Acceptance Criteria - BS in Business Administration
Students may apply for admission to the business administration program when they enter the university as freshmen, transfer students, or later in their academic careers. To remain in the business administration
program and to be admitted to take restricted upper division (300/400 level) School of Management courses, students must satisfy the following requirements:
1. Successful completion of the management prerequisites with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 in the seven courses. If a course is repeated, the School of Management will only look at the grade earned the second
time, even if the grade is lower than the grade earned the first time. Students may not enroll in any major-related (including prerequisite) course for a third attempt. 2. Minimum transfer, overall, and UB GPA
of 2.5. 3. Junior standing (60 credit hours completed).
Acceptance Information
Current UB students and transfer students who did not enter UB as business administration majors may apply online for a change of major at any time.
However, in order to best facilitate proper course registration, students ought to complete the change of major request online as soon as they are considering
the business administration major.
Ten members of our faculty are recipients of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, which recognizes outstanding teaching ability through superb classroom performance. These scholars bring to their classes broad interests and current,
far-ranging knowledge. They are Professor Emeritus Ronald Huefner, Professor Arun Jain, Professor Emeritus Jerry Newman, Professor Emeritus Lewis Mandell, Associate Professor Kenneth Kim, Associate Professor Arlene
Hibschweiler, Associate Professor Frank Krzystofiak, Associate Professor Philip Perry, Associate Professor Natalie Simpson and Associate Professor Charles Lindsey.
The Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Professional Service have been presented to Diane Dittmar, Assistant Dean for Academic Programs, Jaqueline Molik Ghosen, Assistant Dean and Director of Communications,
and Arlene Bergwall, former Assistant Dean for Academic Programs. Samantha Calabrese was the 2015 recipient of the Professional Staff Senate Outstanding Service Award.
Please visit our department website for additional information about our faculty.
Practical Experience and Special Academic Opportunities
Awards and honors presented to majors include: Beta Gamma Sigma, the Challen Family Scholarship, the Charles Pearson Fellowship, the Michael Christopher Scholarship, the Hsinchun Chen & Hsaio-Hui Chow Scholarship, the Dean's List, the John G. and
Elizabeth Gibbons Scholarship, the Amena and Hatim Nakhoda & Family Scholarship, the Adriana I. Thaler Marketing Scholarship, the Stewart Study Abroad Scholarship, the Arthur and Louise Wasserman Scholarship, and
the Robert W. Yendell Family Scholarship.
Students may also participate in the Financial Management Association (FMA), the Minority Management Society (MMS), the Society for Human Resources in Management (SHRM), Women in Management (WIM), Buffalo Undergraduate
Consulting Club, the Management Information Systems Association (MISA), the Undergraduate Management Association (UMA), and many more; see our Student Clubs Directory for club websites and contact information.
See the UB Student Association for additional opportunities to become involved in the UB community.