Business

www.bus.umich.edu/bba

3-Year BBA Program. The 3-year program is the standard program under which a University of Michigan student studies business. Students who wish to earn a Bachelor of Business Administration may apply to the Stephen M. Ross School of Business after completion of their freshman year. Sophomore standing with at least 27 transferable credits earned in college courses is a requirement for admission. Applications for admission are due in March of the student’s freshman year. Please see the online application (www.bus.umich.edu/bba) for specific instructions.

Students may enter in Fall Term only. The Admissions Committee begins to consider applications in mid-May for the Fall Term entering class. The deadline for applications is March 31. Applications are considered only after completed applicationd have been received. Final admission decisions will be made after second term grades have been reported. The Ross School of Business Admissions Committee will access second term grades from the Office of the Registrar. Applications are only available online.

(www.bus.umich.edu/bba) .

If a student wishes to apply to the 3-year program at the Ross School of Business, the following prerequisite courses are required: Calculus, the First-Year Writing Requirement, and ECON 101. These courses must be completed by a student’s second term at UM—Ann Arbor.

Admission is highly competitive. The average GPA of the incoming BBA class is 3.6. The application is reviewed as a whole. Strength of the overall academic schedule, activities after high school and required essays (a part of the application) play an important role in choosing among applicants with similar academic credentials.

Consideration for admission requires evidence that a minimum of 27 transferable credits earned in college courses from the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor will be completed by the second semester in college. The requirement in Calculus may be completed by MATH 115 or its equivalent and the requirement in microeconomics may be completed by ECON 101 or its equivalent. The requirement in composition may be completed by ENGLISH 124, 125, or any other course specified by the Sweetland Writing Center as satisfying the First-Year Writing Requirement. Honors students may substitute GTBOOKS 191 or 192.

A thoughtfully planned, balanced liberal arts program in addition to the required courses in Calculus, ECON 101 and the freshman writing requirement is acceptable preparation for admission.

Students currently attending the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor who are accepted to the BBA program may transfer a maximum of 45 credits. Guidelines for course work that will transfer to the BBA program can be found in the BBA Bulletin on the Business School’s website. Transfer of credits are granted only for courses where the student earns a grade of C or better. Any course in which the final grade earned is a C— or lower will not be acceptable for transfer.

Preferred Admissions BBA Program. The Preferred Admissions program is a small, highly selective program that allows students to apply to the BBA program at the Ross School of Business during their senior year of high school. Students who are accepted by the Ross School of Business out of high school are not directly admitted into the Ross School of Business. They become a “preferred admit.” This means the student is an LS&A student, a student in the College of Engineering, a student in the School of Art & Design, or a student in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance but is given a set of requirements to meet during his or her freshman year. When these requirements are successfully met, the student will automatically become a Ross School of Business student at the end of the freshman year when he or she notifies the Ross School of his or her continued interest.

If a student does not apply or is not accepted into the Preferred Admissions Program, this does not hurt his or her chances of being accepted into the 3-year program. If a student is not admitted into the Ross School of Business for the Preferred Admissions program, he or she is encouraged to apply again at the end of his or her freshman year on March 31 for admission into the 3-year program.

 

Distribution and Foreign Language Requirements

Ross distribution and foreign language requirements are similar to the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LS&A), with some exceptions which are noted below. You should refer to the LS&A online Course Guide (which can be found at www.lsa.umich.edu/cg)  to see if a course meets the requirements for a distribution area. Courses have the following designation: natural science (NS), social science (SS), humanities (HU), mathematical and symbolic analysis (MSA) or excluded from distribution (Excl). In selecting courses, note the Ross restrictions which follow.

Complete three of the following four requirements:

  1. Foreign Language (fourth-term proficiency in a language other than English). Fourth-term proficiency in a foreign language is determined by successful completion of a proficiency examination administered by U-M Advising or completion of a fourth-semester college-level foreign language course. AP course work which meets fourth-term proficiency fulfills this requirement. See the LS&A Bulletin for further language details. (www.lsa.umich.edu) 0-20 crs
  2. Humanities (HU) 9 crs 
  3. Natural Sciences (NS) and/or Mathematical and Symbolic Analysis (MSA) 9 crs
  4. Social Sciences (SS) (excludes ECON 101 & 102) 9 crs