www.ou.edu/gened/courses.

UNIVERSITY-WIDE GENERAL EDUCATION (MINIMUM 40 HOURS) AND COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS
Core Area I: Symbolic and Oral Communication6-16
Principles of English Composition (Core I)
Principles of English Composition (Core I)
Expository Writing
Language (Core I) - Students who have completed two years of high school language are exempt from this general education requirement (0-10 hours).
Mathematics6
Functions and Modeling for Business, Life and Social Sciences (Core I) 1
Calculus I for Business, Life and Social Sciences (Core I) 1
Core Area II: Natural Science7
Natural Sciences - Choose two courses taken from the biological and/or physical sciences. The two courses must be from different disciplines and at least one course must include a laboratory component (Core II)
Core Area III: Social Science 2
P SC 1113American Federal Government (Core III)3
Core Area IV: Arts and Humanities12
United States to 1865 (Core IV)
United States, 1865 to the Present
Introduction to Business Ethics (Core IV: Western Culture)
Choose one course in each of the following fields (Core IV):
Artistic Forms 3
World Culture 3
Core Area V: First-Year Experience3
Choose one course
Basic Business 422
Fundamental Financial Accounting 5
Fundamental Managerial Accounting 5
Personal Computing Productivity Tools
Strategic Communication for Business Professionals 5
Principles of Economics-Macro (Core III-SS) 2, 5
Principles of Economics-Micro (Core III-SS) 2, 5
Elements of Statistics (Core I-M) 5
Computer-Based Information Systems 5
Total Credit Hours59-69
1

Substitute: MATH 1523 for MATH 1643MATH 1823 or MATH 1914 for MATH 1743.

2

Two courses, 6 hours, of Core III Social Science are required and one course must be P SC 1113ECON 1113 or ECON 1123 will meet the other 3 hours of this requirement.

3

It is recommended students take either World Culture or Artistic Forms at the 3000/4000 level to fulfill the university requirement of one upper-division course outside the major from the approved University-Wide General Education. It may also be satisfied in the upper-division or free elective categories. 

4

College requirement: courses are part of the degree candidacy application process that students must complete to earn degree candidacy and begin upper-division business courses.

5

Minimum grade of C required.

Free Electives

Electives to bring total applicable hours to the minimum total required for the degree including a minimum of 40 upper-division hours. B AD 2110, B AD 2113MGT 2013, and MKT 2013 will not count for credit toward a BBA.

Additional Requirements

  1. Candidates for the B.B.A. degree must complete their last 30 hours as resident students in Price College. However, if a candidate has completed the last 51 hours as a resident student at the University of Oklahoma, 9 of the last 60 hours may be taken at another university or by correspondence from OU. Students must take a minimum of 24 hours of their upper-division business courses in residence for the Bachelor of Business Administration degree.

  2. Pass/No Pass will not be accepted for any upper-division Business or General Education courses or any specifically required courses.

  3. Sixty hours, excluding physical education activity courses, must be taken at a baccalaureate degree-granting institution.

  4. A combined maximum of 8 hours of general military experience and flight instruction courses will count toward the required hours.

Suggested Semester Plan of Study

Additional hours may be required if remedial math or language is required. Please see an academic counselor to develop a plan of study.

Apply for permission to take upper division business courses the semester in which you will complete the prebusiness courses1.

This major normally requires three semesters of study beyond the business core requirements.

Plan of Study Grid
Freshman
First SemesterCredit Hours
ECON 1113 Principles of Economics-Macro (Core III) 1 3
ENGL 1113 Principles of English Composition (Core I) 3
MATH 1643 Functions and Modeling for Business, Life and Social Sciences 3
General Education Artistic Forms (Core IV) 3
First-Year Experience (Core V) 2 3
 Credit Hours15
Second Semester
B AD 1001 Personal Computing Productivity Tools 1
ECON 1123 Principles of Economics-Micro (Core III) 1 3
ENGL 1213
Principles of English Composition (Core I)
or Expository Writing
3
MATH 1743 Calculus I for Business, Life and Social Sciences (Core I) 3
MIS 2113 Computer-Based Information Systems 1 3
Natural Science (Core II) 2 3
 Credit Hours16
Sophomore
First Semester
ACCT 2113 Fundamental Financial Accounting 1 3
B AD 2091 Career Readiness I-Transitioning to the Workplace 1
ECON 2843 Elements of Statistics 1 3
HIST 1483
United States to 1865 (Core IV)
or United States, 1865 to the Present
3
B C 2813 Strategic Communication for Business Professionals 1 3
Free Elective 1
 Credit Hours14
Second Semester
ACCT 2123 Fundamental Managerial Accounting 3
ENT 2113 Innovation & Entrepreneurship 3
FIN 2303 Business Finance 3
PHIL 1273 Introduction to Business Ethics (Core IV: Western Civ.) 3
Natural Science with lab (2nd discipline) (Core II) 2 4
 Credit Hours16
Junior
First Semester
ACCT 3113 Intermediate Accounting I 3
ACCT 3353 Accounting Information Systems/Databases 3
L S 3323 Legal Environment of Business 3
MKT 3013 Principles of Marketing 3
B AD 3091 Career Readiness II-Advancing in the Workplace 1
Free Elective 3
 Credit Hours16
Second Semester
ACCT 3123 Intermediate Accounting II 3
ACCT 3603 Income Tax Accounting I 3
MGT 3013 Principles of Organization and Management 3
Free Elective 3
General Education World Culture (Core IV) 3
 Credit Hours15
Senior
First Semester
ACCT 3313 Cost Accounting 3
ACCT 4543 Auditing 3
P SC 1113 American Federal Government (Core III) 3
Free Elective - Upper-Division 3
Free Elective - Upper-Division 3
 Credit Hours15
Second Semester
B AD 4013 Business Strategy and Policy 3
Free Elective 7
Upper-Division General Education Elective 3 3
 Credit Hours13
 Total Credit Hours120
1

Prebusiness course. 

2

University-Wide General Education course, refer to online listing.

3

May be free elective if artistic form, world culture or science is 3000- or 4000-level.