Bachelor of Science in Business Administration – Completion Program
Transfer your credits, and gain in-demand leadership skills with an online business administration completion program.
The economy is changing fast. What it means to succeed in business is changing, too—and Aspen’s Bachelor of Science in Business Administration completion program is helping to prepare the next generation of leaders. Our bachelor’s degree in business administration sets up students to pursue management careers across a spectrum of industries, preparing you for positions in a wide variety of professional settings in business and management. This program is designed for those who have earned an associate’s degree, or a minimum of 60 college credits, and are looking to secure their BS in Business Administration.
Graduates of our Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree will have a solid grasp of the key areas of management, organization, and communication—the essential ingredients for success as well-rounded professionals in today’s changing business landscape. If you do not have an associate’s degree or 60 college credits, Aspen offers a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration program that provides a general education foundation in addition to the business curriculum.
Enjoy Flexibility– 20 online courses with program start dates every 2 weeks
Choose Where You Learn– Online courses
Affordable Monthly Payments
Focus on Your Passion– Choose your capstone project
Why More Students Are Choosing Aspen
BSBA Courses
Aspen’s business administration curriculum features 20 courses designed to equip you with leadership and management skills. Taught by experienced educators from diverse industries, you’ll have the opportunity to apply new knowledge directly to your field through the integration of your BSBA capstone project.
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BUS210 - Business Fundamentals
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MGT414 - Principles of Management
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BUS320 - Principles of Marketing
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BUS305 - Business Research and Communications
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MAT350 - Quantitative Methods
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MGT464 - Organizational Behavior
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MAT444 - Finance for Managers
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BUS225 - Legal Environment of Business
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BUS454 - Ethical Decision Making for Business
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CIS315 - Business Information Systems
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CIS490 - Introduction to eBusiness
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MGT240 - Operations Management
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MGT215 - Customer Relationship Management
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CIS434 - Internet Marketing
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MGT474 - Fundamentals of Project Management
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BUS484 - Entrepreneurship
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BUS495 - International Business
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MGT424 - Leadership in Organizations
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MGT494 - Strategic Management
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BUS499 - Senior Capstone
This course will provide an overview of the world of business by exploring both the external and the internal environments that impact a business. Basic business aspects such as organizational structures and forms, marketing, management, human resource development, finance, and operations will be evaluated. Each of these concepts will be applied to real-life situations for further understanding. The class will culminate with a fictitious business outline incorporating each of the fundamental areas of business.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course trains on managing in the new competitive landscape, how business operates on a global scale, what types of technology is advancing online and offline, and managing for competitive advantage through environmental analysis and responding to the environment. The functions of management are demonstrated in eight modules and cover every management topic from the foundational theories and paradigms to ethics, strategic planning, the management of human resources in a diverse workforce, and of course, leadership, teamwork, and entrepreneurship.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This is an introductory course in Marketing designed for the general business student, not just the Marketing major. This is a survey course designed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the bedrock concepts of marketing. This course has four basic learning objectives. First, we will introduce you to the basic principles of marketing that have existed for many years. Second, marketing success is based on forming internal partnerships between marketing professionals and their colleagues in other functional areas of the firm. Third, enhanced capabilities of marketing organizations have produced new and better products, which have in turn, heightened customers' expectations. The last of our cutting-edge subjects is the impact of the Internet. No single development in recent memory has had such a profound impact on marketing.
3 CreditsRequired Books
Today, good communication skills are at the top of the list of employee qualifications that are in high demand. Additionally, it is important to be able to process and communicate information in today's high-tech environment. Those equipped with these skills will have a distinct advantage in the workplace. This course examines real-world business communication issues such as ethics, cultural diversity, technology, teamwork, law, audience-centered messages and the writing process. It teaches techniques, strategies and forms of writing used in the professional world in order to achieve business goals. This course also provides an understanding of business research. Through library research and online information gathering, this course will increase your knowledge of organizational writing and communications including case analysis, data interpretation, problem solving, and report writing.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The quantitative approach involves using numbers to help define, describe, and resolve a wide range of business problems. Quantitative Methods is an overview of statistical techniques used in business decision-making. Students examine research design, statistics, data analysis, and research methodology.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course focuses on the people in the organization and how they work and behave in the work environment. It examines the behavior of individuals, the dynamics of teamwork, the processes of small groups, decision-making, problem-solving, conflict management, and ways to eliminate barriers to effective communications within the workplace.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This introduction to corporate financial management and investments provides the framework, concepts, and tools for analyzing financial decisions by applying the fundamental principles of modern financial theory. Major topics include the time value of money and capital budgeting.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the legal and regulatory environment of business. Topics include law as a foundation of business, litigation, contracts, intellectual property, criminal law, securities regulations, agency and employment laws, discrimination, consumer protection, and more.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course is designed to acquaint you with the unique challenges of resolving ethical dilemmas and making ethical decisions is today's complex business organizations. This course relies upon applying a stakeholder perspective and value-based management approach to situations that involves groups and individuals who often have competing demands and interpretations of a problem, crisis, or opportunity. The stakeholder management approach ideally aims at having all parties reach win-win outcomes through communication and collaborative efforts. Unfortunately, this does not always happen in reality. Business professionals need straightforward frameworks to thoughtfully and objectively analyze and then sort through complex issues in order to make decisions that matter - ethically, economically socially, legally, and spiritually.
3 CreditsRequired Books
Today, in business, we see the continuing emergence of the digital firm. A continuing stream of information technology innovations is continuing to transform the business world. Every aspect of the firm is not only touched by the digital process, but has been transformed by it. Managing information systems has become a task for all levels of managers and all functional areas of the business. In today's digital firm there is no escaping the opportunities (as well as the challenges) that technology brings. This course focuses on understanding the nature of the digital firm and the key issues in organizing and managing it. Managers need to identify the challenges facing their firms; understand the technologies that will help them meet these challenges; design business processes to take advantage of the technologies; and create management procedures and policies to implement the required changes. It is essential that business students understand how information technologies are changing business firms and markets today and how they will likely change in the near-term future as digital technologies continue to evolve.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This is an introductory course that is based on the assumption that E-business practices are not only being used by ""dot com"" companies, but are also being adopted by established businesses as well. E-business is not just about new venture startups; it is also about transforming business to gain efficiencies. The references in the text for this course are fairly exhaustive and represent e-business practice as of the year 2003. The heavy reliance on trade journals is due to the rapidly evolving business environment. Information in trade journals typically precedes material found in textbooks, journals, or academic papers. Over the past fifteen years, the Internet has grown from a new way to communicate to a driver of technological transformation of business processes. The current focus has produced dramatic change in both pure-play e-business and traditional brick-and-mortar companies. This course will address the new technological environment that marketers are facing by introducing strategic considerations related to technology and technology implementation. The course will explore the basics of marketing exchange utilizing the information highway, multimedia techniques, database marketing, and interactive telecommunications and other e-business techniques. Prerequisites: All Required Liberal Arts and 100/200-Level
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course examines recent developments in operations management including revenue management, bullwhip effect, supply chain coordination and manufacturing flexibility. Quantitative topics are explained using real-world examples with data from actual companies. It introduces the topics including process flow, estimating, labor costs, batching, the impact of variability, projecting uncertain demand, reactive capacity, risk pooling and others.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course explores the aspects and impacts of CRM. It examines how Web 2.0 technologies and social media tools are being woven into CRM strategies. The course identifies the new business models being used by the most successful companies and also provides guidance on how other companies can and should adopt these innovations. Students will explore companies that are providing the best tools, provide various recommendations and insights and present insightful interviews with industry leaders on how to establish and maintain customer relationships.
3 CreditsRequired Books
Much has been written about how the Internet will revolutionize the practice of marketing. While it is clear that this new technology will not replace offline marketing vehicles, including print, radio and television, the Internet can ""turbo charge"" a firm's marketing strategy. By this, we mean that the interactivity and individuality afforded by the Internet allow marketers to create synergy by supporting and enhancing offline levers. Additionally, online marketing levers can be leveraged, when appropriate, to decrease or replace the use of offline levers. The goal of this course is to encourage current and future executives, managers and strategists to rethink their views on marketing strategy. The course presents a customer-centric view of marketing, one that focuses on how firms can create tangible customer relationships by using a practitioner-focused, seven-stage framework for the conception, design and implementation of marketing programs. These customer relationships are enhanced by a wide range of online and offline marketing levers, with an emphasis on the Internet.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course introduces students to the fundamental elements of effective project management. In the context of the typical project life cycle, the required tools and techniques used to plan, measure, and control projects and the methods used to organize and manage projects are presented.
3 CreditsRequired Books
Entrepreneurship is an introductory course intended to provide students with a solid foundation in terms of the vital role played by entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in the 21st century global economy. Students will assess, explore, critique, and celebrate the phenomenon of entrepreneurship. The course will focus on the creation of new ventures, the ways that they come into being, and factors associated with their success.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course is designed to acquaint you with the unique challenges of conducting business on a global basis. We will quickly dispel the theory that international business is really nothing more than conducting business domestically - only on a larger scale. Managers wishing succeed internationally will face a variety of new and unique challenges that must be understood within a broader context of global strategy and cross-border management. The goal of this course is to provide such a context. Today, multinational corporations are making their operations in large emerging economies like China and India central to their global strategies; they are coming to grips with social responsibility issues and challenges raised by the anti-globalization movement. The globalization of business creates wealth that benefits business entities, nations, and people. Many people associate international business only with huge businesses making huge profits, but it also supports entrepreneurs and corporations in developing countries and reduces poverty throughout the world. A joint study conducted by the United Nations, Organization for Economic Development, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, reports that the goal of reducing poverty by half from 1990 to 2015 is on schedule.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course provides a basic foundation of skills needed to equip students for future leadership activities. It introduces the history, philosophy, theories, and concepts of leadership and its relationship to the management of organizational change. Students identify and hone their own personal characteristics that will help them develop into effective leaders.
3 CreditsRequired Books
How do organizations manage to plan ahead and understand industry and global trends that are currently happening but also in the future? Strategy is the practice of setting goal-directed actions to gain performance and competitive advantage over their industry competitors. Strategic management is the integrative management field that combines analysis, formulation, and implementation (AFI) in the quest for competitive advantage. In this course, we will deep-dive into strategic management and explore three different aspects of how organizations manage this information and how they develop that competitive advantage. First, we will discuss strategy analysis. Second, we will explore strategy formulation. Last, we will analyze strategy implementation. Assignments will be assessed through case study. A case study is a fundamental learning tool in strategic management.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this individualized learning experience is to enable you, as an Aspen student well along the way toward the completion of your degree requirements, to develop an original comprehensive research project on a topic of professional or personal interest. This project-based course is designed to encourage you to draw upon knowledge and experience that you have gained over the course of your studies with Aspen. The project also allows you to integrate your other related educational or professional development activities. Projects are intended to be of an applied and pragmatic nature and we hope that the outcome and findings of your research will be of value to you, either in connection with your own organizational situation, or personally such as in the exploration of entrepreneurial opportunities.
3 CreditsRequired Books
“The faculty is top-notch, and the instructors are some of the best. Their ability to link learning materials to things in your life to make that “connection” is vital for learning, and Aspen instructors in the School of Business and Technology have been amazing for me.”
David G.
BS Business Administration, graduated November 2022Cost & Time to Completion
The Best Fit for Working Adults
We understand the difficulties in pursuing your bachelor’s degree when you have a demanding work schedule. The 8-week courses at Aspen University allow you to complete your program in as little as 2 years.
Our Monthly Payment Plan Makes Us Different.
Paying for your bachelor’s degree shouldn’t be complicated. Our Monthly Payment Plan makes it easy for working professionals to finance their BSBA program.
Tuition Rates
| $15,000 | Tuition |
| $2,075 | Fees |
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| $20,075 | |
Other Ways to Finance Your Degree
Students who have served, or are currently serving in the United States Military and their legal spouses are eligible to receive a Military Affiliation Discount from Aspen University.
Aspen University is currently approved by the U.S. Department of Education to offer federal student aid for the BSBA program.
Aspen University maintains employee tuition discount partnerships with a large and growing number of organizations. Tell your enrollment advisor where you work and ask them to check for you prior to enrolling.
Aspen offers several payment plans for students to fund their education.
Earn Your BSBA with Confidence
The School of Business and Technology at Aspen University has received specialized accreditation for its business programs through the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE) located at 11960 Quivira Road in Overland Park, Kansas, USA. For a list of accredited programs please view our IACBE Member status page.
Admission Requirements
Application – A completed application; Aspen does not charge an application fee
High School Diploma or GED – Official Transcript demonstrating a valid high school diploma or GED; this requirement is waived if you have completed at least 15 credits of college–level coursework (see Catalog for more information)
Career Outlook
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, a degree in business administration offers a wide array of career opportunities. As industries adapt to new technologies and global market trends, business professionals with comprehensive knowledge in management, finance, marketing, and operations are in high demand.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in business and financial operations is expected to grow faster than average from 2023 to 2033, adding approximately 1.2 million new jobs annually. The demand for professionals in roles such as management analysts, market research analysts, financial managers, and human resource specialists is particularly strong, driven by the need for businesses to improve efficiency, manage resources effectively, and innovate in an increasingly competitive environment.
Graduates with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration are well-positioned to pursue careers in various industries, including finance, healthcare, technology, retail, and manufacturing. The versatility of this degree also allows for career progression into leadership roles, entrepreneurship, or further education, such as an MBA or Certificate in Project Management.
Average Annual Salary for Management Occupations
$116,880
Data pulled from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Fall 2024. Salary can vary widely depending on geographical location and role.
BSBA Frequently Asked Questions
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What is a BSBA degree?
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Is Aspen’s BSBA program accredited?
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Can I finish my BSBA degree online?
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I hold a PMP® certification from the Project Management Institute. Can I use that for credit in this program?
A BSBA degree is an undergraduate-level degree that prepares graduates for careers in business through providing a foundation of broad business fundamentals. This degree equips you with the skills and knowledge to pursue careers in management, finance, marketing, human resources, start-ups, and other business-related fields. Graduates can work across corporate, non-profit, and government sectors.
Yes, the BSBA program is accredited by the International Accreditation Council for Business Education.
Yes, Aspen’s BSBA degree programs are completed online.
Applicants who hold valid and current PMP® certification are eligible to receive three credits in lieu of the following course: MGT474 Fundamentals of Project Management.