Curriculum that ensures you’ve mastered the things employers want you to know.
At WGU, we design our curriculum to be timely, relevant, and practical—all to ensure your degree is proof you really know your stuff.
Every course focuses on a set of clearly defined competencies that you must prove you’ve learned—through tests, papers, projects, or other assessments.
Demonstrating mastery is how you pass a course, so a Bachelor of Science Business Administration, Management degree from WGU is proof that you've shown excellence at what it takes to be successful in your career.
What you learn in this degree program will often be directly applicable the next day at work—and what you’re doing at work will frequently inform the work you’re doing in your courses. It’s all about real-world applicability so every moment spent studying is time well spent.
Courses fulfilled by your associate's degree.
This is an unofficial estimate of your transferable credits. You may receive more or less credits depending upon the specific courses taken to complete your degree and other credits you may have.
Below are the anticipated courses that will be fulfilled based on your indication that you have earned an associate's degree. During the enrollment process this information will be verified.
Applied Probability and Statistics
English Composition I
Introduction to Communication
Principles of Economics
Critical Thinking and Logic
English Composition II
Applied Algebra
Introduction to Sociology
Integrated Physical Sciences
Survey of United States History
Introduction to Humanities
Courses in this program.
The online management degree program is composed of the following courses. Some may be waived through transfer from your previous college experience. The rest you will typically complete one at a time as you make your way through your program, working with your Program Mentor each term to build your personalized Degree Plan. You’ll work through each course as quickly as you can study and learn the material. As soon as you’re ready, you’ll pass the assessment, complete the course, and move on. This means you can finish as many courses as you're able in a term at no additional cost.
The Business Management degree program allows students to earn valuable micro-credentials on their path to a degree. Students choose the Business Management degree program, the Marketing Emphasis, or the Healthcare Management Emphasis. Each of these programs allow you to earn the business essentials, applied business skills, and human resource management micro-credentials. Each of the emphasis options come with an additional micro-credential and three additional courses.
Additional Marketing Emphasis courses and micro-credential: Marketing Applications, Digital Marketing, and Sales Management. Marketing micro-credential.
Additional Healthcare Emphasis courses and micro-credential: Technology Applications in Healthcare, Healthcare Values and Ethics, and Healthcare Delivery Systems, Regulation, and Compliance. Healthcare management micro-credential.
Best Practices in Management: Projects, Staffing, Scheduling, and Budgeting
Fundamentals for Success in Business
Introduction to Spreadsheets
Information Technology Management Essentials
Finance Skills for Managers
Concepts in Marketing, Sales, and Customer Contact
Business Environment Applications I: Business Structures and Legal Environment
Business Environment Applications II: Process, Logistics, and Operations
Managing in a Global Business Environment
Innovative and Strategic Thinking
Emotional and Cultural Intelligence
Business Core Capstone: An Integrated Application
Principles of Financial and Managerial Accounting
Applied Probability and Statistics
Introduction to Communication
Critical Thinking and Logic
Introduction to Sociology
Integrated Physical Sciences
Survey of United States History
Introduction to Humanities
Introduction to Human Resource Management
Workforce Planning: Recruitment and Selection
Compensation and Benefits
Quantitative Analysis For Business
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Business Management Tasks
Business Management Capstone Written Project
Plan to work hard: Program requirements and expectations.
Special requirements for this program:
Capstone project: At the end of your program, you will complete a capstone project that represents the culmination of all your hard work—a project that allows you to take what you’ve learned and apply it to a real-world situation, proposing a solution to an actual issue you face in your place of business.
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Quality you can trust: Curriculum developed with guidance from business leaders and experts.
Program councils—teams of industry and academic experts—collaborate in the creation of our programs, providing input on what a successful graduate needs to have mastered.
