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Nov 18, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Business Administration, B.A. - BDC program
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The Bachelor’s Degree Completion (BDC) program offers a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration (B.A. in BA). The BDC program offers a flexible, manageable, and academically meaningful way for students to complete their bachelor’s degree at Merrimack College. Tailored to returning students and adult learners, the BDC program offers a clear, well-defined, and achievable path to degree completion, with a career-focused and academically rigorous curriculum. This program prepares students for success in today’s diverse and dynamic workplace.
Distinct from the traditional full-time on-ground program, the BDC program features eight-week courses taught online. It also provides one-on-one academic advising, as well as professional and career development coaching. The B.A. in BA requires the completion of a minimum of 124 credits, including a minimum of:
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12 credits in the Professional Core
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28 credits in the Arts and Sciences Core
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64 credits in the Business Administration Major
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20 credits in Open Electives
Students may transfer a maximum of up to 90 credits for previous college coursework, prior learning, and/or professional equivalencies.
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The Professional Core
Comprising three courses (12 credits), the Professional Core is required of all students in the BDC program. The three Professional Core courses form the foundation of a general education requirement unique to this program, by including one course in the Humanities, one in the Social Sciences, and one in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).
All three courses emphasize strengthening the transferable skills employers desire: effective communication (oral and written), critical thinking, ethical judgment and decision making, effective teamwork, the ability to work independently, initiative, proactive planning, and real-world applications.
To create a homogeneous and uniquely Merrimack experience, all students in the BDC program will take these courses at Merrimack College. Students who have earned an associate’s degree are required to take only two Professional Core courses. Previous Merrimack College students who return to the College and have successfully completed the Philosophy and Religious and Theological Studies requirements in the Liberal Studies Core curriculum used in the day-school program do not have to complete HUM 1100 .
The Arts and Sciences Core
The BDC program allows students to complete their degree by choosing courses based on their interests and goals. All students in the BA degree will complete 28 credits in Applied Arts and Sciences Electives. The 7 courses (28 credits) in the Arts and Sciences Core must count as either STEM, Humanities or Social Science courses at Merrimack.
Business Elective Courses
Choose three courses from the following
Open Electives
Students must complete 20 credits of open electives. Open electives allow students to explore areas in the curriculum that interests them. Students can study further in their specialization, pursue allied areas of study, or explore entirely new fields. Some open elective credits may be transfer credits or credit for prior learning.
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