The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) requires that the majority of the professional course work in various degree programs be taken during a student's junior and senior years.
NIU's College of Business offers six undergraduate programs in Accountancy, Business Administration, Finance, Management, Marketing, and Operations & Information Management. To enroll in UBUS 310 (the first upper-level business course required) every student must:
Be in Junior standing (have at least 60 semester hours completed);
Have a minimum 2.75 Cumulative GPA (NIU & Transfer GPA); and
Complete the following TEN prerequisite courses (with at least a "C" in ACCY 206, ACCY 207, MGMT 217, and UBUS 223--only TWO attempts allowed per course):
ACCY 206, Introduction to Financial Accounting
ACCY 207, Introduction to Cost Management
MGMT 217, Legal Environment of Business
UBUS 223, Introduction to Business Statistics
ECON 260, Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 261, Principles of Macroeconomics
ENGL 104, Rhetoric and Composition II
OR ENGL 105, Rhetoric and Composition
MATH 211, Calculus for Business and Social Science
OR MATH 229, Calculus I
PSYC 102, Introduction to Psychology
Choose ONE COURSE from the following:
ANTH 120, Introduction to Anthropology
GEOG 202, World Regional Geography
GEOG 204, Geography of Economic Activities
HIST 171, The World Since 1500
PHIL 170, World Religions
PHIL 231, Contemporary Moral Issues
POLS 260, Foreign & Comparative Politics
SOCI 170, Introduction to Sociology
WOMS 235, Women Across Cultures and Centuries
In addition to the 2.75 GPA requirement to enroll in UBUS 310, individual departments may have a current retention policy to continue in their upper-level program, including a higher GPA requirement. Meet with an advisor for further information.
Accountancy majors please (click here) for specific admission criteria to enroll in any 300 or 400-level accountancy courses.
