Admission Requirements
To be considered for admission to the Online B.A. in Business Administration degree-completion
program, at the time of application, students must have completed a minimum of:
- 60* transferable semester units from one or more community colleges or other accredited
institutions (including 30 semester units [45 quarter units] in CSU-approved general education
[GE] coursework) completed two semesters prior to transfer.
- A 2.50 cumulative grade-point average. Returning CSUF students must have a 2.0 cumulative grade-point average.
- Good academic standing at the last college or university attended.
- Successful completion of the “Golden Four” general education requirements with a grade of C- or higher two semesters prior to transfer:
Communication
Thinking
/Quantitative Reasoning
- At the time of application, successful completion (final grades of C or higher on official transcripts) of at least four of the following seven Lower-Division Business Core Courses — two of which must be Business Writing and Business Calculus. Any remaining Lower-Division Business Core Courses not completed at the time of admission must be completed within one year of starting the Online Business program.
The required transfer coursework can also be achieved by earning an Associate Degree for Transfer (ADT) in Business Administration from a California Community College.
* The Online Business degree-completion program comprises 54 upper-division semester units (18 courses). Cal State Fullerton requires a minimum of 120 units to be eligible for graduation; therefore, to meet graduation requirements, students must transfer 60 units, must complete the 6 American Institutions units required by the State of California for graduation (3 units of American History and 3 units of American Government), and must complete any outstanding lower-division general education and/or business core courses at a local community college. For a complete list of graduation requirements, please consult the University Catalog.
To see if courses from your community college will transfer to Cal State Fullerton,
you can use ASSIST, a database that houses the transfer agreements between all California community
colleges and California public universities. Contact the advising and counseling center
at your college for assistance.
“I apply everything that I learned in class to my job, and it really helped me understand what I did right and what I did wrong.”
- David Holder, BABA alum
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