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The Undergraduate Program

The Accounting Minor

The Rady School of Management’s accounting minor is designed to provide students a breadth of understanding of accounting theory, practices, and applications. The minor will appeal to students who envision careers in the accounting profession. Because of accounting’s broad application, these careers would span across public accounting firms, corporate accounting departments, and governmental, nonprofit, and nongovernmental organizations. For many students, this will be their first step in achieving a Certificate in Public Accounting, CPA.

Accounting Minor Requirements

The accounting minor consists of seven courses (twenty-eight units)—five core courses (twenty units), two electives from a curated list.

Required Courses (twenty units)
  • MGT 45. Principles of Accounting
  • MGT 5. Managerial Accounting
  • MGT 131A. Intermediate Accounting A
  • MGT 131B. Intermediate Accounting B
  • MGT 137. Financial Statement Analysis
Elective Courses (Choose two: eight units)
  • MGT 132. Auditing
  • MGT 133. Advanced Cost Accounting
  • MGT 135. Federal Taxation—Companies
  • MGT 136. Advanced Accounting
  • MGT 139. Accounting Information Systems
  • MGT 143. Forensic Accounting
  • MGT 146. Ethics in Accounting
  • MGT 147. Not-for-Profit and Government Accounting
  • MGT 148. Mergers and Acquisitions
  • MGT 149. Topics in Accounting

In order to count toward the minor, all courses must be taken for a letter grade and students must earn a C– or better in each course. Lower-division transfer credits for courses that are clearly equivalent in scope and content to lower-division courses required for the accounting minor will be accepted from regionally accredited United States institutions and from foreign institutions recognized by the Rady School of Management.

CPA Accounting Requirements

For more information about CPA education requirements, please visit https://www.dca.ca.gov/cba/.

The Business Minor

The Rady School of Management’s business minor is designed to provide students the breadth of understanding of business theory and a depth of ability with business practices and applications. This minor will appeal to students who envision careers that require an understanding of the basic principles and practices of business. Because of business’s broad application, UC San Diego students with a minor in business will be well prepared to assume entry and intermediate positions in the business functions of a vast number large and small for-profit companies, governmental agencies, nonprofit organizations, and nongovernmental entities. Additionally, graduates pursuing careers not directly related to formal business functions, but still impacted by business practices, will bring a much-valued perspective to their initial employment.

Business Minor Requirements

To fulfill the requirements of the business minor, students must take six required courses (twenty-four units) and one elective (four units). A maximum of two lower-division courses (eight units) may be applied toward the minor.

Required courses (twenty-four units):

  • MGT 16. Personal Ethics at Work or MGT 166. Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility
  • MGT 45. Principles of Accounting (This course is designed for nonaccounting minors. Students who have taken both ECON 4/MGT 4 and MGT 5 may substitute those for this requirement.)
  • MGT 71/R.* Operating a Successful Business (4) or MGT 171. Operations Management (4)
  • MGT 100. Customer Analytics (4) or MGT 103. Product Marketing and Management (4)
  • MGT 181. Enterprise Finance
  • MGT 112. Global Business Strategy

*No more than eight units can be lower division so students should not select both MGT 16 and MGT 71.

Elective (four units):

One upper-division Rady (MGT) course, which is otherwise not restricted, or a preapproved course from another UC San Diego department (see Rady website for a list).

All courses taken for the minor must be taken for a letter grade. Students must earn at least a C– in each course used for the minor. Lower-division transfer credits for courses that are clearly equivalent in scope and content to lower-division Rady School courses required for the minor will be accepted from regionally accredited US institutions and from foreign institutions recognized by the Rady School of Management.

The Business Analytics Minor

Business analytics is the use of business data to improve business decision-making. The explosion of data is transforming nearly every business function to incorporate data in its retrospective analyses, current decisions, and future forecasts. The business analytics minor curriculum exposes students to four key learning goals: fundamental frameworks and principles of data analysis, wide exposure to a variety of business analytics applications, hands-on training with modern data analysis toolkits, and the generalizable ability to repeatedly learn and apply challenging mathematical frameworks. These goals are accompanied by substantial freedom in customizing course electives to individual student interests, and limited overlap between core curricula and primary major requirements.

Business Analytics Minor Requirements

To fulfill the requirements of this minor, students must select five core analytics courses (twenty units) and select two courses (eight units) from a list of approved elective options.

Required Courses (twenty units):

  • MGT 71/71R. Operating a Successful Business
  • MGT 108R. Applied Market Research
  • MGT 151A. or 151R. Business Analytics
  • MGT 153. Information Technology for Business Analytics
  • MGT 155. Advanced Business Analytics

Elective courses—Choose two (eight units):

  • MGT 100. Customer Analytics
  • MGT 137. Financial Statement Analysis
  • MGT 159T. Topics in Analytics
  • MGT 160. Experiments in Firms
  • MGT 170. Management Information Systems
  • MGT 171/171R. Operations Management
  • MGT 175. Supply Chain Management
  • MGT 176. Strategic Cost Management
  • MGT 177. Analytics and Spreadsheet Modeling
  • DSC 10. Principles of Data Science
  • Relevant upper-division courses from other departments by petition

*No more than eight units can be lower division. 

All courses taken for the minor must be taken for a letter grade. Students must earn at least a C– in each course. Lower-division transfer credits for courses that are clearly equivalent in scope and content to lower-division Rady School courses required for the minor will be accepted from regionally accredited US institutions and from foreign institutions recognized by the Rady School of Management.

The Entrepreneurship and Technology Minor

The Rady School of Management’s entrepreneurship and technology (E&T) minor is designed to provide students with a strong understanding of technology-enabled entrepreneurship along with relevant theory, practices, and applications in the modern innovation-driven world. This minor will appeal to creative and ambitious students who envision launching start-ups, managing their own business, or entering careers in technology-enabled fields. In this program, students will:

  • Learn a broad context of the application of entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation principles.
  • Develop a comprehensive view of entrepreneurial innovation within both established businesses and start-up operations.
  • Be technology-savvy and future-looking about how businesses will be enabled by modern technologies (AI in particular).
  • Be innovation oriented and have experiential learning opportunities.
  • Gain insights through course work in a unique area not available elsewhere on campus.

This minor, through course work and faculty guidance, will help innovators, entrepreneurs, and next-generation leaders cultivate and expand on their technology start-ups and other business ideas.

Entrepreneurship and Technology (E&T) Minor Requirements

The entrepreneurship and technology minor consists of seven courses (twenty-eight units)—three core courses (twelve units) and four electives from a curated list. Students may take all the elective courses from the “Primary E&T” electives list or select no more than one from the supporting electives listed in the “Breadth” elective list.

Required Courses (twelve units)

  • MGT 121A. Innovation to Market A
  • MGT 127R. AI and Technology Strategy
  • MGT 187. New Venture Finance

Elective Courses (four courses: sixteen units)

Students may take all the elective courses from the “Primary E&T” electives list or select no more than one from the supporting electives listed in the “Breadth” elective list.

Primary Entrepreneurship and Technology Electives (Choose at least three: twelve units)

  • MGT 71/R. Operating a Successful Business
  • MGT 100. Customer Analytics
  • MGT 102. E-Commerce
  • MGT 103. Product Marketing and Management
  • MGT 121B. Innovation to Market B
  • MGT 123. Business of Healthcare and Life Sciences
  • MGT 128R. Business Innovation and Growth
  • MGT 129. Topics in Entrepreneurship
  • MGT 153. Information Technology in Business Analytics
  • MGT 155. Advanced Business Analytics
  • MGT 164. Business and Organizational Leadership
  • MGT 167. Social Entrepreneurship
  • MGT 171/R. Operations Management
  • MGT 172/R. Business Project Management
  • MGT 179. Topics in Innovation, Technology, and Operations

Breadth Elective (up to one course: four units)

  • Any additional course from Primary E&T elective list
  • MGT 104. Strategic Customer Insight (proposed)
  • MGT 107. Consumer Behavior
  • MGT 108R. Applied Market Research
  • MGT 119. Topics in Business (preapproved topics only)
  • MGT 151A. or 151R. Business Analytics
  • MGT 162/R. Negotiations
  • MGT 166. Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
  • MGT 175. Supply Chain Management
  • COGS 122. Start-up Studio
  • ENG 100D. Design for Development: Sustainable Development Design
  • ENG 202. Enterprise Dynamics
  • ENG 207. Corporate Entrepreneurship for Global Competitiveness
  • MAE 154. Product Design and Entrepreneurship
  • CSE 190. Successful Entrepreneurship for Microsystems

All courses taken for this minor must be taken for a letter grade. Students must earn at least a C– in each course. Lower-division transfer credits for courses that are clearly equivalent in scope and content to lower-division Rady School courses required for the minor will be accepted from regionally accredited U.S. institutions and from foreign institutions recognized by the Rady School of Management.

The Finance Minor

Through its curriculum and interactions with faculty and the external business community, the Rady School’s finance minor will provide students with an educational experience that emphasizes the sound fundamental financial concepts necessary for success in the industry and that prepares them to begin a challenging and meaningful career upon graduation. A minor in finance can be applied to a broad range of careers as every industry has a finance function. Courses build skills related to both personal and business financial management. The minor consists of twenty-eight units that provide breadth of content spanning all areas of finance. The finance minor develops current knowledge that firms are seeking in areas like sustainable investing, financial modeling and forecasting, private equity and new venture finance, along with sound fundamentals of corporate finance, investment banking, and financial accounting.

Finance Minor Requirements

To fulfill the requirements of this minor, students must select one core finance course (four units) and six courses (twenty-four units) from a list of approved electives options.

Core courses options–Choose one (four units):

  • MGT 180/R. Business Finance (4)
  • MGT 181. Enterprise Finance (4)

Elective courses options–Choose six (twenty-four units):

  • MGT 12. Personal Financial Management (4)*
  • MGT 45. Principles of Accounting (4)* or MGT 4/ECON 4. Financial Accounting and MGT 5. Managerial Accounting (eight units, counts as one elective)*
  • MGT 137. Financial Statement Analysis (4)
  • MGT 148. Mergers and Acquisitions (4)
  • MGT 157. Real Estate Securitization (4)
  • MGT 158. Real Estate and the Tech Sector (4)
  • MGT 176. Strategic Cost Management (4)
  • MGT 183. Financial Investments (4)
  • MGT 184. Money and Banking (4)
  • MGT 185. Investment Banking (4)
  • MGT 186. Empirical Finance (4) (new)
  • MGT 187. New Venture Finance (4)
  • MGT 189. Topics in Finance (4)
  • MATH 193A. Actuarial Mathematics I (4)
  • MATH 193B. Actuarial Mathematics II (4)
  • MATH 194. The Mathematics of Finance (4)

*No more than eight units can be lower division.

All courses taken for the minor must be taken for a letter grade. Students must earn at least a C– in each course. Lower-division transfer credits for courses that are clearly equivalent in scope and content to lower-division Rady School courses required for the minor will be accepted from regionally accredited US institutions and from foreign institutions recognized by the Rady School of Management.

The Marketing Minor

Marketing requires the firm to understand customer needs; offer appropriate solutions that the customer can find, understand, trust, and access; and price offerings to align all relevant parties’ economic incentives. Rady marketing classes emphasize both solid theoretical foundations and hands-on skill development, and build on foundations laid in business analytics, computer science, economics, psychology, and statistics. Every business, government, and nonprofit enterprise involves some component of marketing. The minor consists of twenty-eight units that provide students a broad choice of topical interests.

Marketing Minor Requirements

To fulfill the requirements of this minor, students must select one core marketing course (four units) and select six courses (twenty-four units) from a list of approved electives options.

Core courses options–Choose one (four units):

  • MGT 100. Customer Analytics (4)
  • MGT 103. Product Marketing and Management (4)

Elective courses options–Choose six (twenty-four units):

  • MGT 100. Customer Analytics (4) (if not chosen above)
  • MGT 102. E-Commerce (4)
  • MGT 103. Product Marketing and Management (4) (if not chosen above)
  • MGT 104. Strategic Customer Insight (4)
  • MGT 105. Product Promotion and Brand Management (4)
  • MGT 106. Sales and Sales Management (4)
  • MGT 107. Consumer Behavior (4)
  • MGT 108R. Applied Market Research (4)
  • MGT 109. Topics in Marketing (4)
  • MGT 111. Behavioral Science of Money (4)
  • MGT 112. Global Business Strategy (4)
  • MGT 151A. or 151R. Information Technology in Business Analytics (4)
  • MGT 153. Business Analytics (4)
  • COMM 109D. Mass Communication: Advertising and Society (4)

All courses taken for this minor must be taken for a letter grade. Students must earn at least a C– in each course. Lower-division transfer credits for courses that are clearly equivalent in scope and content to lower-division Rady School courses required for the minor will be accepted from regionally accredited US institutions and from foreign institutions recognized by the Rady School of Management.

The Technology, Innovation, and Supply Chain Minor

Rady’s technology, innovation, and supply chain minor curriculum combines theoretical concepts and practical skills that allow students to focus on value creation, managing relationships with diverse people in diverse functions, industries, global locations, and leveraging technology and data analytics to create the best supply chains. Globalization, technology, and changing customer expectations push the profession to seek people who can pioneer the intersections of the supply chain with the Internet of Things, social media, the cloud, and data security. The minor consists of twenty-eight total units that span the various key fundamentals of the industry.

Technology, Innovation, and Supply Chain Minor Requirements

To fulfill the requirements of the technology, innovation, and supply chain minor, students must take five required courses (twenty units) and two elective courses (eight units) to be chosen from a select list of options.

Core courses (twenty units):

  • MGT 45. Principles of Accounting (4) (or both ECON 4/MGT 4 and MGT 5)
  • MGT 71/R. Operating a Successful Business (4)
  • MGT 127R. AI and Technology Strategy (4)
  • MGT 153. Information Technology in Business Analytics (4)
  • MGT 175. Supply Chain Management (4)

Elective courses (eight units):

  • MGT 128R. Business Innovation and Growth (4)
  • MGT 162/R. Negotiations (2)
  • MGT 166. Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (4)
  • MGT 171/R. Operations Management (4)
  • MGT 172/R. Business Project Management (4)
  • MGT 176. Strategic Cost Management (4)
  • MGT 177. Analytics and Spreadsheet Modeling in Supply Chain Management (4)
  • MGT 179. Topics in Innovation, Technology, and Operations Management (4)

All courses taken for the minor must be taken for a letter grade. Students must earn at least a C– in each course used for the minor. Lower-division transfer credits for courses that are clearly equivalent in scope and content to lower-division Rady School courses required for the minor will be accepted from regionally accredited US institutions and from foreign institutions recognized by the Rady School of Management.

The Business Data Science Major (BS)

The goal of the business data science major is to prepare students for data-driven decision-making roles by integrating rigorous training in data science with foundational and applied knowledge of business functions, equipping graduates with the technical, analytical, and strategic skills needed to solve complex business problems and lead in data-centric industries.

The major consists of ninety-six units, with forty units from lower-division courses and fifty-six units from upper-division courses. The lower-division curriculum includes calculus and linear algebra courses for sixteen units, data science courses for sixteen units, and subject domain courses for eight units. The program includes sixteen units of elective courses that enable students to explore both data science applications and business topics, with an emphasis on strong empirical content.

All majors will be required to undertake a one-quarter capstone project that will give them an opportunity to creatively synthesize much of what they have learned in the data science and management courses for addressing problems in chosen domains. Although only specific prerequisites are required for the capstone, to get the most out of the experience, students are strongly encouraged to complete the majority of their course work for the business data science major prior to enrolling. Students will benefit most if they have completed as many core and elective courses as possible. It is recommended that students take this course as near as possible to graduation, when they will be best equipped to handle a significant empirical challenge.

Lower-division transfer credits for courses that are clearly equivalent in scope and content to lower-division courses required for this major will be accepted from regionally accredited U.S. institutions and from foreign institutions recognized by the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) and/or Rady School of Management.

Lower Division

All courses must be taken for a letter grade and passed with a minimum grade of C–.

  • Data Science (sixteen units):
    • DSC 10
    • DSC 20
    • DSC 40A
    • DSC 80
  • Mathematics (sixteen units):
    • MATH 18 or MATH 31AH
    • MATH 20A
    • MATH 20B
    • MATH 20C or MATH 31BH
  • Subject Domain Courses (eight units): 
    • DSC 31
    • MGT 45

Upper Division

Students must complete fifty-six upper-division units. All courses must be taken for a letter grade unless offered Pass/Not Pass only. A minimum grade of C– is required.

  • Core Courses (thirty-six units):
    • MATH 183
    • DSC 100
    • DSC 140A
    • DSC 148 or MATH 189
    • MGT 100
    • MGT 127/127R
    • MGT 160
    • MGT 168
    • MGT 180/180R
  • Senior Project (four units):
    • DSC 181/MGT 191
  • Electives (sixteen units):
    • Two upper-division DSC courses: Any other DSC course numbered 100–170 or DSC 190.
    • Two upper-division MGT courses from list below:
      • MGT 104
      • MGT 108R
      • MGT 112
      • MGT 120
      • MGT 137
      • MGT 153
      • MGT 155
      • MGT 159T
      • MGT 162/162R
      • MGT 171/171R
      • MGT 172/172R
      • MGT 175
      • MGT 186
      • MGT 188

Students will be expected to fulfill all prerequisites for all courses, which may entail additional course work beyond the data science major requirements.

The Business Economics Major (BSc)

The business economics major is a collaborative, interdisciplinary degree program between the Rady School and the Department of Economics. This major will train students to operate within firms and to understand how firms operate within markets. Training in core economics disciplines (microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics) will teach students how firms interact with markets, how economies function, and how to extract insights from data. Training in core business disciplines (accounting, finance, management, marketing, operations, strategy) will teach students how to perform various functions inside businesses. Electives will deepen students’ skillsets after core training is complete.

When choosing which mathematics series to take, MATH 10A-B-C or MATH 20A-B-C, it is important to remember that only MATH 20A-B-C allows students access to several upper-division mathematics courses that are recommended as preparation for PhD study in economics and business administration, as well as for graduate studies for professional management degrees, including the MBA. Therefore, while we require business economics majors to take MATH 10A-B-C, we recommend that business economics students take MATH 20A-B-C.

 A student majoring in business economics must meet the following requirements:

Lower Division (nine classes, thirty-six units)
  1. Lower-division mathematics courses: MATH 10A-B-C or MATH 20A-B-C (recommended)
  2. Lower-division economics courses: ECON 1 (principles of microeconomics), ECON 3 (principles of macroeconomics), and ECON 5/POLI 5 (data analytics for the social sciences)
  3. Lower-division Rady School courses: MGT 45 (principles of accounting or both ECON/MGT 4 and MGT 5), MGT 16 (personal ethics at work), MGT 71 (operations management)
 Upper-Division Core (ten classes, forty units)
  1. Upper-division economics core courses: ECON 100A (intermediate microeconomics, part A), ECON 100B (intermediate microeconomics, part B), ECON 110B (short-run macroeconomics), ECON 120A (econometrics, part A), ECON 120B (econometrics, part B)
  2. Upper-division Rady School core courses: MGT 100 (customer analytics), MGT 160 (experiments in firms), MGT 162/162R (negotiations), MGT 164 (business and organizational leadership), MGT 180 (business finance)
Upper-Division Electives (three classes, twelve units)
  1. Upper-division economics and Rady School electives: three upper-division courses, at least one of which must be from economics and at least one of which must be from the Rady School.

Grade Rules for Majors

To graduate with a major, a minimum GPA of 2.0 is required in the upper-division courses used to satisfy major requirements. All courses must be taken for a letter grade and passed with a grade of C– (C minus), or better.

Residency Requirement

To receive a bachelor of science degree in business economics, no more than one upper-division economics course and one upper-division Rady School course may be taken externally from UC San Diego and be counted toward the major.

Honors

To graduate with honors requires the following:

  1. At least two economics honors courses: ECON 100AH, 100BH, 100CH, 110AH, 110BH, 120AH, 120BH, 120CH. (Note: enrollment in these honors classes is by special permission; check with the undergraduate advisers in the Economics Student Services Office, SH 245.)
  2. An honors thesis. The student must enroll in ECON 191A-B. Enrollment in this sequence is by approved proposal. Check with the undergraduate advisers in the Economics Student Services Office, SH 245. The research and writing of the thesis will be conducted over two quarters of the senior year under the supervision of a faculty adviser. The completed thesis must be approved by the business economics honors committee and presented orally to this committee.
  1. A minimum GPA of 3.0 overall, 3.5 in the upper-division courses required for the major, and a 3.5 in the following four classes: the two economics honors classes and ECON 191A-B.

The business economics honors committee will determine the level of honors to be awarded, based on the student’s GPA in the major and the quality of the honors work.

The Business Economics Minor

Grades of P/NP are acceptable for minor courses. If courses are taken for a letter grade, passing is considered with a C– (C minus) or better. To declare a minor, you must use the major/minor tool on TritonLink.

 The business economics minor consists of nine courses:

Three Required Lower-Division Courses

  • ECON 1. Principles of Microeconomics
  • ECON 3. Principles of Macroeconomics
  • MGT 45. Principles of Accounting (or both Econ 4/ MGT 4 and MGT 5)

Three Rady classes from the following list (at least two must be upper division)

  • MGT 16. Personal Ethics at Work*
  • MGT 71. Operations Management*
  • MGT 100. Customer Analytics
  • MGT 160. Experiments in Firms
  • MGT 162/162R. Negotiations
  • MGT 164. Business and Organizational Leadership
  • MGT 180. Business Finance 

*Students may select only one lower-division option.

Two upper-division economics courses (eight units), which are otherwise not restricted (ECON 100–199).

One upper-division course from either Rady School or economics (four units), which are otherwise not restricted (MGT 100–199 or ECON 100–199).