Pre-Business

Admission to the College of Business

Admission into the College of Business is required to earn a B.S. in Business Administration at UTC. Admission to the University does not ensure acceptance into the College of Business. Once University admission requirements are met, freshmen, transfer and current UTC students who intend to pursue the B.S. in Business Administration must enroll as pre-Business majors in one of the seven Business Administration concentrations:

Pre-Business: Accounting

Pre-Business: Entrepreneurship

Pre-Business: Finance: Business Finance

Pre-Business: Finance: Investments

Pre-Business: General Management

Pre-Business: Human Resource Management

Pre-Business: Industrial Management

Pre-Business: Marketing

Students must then meet the College of Business admission standard before being allowed to change from pre-Business majors to any of the Business Administration concentrations. Students who do not meet the admission standard for the College of Business may remain pre-Business majors until all criteria are met. The admission standards for the College of Business are as follows.

Students must complete each of the following courses (or approved equivalents) with a grade of C or better in each, and with a cumulative GPA of 2.50:
ACC 2010 Principles of Accounting I
ACC 2020 Principles of Accounting II
ECON 1010 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics
ECON 1020 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics
ENGL 1010 Rhetoric and Composition
ENGL 1020 Rhetoric and Composition
MGT 1000 Computers In Business
MGT 2110 Statistical Methods for Business I
MGT 2120 Statistical Methods for Business II
Acceptance of transfer and substitute credits to meet the admission standard will be determined by the College. A Student who transfers into the business program at UTC with any courses that are not considered comparable to the UTC curriculum or in which the grade earned is lower than a C (when required), will be required to take the appropriate UTC course.
Students must be formally accepted into the College of Business in order to take 3000- and 4000-level business courses, with the exception of BUS 3350 and MGT 3100 . Students pursuing a business minor or pursuing degrees that require specific upper level business courses (e.g., Sports Administration) are exempt from this policy.