Admission Requirements

Students applying for the accelerated program are not required to have completed their bachelor’s degree prior to pursuing the master’s program. The following requirements must be met before an individual can be admitted into this program:

• The student must be seeking the bachelor’s degree in Personal Financial Planning, B.S.
• The student must have completed a minimum of 75 credit hours toward the bachelor’s degree at time of application for admission to the accelerated program.
• The student’s cumulative undergraduate GPA must be at least 3.0.
• Student must meet all other Graduate School admission criteria as outlined in the Graduate School Handbook.
• A student who has completed all coursework for the bachelor’s degree is not eligible for the accelerated program.
• The student will be admitted into the accelerated program with a provisional graduate admission status.
• Upon successful completion of 9 credits that count towards both bachelor and master degree, the student will receive full admission to the master program

Program specific admission requirements: 

Students are responsible for researching financial aid implications of starting an accelerated degree program.

Graduation Requirements

• If all other bachelor’s degree requirements are met, the student can apply to be awarded the bachelor’s degree after completion of the nine (9) graduate credit hours from the master’s degree that are counted toward the bachelor’s degree in Personal Financial Planning. This may occur 1 to 2 semesters prior to completion of the master’s degree.
• The student must complete 30 graduate credit hours with a graduate GPA of at least 3.0., including the 9 credits that count towards both bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
• In the event that the student begins this program but does not wish to finish the Master of Business Administration degree requirements, the student must notify the Dean’s Office and Graduate School office immediately. A notation on the student’s transcript will indicate courses taken at the graduate level were applied to the bachelor’s degree only.

Course Requirements: 9 credit hours

Courses counted toward both degrees.

• FINAN 623 - Financial Modeling Credits: 3
• FINAN 653 - Security and Portfolio Analysis Credits: 3
• FINAN 654 - Derivative Securities and Markets Credits: 3

Master’s Degree Requirements: 21 credit hours

• ACCTG 810 - Foundations of Accounting Credits: 3
• ECON 815 - Economic Analysis for Business Credits: 3
• GENBA 890 - Business Capstone Credits: 3
• MANGT 810 - Operations and Supply Chain Management Credits: 3
• MANGT 820 - Managing Organizational Behavior Credits: 3
• MANGT 860 - Managing the Triple Bottom Line Business Credits: 3
• MKTG 810 - Marketing Concepts and Research Credits: 3

Total Hours Required for Master’s: 30 credit hours