BBA in Accounting
The School offers a Bachelor of Business Administration degree (BBA) with a major in Accounting. Approximately two of the four years of University work are spent in meeting general education requirements, one year is devoted to a broad business education, and one year is devoted to a concentration in Accounting.
In order to obtain a Bachelors of Business Administration in Accounting degree, a student must be admitted into the Shidler College of Business.
To view admission requirements into Shidler College of Business and to download an on-line application form, please refer to the Shidler College of Business admission information.
Once admitted, the following requirements must be completed before graduation.
OVERVIEW OF GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
- General Education Core and Graduation Requirements
- Accounting Major Requirements
- ACC 305/460
- ACC 321
- ACC 323
- ACC 401
- ACC 409 (for students entering the College of Business in Fall 2004 or later)
- ACC 418
- Shidler College of Business Requirements
- Business Core
- BLAW 200: Legal Environment of Business
- BUS 310: Statistical Analysis for Business Decisions
- BUS 311: Information Systems for Global Business Environment
- BUS 312: Principles of Marketing
- BUS 313: Economic and Financial Environment of Global Business
- BUS 314: Business Finance
- BUS 315: Global Management and Organizational Behavior
- BUS 345: Strategic Management
- Business Communication (one of the following)
- BUS 209: Written Communication in Business
- ENG 209: Business Writing
- International Business (one course from the Approved List)
- 15 credits of Non-Introductory electives
- No more than two courses may be 200-level courses; any 200-level courses used for this requirement must have a 100-level prerequisite (e.g. JPN 201-202)
- At least three courses must be 300 or 400-level courses
- No more than two courses can be business courses, but may not be in one's major (with the exceptions of the Speech requirement for the ACC major)
- ENG 250-257 may NOT be used to satisfy any of these electives
- Courses may be taken CR/NC, if not used to fulfill ANY other requirement, including Focus and Hawaiian/Second Language
- Courses toward a minor may be used to satisfy these electives (NOTE: No courses used toward a minor may be used toward an academic major)
- No more than three credits of BUS 395 (Internship) may be used to satisfy these electives
- No courses (with the exception of language 201 and 202) used to fulfill the General Education Core may satisfy these electives
- Credits
- 124 Non-repeated credits
- At least 24 upper-division business credits at UHM after Shidler College of Business admission
- At least 9 credits in major at UHM after Shidler College of Business Admission
- Grades
- Cumulative Manoa GPA of 2.0
- Business Core and Major GPA of 2.0 with NO grades below C-
- Residency
- University residency requirement of 30 credit hours at UH Manoa
- Minimum of eight upper-division business courses (24 credit hours), including a minimum of three courses in the student's major and BUS 345, after admission to Shidler
TWO of the following for those who intend to become a CPA in the state of Hawai‘i:
For the most recent and complete admission information, please contact the Office of Student Academic by phone at: [1] (808) 956 8215 or by E-mail at: business@hawaii.edu or check the University of Hawaii General and Graduate Information website at: http://www.catalog.hawaii.edu.