Business

This program offers students a strong general business education together with the opportunity for a concentration in finance, international business, management, or marketing. The BS degree program in Business is appropriate for graduates of associate’s degree programs as well as for new and transfer students.

The Department offers the following options in the Business Bachelor of Science degree program.  Students must elect one of the following:

Business BS: Finance Concentration

Business BS: International Business Concentration

Business BS: Management Concentration

Business BS: Marketing Concentration

Admission, Continuation, and Graduation Requirements

For admission, continuation, and graduation from the Bachelor of Science degree program in Accounting students must maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5.  A 2.5 GPA is not a requirement for students pursuing a minor in the School of Business, or for students enrolling in individual courses.

Graduate Course Double Counting Policy

Undergraduate students majoring in Accounting, Business or Economics at the College of Staten Island and satisfying the following criteria may be granted permission to take up to three graduate courses at undergraduate tuition to be counted towards their bachelor’s degree. These graduate courses may be used only to substitute for 400-level elective requirements (ACC, BDA, BUS, ECO, FNC, MGT, MKT) designations. All graduate courses in the Business Management program can be taken as double-counting courses. All graduate courses in the Business Management Program can be taken. This allows students to earn both the bachelor’s and the master’s degrees in five years.

Criteria:

1. Current enrollment in a bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, or Economics at the College of Staten Island and successful completion of three years of study with 90 or more earned credits.

2. Cumulative GPA of 3.3 or above.

3. Two letters of recommendation, at least one from a full-time College of Staten Island Business School faculty under whom the applicant has studied.

4. Permissions from the course instructor, the coordinator of the graduate program, and the department chairperson.

5. Application for admission and conditional acceptance into the Business Management graduate program.

Honors

To graduate with honors in Business a student must have a 3.5 grade point average in business courses and must have a 3.25 grade point average overall. An honors thesis or project supervised by a member of the business faculty must be completed.