Overview and Award Outcomes
Overview
The Business Transfer Pathway AS offers students a powerful option: the opportunity to complete an Associate of Science degree with course credits that directly transfer to designated Business bachelor’s degree programs at Minnesota State universities. The curriculum has been specifically designed so that students completing this pathway degree and transferring to one of the seven Minnesota State universities* enter the university with junior-year status. All courses in the Transfer Pathway associate degree will directly transfer and apply to the designated bachelor’s degree programs in a related field.
*Universities within the Minnesota State system include Bemidji State University; Metropolitan State University; Minnesota State University, Mankato; Minnesota State University Moorhead; Southwest Minnesota State University; St. Cloud State University, and Winona State University.
Award Outcomes
Demonstrate effective business communication skills
Demonstrate interpersonal skills
Demonstrate team building skills
Demonstrate professional business behavior
Solve business problems using critical thinking techniques
Apply marketing concepts and strategies to business decision making
Apply management concepts to business problems
Analyze business problems using financial concepts
Career Opportunities
This occupational area includes the following career titles: Business Manager or Business Specialist to name a few. Business Managers work within banks, insurance companies, healthcare facilities, government agencies, educational institutions, retail industries, and various service and manufacturing businesses.
Program Requirements
Technical Studies Required 29 Credits
General Education Required 26 Credits
General Education Elective 5 Credits
Choose five credits from two of the following Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC) Goal Areas: 3, 7, 8, or 10
Technical Studies Elective 0 Credits
Total Associate of Science Degree Credits 60
Semester Sequence
Offered at Brooklyn Park and Eden Prairie
Second Semester
| ACCT2155 | Financial Accounting | 4 |
| BUSN1140 | Business Law | 3 |
| ECON1200 | Principles of Microeconomics | 3 |
| PHIL1200 | Ethics | 3 |
| Choose three credits from MnTC Goal Areas 3, 7, 8, or 10 | 3 |
Fourth Semester
| ACCT2221 | Managerial Accounting | 4 |
| COMM1280 | Public Speaking | 3 |
| ECON1300 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
| MATH1250 | Introduction to Statistics | 3 |
| Choose two credits from MnTC Goal Areas 3, 7, 8, or 10 | 2 |
MnTC Goal Area 7
| Human Diversity | |
| COMM1250 | Interpersonal Communication | 3 |
| PSYC1200 | Psychology Throughout the Lifespan | 3 |
| PSYC1300 | Abnormal Psychology | 3 |
| SOCI1200 | Marriage and Family | 3 |
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| Race, Power, and Justice | |
| SOCI1400 | Race in America | 3 |
Graduation (60 Credits)
Semester listings reflect the recommended sequence. Due to circumstances beyond our control, the information herein is subject to change without notice.
3/13/2024 : BP BTBU / EP ETBU