The program will: 

1. Provide knowledge and skills adequate to assume supply chain management positions in a broad spectrum of organizations.
2. Prepare students for careers in procurement management, manufacturing operations, warehousing, logistics, and transportation management in organizations that produce, sell, and distribute goods and services to end customers 
3. Provide knowledge of how global supply chains operate and the skills to make decisions to support strategic, tactical, and operational activities to manage efficient and effective supply chains. 
4. Prepare students for ethical decision-making practices that are associated with managing relationships with supplier and customer organizations. 
5. Provide a full range of coursework on how to apply analytical techniques and utilize data to better orchestrate the actions of various entities involved in the supply chain, such as manufacturers, vendors, transportation companies, distribution centers, and retailers.

 

Admission Requirements
 

Students entering college for the first time and eligible for admission to K-State must enroll in the business administration pre-professions program (BAPP). 

Students with previous academic work (either at K-State or elsewhere) requesting transfer to the College of Business Administration must have a 2.5 or higher grade point average and enroll in the BAPP curriculum. Transfer students, entering with 45 or more credit hours,  must achieve a K-State GPA of 2.5 or higher on the first 15 or more hours of K-State course work to be able to continue in the College of Business Administration. For purposes of admission, grade point averages will be based on all courses attempted at colleges or universities.

The BAPP is expressly designed as a non-degree program; students with 60 or more credit hours will not be allowed to enroll in BAPP unless they are first-semester transfer students. Students remain in BAPP until they meet the requirements for their intended degree plan and complete an Application to Degree Plan.

Admission to a degree plan (major) in accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, general business (distance learning students), management, management information systems, marketing or professional strategic selling is necessary for graduation. Applicants for admission to one of the degree plans will be accepted upon completion of a minimum of 45 credit hours with a K-State grade point average of 2.5 or above.

Transfer students must meet the above requirements and complete at least 12 graded hours at K-State before they can be admitted into a degree plan.

The exact sequence of the courses to be taken is worked out between student and advisor. There is some flexibility in scheduling. To enroll in any course, students must have prerequisites as stated in the catalog.

Applications for a degree plan (major) may be made by the semester during which the student will have completed at least 45 credit hours of the pre-professional requirements. Degree plan applications must be filed by the time students complete 60 credit hours.

 

Graduation Requirements
 

Candidates for the bachelor of science in business administration must complete at least 9 credit hours of resident instruction in upper-division business courses after acceptance and enrollment in a degree plan program in the college. Additional residency requirements may apply.

A student will become eligible for graduation with a bachelor of science in business administration degree upon fulfilling the above requirements and completing 120 credit hours of coursework. Forty-five of these hours must be in the BAPP program, 30 hours in the business core, and the remaining 45 hours must be earned as specified by the student’s major.