In the BS combined Mathematics and Business Administration degree program, business and mathematics courses lay the groundwork for strong basic training in finance. Finance is a required concentration if you choose this program.
What is a Combined Major?
A combined major combines two majors in a way that allows a student to fulfill all requirements within the standard 8 academic semesters. For details, see the BS in Business Administration and Mathematics program requirements.
This degree can be accomplished using either the four- or five-year co-op plan. There are also business concentrations and business minors to help you customize your unique Northeastern educational experience.
BS in Business Administration and Mathematics Curriculum
The curriculum below is an abbreviated sample of the business administration academic requirements for the Business Administration and Mathematics degree. Please refer to the program information in the Registrar's Undergraduate Catalog for the full curriculum appropriate to your class year. Course numbers and titles are subject to change.
Required Courses
Complete one of the following co-op preparation courses:
BUSN 1103. Professional Development for Business Co-op. 1 Hour.
Introduces students to the Cooperative Education Program and provides them with an opportunity to develop job-search and career-management skills. Offers students an opportunity to perform assessments of their workplace skills, interests, and values and discuss how they impact personal career choices. Students also have an opportunity to prepare a professional-style résumé, learn proper interviewing techniques, and gain an understanding of the opportunities available to them for co-op. Introduces career paths, choices, professional behaviors, work culture, and career decision making. Familiarizes students with workplace issues relative to their field of study and teaches them to use myNEU in the job-search and referral process. Presents co-op policies, procedures, and expectations of the Department of Cooperative Education and co-op employers.
EESC 2000. Professional Development for Co-op. 1 Hour.
Introduces students to the Cooperative Education Program and provides them with an opportunity to develop job-search and career-management skills. Offers students an opportunity to perform assessments of their workplace skills, interests, and values and discuss how they impact personal career choices. Students also have an opportunity to prepare a professional-style résumé, learn proper interviewing techniques, and gain an understanding of the opportunities available to them for co-op. Introduces career paths, choices, professional behaviors, work culture, and career decision making. Familiarizes students with workplace issues relative to their field of study and teaches them to use myNEU in the job-search and referral process. Presents co-op policies, procedures, and expectations of the Department of Cooperative Education and co-op employers.
Complete this integrative course:
FINA 4512. Financial Risk Management. 4 Hours.
Explores the concepts of financial futures, options on financial futures, and listed options markets as developed to help corporations and financial institutions manage financial risk. Covers financial derivatives and standard hedging techniques first, followed by a study of market risk and strategies in managing market risk.
Business Administration Requirements
ACCT 1201. Financial Accounting and Reporting. 4 Hours.
Covers the basic concepts underlying financial statements and the accounting principles followed in the preparation of the balance sheet, the income statement, and the statement of cash flows. Offers students an opportunity to become familiar with accounting terminology and methods designed to enable them to interpret, analyze, and evaluate published corporate financial reports. Wherever appropriate, the course relates current economic, business, and global events to accounting issues. Analyzes how financial reporting concepts affect the behavior of investors, creditors, and other external users. Emphasizes the importance of ethics in financial reporting. Requires second-semester-freshman standing or above.
ACCT 2301. Managerial Accounting. 4 Hours.
Focuses on the development and use of information—especially financial information—for managerial decisions within the firm. Introduces managerial accounting concepts, analyses, and practices that support business decisions through class discussions, exercises, and case analysis. Topics include budgeting, cost management and behavior, cost-volume-profit analysis, relevant costs for decision making, cost allocation issues, and performance evaluation. Emphasizes the importance of ethics.
FINA 2201. Financial Management. 4 Hours.
Designed to develop the financial skills and logical thought processes necessary to understand and discuss financial policy decisions in a global economy. Specific objectives include developing an understanding of the time value of money; using financial statements in decision making; and understanding the nature of financial markets, the cost of capital, valuation of stocks and bonds, management of short-term assets, short-term and long-term financing, capital markets, and multinational financial management. Addresses the impact of legal, social, technological, and ethical considerations on efficient economic outcomes. Requires a financial calculator and provides an opportunity to develop computer spreadsheet skills.
MKTG 2201. Introduction to Marketing. 4 Hours.
Provides an overview of the role of marketing in business and society. Considers the planning, implementation, and evaluation of marketing efforts in consumer and business-to-business companies, in service and goods companies, and in for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Also examines contemporary issues in marketing that can affect organizational success. A term project is used to enable students to apply their learning about the fundamentals of marketing.
ORGB 3201. Organizational Behavior. 4 Hours.
Provides an overview of the actions and behaviors of people in organizations. Uses case studies, videos, experiential exercises, lectures, and discussions to explore the effects of individual, interpersonal, group, organizational, and cross-cultural factors on human behavior. Topics include groups and teams, motivation, leadership, organizational change, organizational culture, structure, conflict resolution, and communication. Both the underlying theories and principles of these topics, as well as their practical applications and implications for organizations, are covered.
INTB 1203. International Business and Global Social Responsibility. 4 Hours.
Introduces the student to forces and issues confronted in our era of rapid globalization. Managers must understand forces from interconnected social, political, and economic national environments that affect their company's operations. At the same time they need to draw on their ethical foundations to address and act on social responsibility imperatives across national borders.
STRT 4501. Strategy in Action. 4 Hours.
Provides for the integration and application of administrative theory, knowledge, skills, and experiences for effective strategic performance in an organization. Offers students an opportunity to acquire a better understanding of the relevance and limitations of business and management concepts and techniques when making and implementing strategic decisions.
Example Mathematics Courses
- Probability and Statistics
- Differential Equations and Linear Algebra for Engineering
- Theory of Interest and Basics of Life Insurance
- Calculus 3 for Science and Engineering
- Introduction to Mathematics Reasoning
Concentration
Additional Business Concentrations
The Finance concentration is required for graduation, but you may also choose to do a second Business concentration:
Undergraduate Concentration in Accounting
Undergraduate Concentration in Corporate Innovation
Undergraduate Concentration in Entrepreneurial Startups
Undergraduate Concentration in Finance
Undergraduate Concentration in Fintech
Undergraduate Concentration in Healthcare Management and Consulting
Undergraduate Concentration in International Business
Possessing a knowledge of how people, firms, and institutions interact across borders provides International Business concentrators with a competitive edge.
Undergraduate Concentration in Management
Undergraduate Concentration in Management Information Systems
Undergraduate Concentration in Marketing
Undergraduate Concentration in Marketing Analytics
Undergraduate Concentration in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Undergraduate Concentration in Supply Chain Management
Experiential Learning
Note: One six-month co-op experience is required for this program.