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JMU Major: Management
Description of the Major | Degrees Offered | Concentrations | Minors |
Declaring the Major | Progressing in the Major

Description of the Major

Management skills are broadly applicable and our graduates go on to a wide range of professions in both the public and private sector. The major is also designed to help those thinking of starting their own business or aiding a family business. Finally, many students find the broad business training of the management major a helpful foundation for future graduate study.

Degrees Offered

B.B.A.

Concentrations

Human Resource Management
Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Minors

None

Declaring the Major

New Freshmen and Transfer Students
Declare the management major when you register for orientation. Any student admitted to JMU can declare any major offered by the College of Business. However students are not formally admitted into the College of Business until certain requirements are met as listed in the section below "Progressing in the Major."

Currently Enrolled Major Changers
If you wish to change your major to management you must be in good academic standing (have a cumulative grade point average of 2.00 or higher) on the date you submit a "Change or Declaration of Major" form, which is available in the Academic Services Center located in Zane Showker Hall, room 205. Declaring a College of Business major does not guarantee full admission to the major. You will not be fully admitted to the major until requirements are met as listed below.

Progressing in the Major

Full Admission to the College of Business
Declaring a business major does not guarantee full admission to the College of Business. You must formally apply for full admission to the College of Business by submitting an application for admission during the semester in which you are completing the lower-level B.B.A. core courses.

Students are formally admitted into the College of Business as a B.B.A. degree seeking major and permitted to register for COB 300, Integrated Functional Systems, when the following requirements are met:

  1. A completed application for admission into the College of Business is submitted to the College of Business Academic Services Center located in 205 Zane Showker Hall, according to the following schedule:

    • October 1 for upcoming spring semester

    • March 1 for the upcoming summer session and fall semesters

  2. All 10 lower-level Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) core courses are successfully completed as follows:

    • First Year (It is recommended that you complete the following five B.B.A. core courses by the end of the freshman year):

      • COB 191. Business Statistics or Math 220. Elementary Statistics

      • COB 204. Computer Information Systems

      • GECON 200. General Education Macroeconomics

      • ECON 201. Microeconomics

      • MATH 205. Introductory Calculus or MATH 235. Calculus I

    • Second Year (It is recommended that you complete the following five B.B.A. core courses by the end of your sophomore year):

      • COB 202. Interpersonal Skills

      • COB 218. Legal Environment of Business

      • COB 241. Financial Accounting

      • COB 242. Managerial Accounting

      • COB 291. Introduction to Management Science

  3. Earn a cumulative GPA of 2.7 in the B.B.A. lower-level core courses (excluding MATH 205 or MATH 235)

    The B.B.A. core GPA is calculated using grades earned in the B.B.A. lower-level core courses excluding calculus (MATH 205 or MATH 235). Only grades earned at JMU will be used. The university policy for calculating repeat-credit and repeat-forgiveness will be followed.

    Students with a 2.7 B.B.A. core GPA are assured admission into the College of Business and COB 300. Students who meet all of the requirements above but fail to achieve a 2.7 B.B.A. core GPA will be admitted to the College of Business and COB 300 based on B.B.A. core GPA ranking, and pending resources and space availability.

  4. Admission is granted within one calendar year of the applicant's first application. Two applications, in consecutive semesters of enrollment, are permitted.