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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Business Administration, Data Analytics/AI Track (BA) Sample Plan


Year One

Fall  Spring
EN - 103 Composition and Rhetoric I   3 EN - 104 Composition and Rhetoric II   3
PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6) 3 PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6) 3
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience    3 MK - 201 Principles of Marketing  or MG - 201 Principles of Management    3
MA - 111 Probability and Statistics  (Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Mathematical Reasoning - 2/6) or Free Elective 3 MA - 111 Probability and Statistics  (Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Mathematical Reasoning 2/6) or Free Elective 3
MK - 201 Principles of Marketing  or MG - 201 Principles of Management    3 Free Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Two

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (3/6) 3 TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (3/6) 3
Expanded Literacies (4/6) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (4/6) or Free Elective 3
MG - 220 Data Analysis  or MG - 233 Business Communication Skills   3 MG - 220 Data Analysis  or MG - 233 Business Communication Skills   3
AB - 217 Financial Accounting   3 AB - 219 Managerial Accounting   3
EC - 209 Principles of Macroeconomics  (Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Social Analysis - 5/6) 3 EC - 210 Principles of Microeconomics    3
UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy    1 UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1
TOTAL CREDITS 16 TOTAL CREDITS 16

Year Three

Fall Spring
Lens 1, 2, or 3 (1/3) 3 Lens 1, 2, or 3 (2/3) 3
AB - 272 The Legal Environment of Business   3 CS - 260 Databases & Data Visualization    3
FN - 330 Corporate Finance  or FN - 331 Financial Management   3 MG - 310 New Ventures, Inc.   3
BA - 226 Introduction to Data Analytics and AI   3 MK - 215 Sales and Sales Management   3
MG - 325 Operations Management      3 BA - 353 Data Mining and Machine Learning   3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Four

Fall Spring
Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3 Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3
Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective 3
MG - 340 International Business   3 MG - 452 Business Policy Formulation   3
BA - 452 Applied AI Platforms and Projects   3 Business Elective* 3
MK - 410 Marketing Research   3 MG - 4000 Business Capstone   1
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 13

   TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 120         

*MI 205  is accepted as a Business Elective, and strongly recommended as a free elective as well.

For more information about the requirements in our general education Connections Curriculum, which are included in the sample plan above, please see I. General Education (Connections Curriculum), which can be found in The Undergraduate Program .

**4+1 BS/MBA: The Business Department offers a Bachelor’s to Masters (4+1) program that enables qualifying students to register for MBA courses during their senior year. For more information, see the DeSales University Graduate Catalog and consult with the MBA Program Director.