Business Minor
The Business minor provides an opportunity for non-Isenberg majors to complement their academic and professional interests. This interdisciplinary minor will provide students with a foundation in the areas of accounting, finance, management, marketing, and operations & information management. Students will acquire skills in decision making, organizational behavior, strategy, project management, and supply-chain management.
Requirements
- Requirements can be fulfilled through on-campus or online offerings at UMass Amherst.
- At least three of the five courses must be completed through the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst. Students must receive prior approval from the Isenberg Undergraduate Programs Office to take courses at another institution.
- Academic minors are declared in SPIRE when the course work for the minor has been completed with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0.
- Required courses may not be taken Pass/Fail.
- Required courses:
ACCOUNTNG 233: Financial and Managerial Accounting Principles
FINANCE 301: Corporate Finance (Required prerequisite is ACCOUNTNG 233)
MANAGMNT 301: Principles of Management
MARKETNG 301: Fundamentals of Marketing
OIM 301: Introduction to Operations Management (Required prerequisite is Statistics. Please use the list of Statistics class options below that will best align with your major.)
- CE-ENGIN 260: Probability & Statistics in Civil Engineering
- COMPSCI 240: Reasoning Under Uncertainty
- PUBHLTH 223: Introduction to Biostatistics for Public Health
- PUBHLTH 490R: Introduction to Statistical Computing
- RPSYCH 240: Statistics in Psychology
- RES-ECON 212: Intro Stats/Soc Sci
- RES-ECON 213: Intermediate Statistics for Business and Economics
- SOCIOL 212: Elementary Statistics
- STATISTC C240: Intro to Statistics
- STATISTC C297F: Special Topics-Fundamental Concepts of Statistics
- STATISTC 515: Statistics
- STATISTC 516: Statistics
- STATISTC 525: Regression & Analysis of Variance
How do I indicate my interest to pursue the Business Minor?
Students interested in pursuing the Business Minor should submit the Intention to Declare the Business Minor form.
Restrictions
Business Minors will not have access to Isenberg academic advisors, Chase Career Center coaches, the Business Communication Center, or Isenberg Works.
Questions
Please contact the Isenberg Undergraduate Programs Office to speak with an operations team member.
Email: undergrad@isenberg.umass.edu
Phone: 413-545-5610
Location: Isenberg Business Innovation Hub, N230
