Courtesy SUNY Empire State
SUNY Empire State College’s School of Business has been approved by the State Education Department to offer a new Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree.
The program will launch in the fall term, with the option for students to be enrolled fully online.
Officials said the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is a comprehensive business degree designed to serve adult learners working in business-related fields who want to advance their career by pursuing a bachelor’s degree in business or prepare for a MBA.
The BBA program will require fewer liberal arts credits, making the new degree program an attractive option for students who want a strong knowledge base in all facets of business and community college graduates with an Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) degree, officials said.
SUNY Empire State College Officer-in-Charge Nathan Gonyea, Ph.D., said the launch of the new BBA degree program “reflects SUNY Empire’s ongoing commitment to helping students fulfill their academic dreams and professional ambitions, while also addressing the employment needs of the economy. The BBA will fit around the busy lives of adult learners and enable them to shift their careers in exciting new directions.”
“The time is perfect for SUNY Empire’s School of Business to offer a business degree program that contains all the subject areas that equip learners for successful business careers, with a design that is transfer friendly,” SUNY Empire State College Dean of the School of Business Julie Gedro, MBA, Ed.D., said. “Whether a student has an associate of applied science, an associate of science, or a trove of college-equivalent knowledge that we can help translate and acknowledge as credit applied toward the degree, our BBA provides an excellent degree for them to succeed in business.”
SUNY Empire State College chair of the Department of Business, International Business, and Marketing, Dongho Kim, Ph.D., said the BBA will allow working adults “to make positive career changes with a flexible and quality education in business.”