If you’re interested in a career in financial services, a concentration in Accounting is for you. You’ll learn to assess and report on the profitability and financial health of different kinds of organizations, helping you become a trusted advisor that any business can rely on. This concentration is a great choice if you:

• Can quickly and accurately analyze facts and figures
• Have great organizational skills
• Enjoy problem-solving
• Have a keen eye for detail

Under our Economics and Finance concentration, you’ll develop the necessary skills for a career as a financial analyst, financial services sales agent, financial examiner or financial manager. Your coursework will cover topics such as:

• Single and multivariable derivatives
• Forecasting statistics
• Managerial economics
• Banking
• Financial markets
• Investment analysis

Adding the financial planning concentration to your online business degree will help you take the next steps and further your career in the financial planning field. Having the certification for financial planning will make you more marketable to future employees.

You will take courses in:

• Fundamentals of Financial Planning
• Insurance
• Investment Income
• Income Tax
• Retirements
• Estate

Southern Wesleyan University has been approved by Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) to provide a new financial planning in the BSBA undergraduate program

If you’re looking for an immersion into the business world, you can take any combination of at least four (4) courses totaling 12 hours (minimum) from our approved business courses or via accepted transfer credit. Approved classes designated with prefixes such as ACCT, BUSI, ECON, MKMT and MGMT, beyond core requirements, may be used to fulfill the 12 hours of concentration courses and help you dive into the business world.

With a concentration in Human Resource Management, you’ll learn best practices for the development and supervision of an organization’s employees. Choose this path if you:

• Enjoy interacting with and serving people at all levels of an organization
• Want to develop your problem-solving skills
• Like to manage multiple needs of individual employees or groups

Our BSBA with Human Resource Management Concentration fully aligns with the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) HR Curriculum Guidebook and Templates. Throughout the world, 340 programs in 259 educational institutions have been acknowledged by SHRM as being in alignment with its suggested guides and templates. The HR Curriculum Guidebook and Templates were developed by SHRM to define the minimum HR content areas that should be studied by HR students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

The concentration in International Business equips you with the cultural and global framework necessary to succeed in the international marketplace. Choose this path if you:

• Enjoy interacting with and serving people from different cultural backgrounds
• Want to develop your problem-solving skills
• Plan to operate in cross-cultural or international business environments

Under our Management concentration, you’ll learn to make sound decisions and oversee operations while developing the skills necessary to advance to the highest levels of any business.

The Management concentration is a great choice if you:

• Enjoy managing processes, resources and people
• Have or want to develop problem-solving skills
• Look for flexibility and like to adapt to different environments

Our Marketing concentration will help prepare you for one of the most versatile career paths. This program takes a deep dive into market research, integrated marketing communications and brand strategy. The result? You’ll become a creative, problem-solving professional that’s ready to help organizations everywhere tell their stories.

Our Supply Chain Management concentration will teach you how to become a sourcing and logistics expert. Help companies optimize their processes and find ways to become more profitable. You’ll learn firsthand how suppliers, intermediaries, third-party providers and customers influence the management of supply and demand both within and across companies.

The BSBA with a Supply Chain Management concentration is a great choice if you:

• Have an interest in managing processes and materials in a supply chain
• Have or want to develop analytical and problem-solving skills
• Enjoy planning and coordinating functions within an organization

• Submission of a completed application
• $25 application fee
• An official high school transcript if transferring fewer than 15 credit hours from accredited colleges or universities. Minimum high school cumulative grade point average of 2.0.
• Home school students must provide evidence of membership in an approved home school association and provide an official transcript with a 2.0 grade point average on a 4.0 scale; otherwise, applicant must submit GED scores.
• Transfer students who have attended other colleges or universities must provide official transcripts from each school attended. Students must have earned a minimum 2.0 cumulative GPA for all college work attempted.
• Submission of all military transcripts, if applicable.
• International transcripts must be evaluated by an approved agency. American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers can do this evaluation, and National Association of Credential Evaluation Services provides a list of approved agencies. From the NACES list, Southern Wesleyan recommends using World Education Services or Josef Silny.
• Applicants for whom English is a second language must meet the official TOEFL score of at least 550 (paper test), 213 (computer test), or demonstrate equivalent evidence of proficiency in English, such as an overall band score of 6.0 or higher on the IELTS test.
• Satisfactory interview with a designated committee or academic division, if required.

Learn more about transfer credits from accredited colleges and universities.

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