The 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 UMass Amherst classes offered on-campus, online via UWW, or a combination thereof. (Please note that tuition and fees for online classes via UWW differ from tuition and fees for on-campus classes.)
- Space in the on-campus minor classes is limited; students should plan to take the on-campus requirements over several semesters or with a combination of UWW online offerings.
- 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. ACCOUNTNG 233 must be completed at UMass Amherst.
- 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. Use the list of options provided below that will best align with your major.)
- CE-ENGIN 260: Probability & Statistics in Civil Engineering
- COMPSCI 240: Reasoning Under Uncertainty
- M&I-ENG 273: Probability and Statistic
- PUBHLTH 223: Introduction to Biostatistics for Public Health
- PUBHLTH 490R: Introduction to Statistical Computing
- PSYCH 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
How do I indicate my interest to pursue the Business Minor?
Students interested in pursuing the Business Minor beginning in the Fall of 2021 must submit the Intention to Declare the Business Minor form before February 22, 2021. Transfer students entering UMass Amherst after February 22, 2021 and before September 1, 2021, should contact the Isenberg Undergraduate Programs Office.
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 at undergrad@isenberg.umass.edu or 413-545-5610 to speak with an operations team member.