Dive deeply into calculus, probability, statistics and more by combining mathematics with your business studies.
In the BS combined Mathematics and Business Administration degree program, business and mathematics courses lay the groundwork for strong basic training in finance. Finance is a required concentration if you choose this program.
A combined major combines two majors in a way that allows a student to fulfill all requirements within the standard 8 academic semesters. For details, see the BS in Business Administration and Mathematics program requirements.
This degree can be accomplished using either the four- or five-year co-op plan. There are also business concentrations and business minors to help you customize your unique Northeastern educational experience.
The curriculum below is an abbreviated sample of the business administration academic requirements for the Business Administration and Mathematics degree. Please refer to the program information in the Registrar's Undergraduate Catalog for the full curriculum appropriate to your class year. Course numbers and titles are subject to change.
Complete one of the following co-op preparation courses:
Professional Development for Business Co-opBUSN 1103. Professional Development for Business Co-op. 1 Hour.
Introduces students to the Cooperative Education Program and provides them with an opportunity to develop job-search and career-management skills. Offers students an opportunity to perform assessments of their workplace skills, interests, and values and discuss how they impact personal career choices. Students also have an opportunity to prepare a professional-style résumé, learn proper interviewing techniques, and gain an understanding of the opportunities available to them for co-op. Introduces career paths, choices, professional behaviors, work culture, and career decision making. Familiarizes students with workplace issues relative to their field of study and teaches them to use myNEU in the job-search and referral process. Presents co-op policies, procedures, and expectations of the Department of Cooperative Education and co-op employers.
Professional Development for Co-opEESC 2000. Professional Development for Co-op. 1 Hour.
Introduces students to the Cooperative Education Program and provides them with an opportunity to develop job-search and career-management skills. Offers students an opportunity to perform assessments of their workplace skills, interests, and values and discuss how they impact personal career choices. Students also have an opportunity to prepare a professional-style résumé, learn proper interviewing techniques, and gain an understanding of the opportunities available to them for co-op. Introduces career paths, choices, professional behaviors, work culture, and career decision making. Familiarizes students with workplace issues relative to their field of study and teaches them to use myNEU in the job-search and referral process. Presents co-op policies, procedures, and expectations of the Department of Cooperative Education and co-op employers.
Complete this integrative course:
Financial Risk ManagementFINA 4512. Financial Risk Management. 4 Hours.
Explores the concepts of financial futures, options on financial futures, and listed options markets as developed to help corporations and financial institutions manage financial risk. Covers financial derivatives and standard hedging techniques first, followed by a study of market risk and strategies in managing market risk.
ACCT 1201. Financial Accounting and Reporting. 4 Hours.
Covers the basic concepts underlying financial statements and the accounting principles followed in the preparation of the balance sheet, the income statement, and the statement of cash flows. Offers students an opportunity to become familiar with accounting terminology and methods designed to enable them to interpret, analyze, and evaluate published corporate financial reports. Wherever appropriate, the course relates current economic, business, and global events to accounting issues. Analyzes how financial reporting concepts affect the behavior of investors, creditors, and other external users. Emphasizes the importance of ethics in financial reporting. Requires second-semester-freshman standing or above.
Managerial AccountingACCT 2301. Managerial Accounting. 4 Hours.
Focuses on the development and use of information—especially financial information—for managerial decisions within the firm. Introduces managerial accounting concepts, analyses, and practices that support business decisions through class discussions, exercises, and case analysis. Topics include budgeting, cost management and behavior, cost-volume-profit analysis, relevant costs for decision making, cost allocation issues, and performance evaluation. Emphasizes the importance of ethics.
Financial ManagementFINA 2201. Financial Management. 4 Hours.
Designed to develop the financial skills and logical thought processes necessary to understand and discuss financial policy decisions in a global economy. Specific objectives include developing an understanding of the time value of money; using financial statements in decision making; and understanding the nature of financial markets, the cost of capital, valuation of stocks and bonds, management of short-term assets, short-term and long-term financing, capital markets, and multinational financial management. Addresses the impact of legal, social, technological, and ethical considerations on efficient economic outcomes. Requires a financial calculator and provides an opportunity to develop computer spreadsheet skills.
Introduction to MarketingMKTG 2201. Introduction to Marketing. 4 Hours.
Provides an overview of the role of marketing in business and society. Considers the planning, implementation, and evaluation of marketing efforts in consumer and business-to-business companies, in service and goods companies, and in for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Also examines contemporary issues in marketing that can affect organizational success. A term project is used to enable students to apply their learning about the fundamentals of marketing.
Organizational BehaviorORGB 3201. Organizational Behavior. 4 Hours.
Provides an overview of the actions and behaviors of people in organizations. Uses case studies, videos, experiential exercises, lectures, and discussions to explore the effects of individual, interpersonal, group, organizational, and cross-cultural factors on human behavior. Topics include groups and teams, motivation, leadership, organizational change, organizational culture, structure, conflict resolution, and communication. Both the underlying theories and principles of these topics, as well as their practical applications and implications for organizations, are covered.
International Business and Global Social ResponsibilityINTB 1203. International Business and Global Social Responsibility. 4 Hours.
Introduces the student to forces and issues confronted in our era of rapid globalization. Managers must understand forces from interconnected social, political, and economic national environments that affect their company's operations. At the same time they need to draw on their ethical foundations to address and act on social responsibility imperatives across national borders.
Strategy in ActionSTRT 4501. Strategy in Action. 4 Hours.
Provides for the integration and application of administrative theory, knowledge, skills, and experiences for effective strategic performance in an organization. Offers students an opportunity to acquire a better understanding of the relevance and limitations of business and management concepts and techniques when making and implementing strategic decisions.
A fast-changing business world is putting finance front and center, with financial knowledge seen as essential to effective management.
The Finance concentration is required for graduation, but you may also choose to do a second Business concentration:
Accounting is a dynamic profession that requires people to possess sound technical knowledge, critical thinking skills, superior interpersonal skills, and the ability to communicate effectively.
A fast-changing business world is putting finance front and center, with financial knowledge seen as essential to effective management.
Working in healthcare requires knowledge and skills in several cutting-edge areas such as service delivery innovation, process and quality improvement, talent management, analytics, and supply chain management.
Available as a second concentration only.
Possessing a knowledge of how people, firms, and institutions interact across borders provides International Business concentrators with a competitive edge.
Effective managers must know the business, be interpersonally competent, behave ethically, and diagnose human and organizational dynamics.
Product design, research, pricing, packaging, transportation, advertising, selling, and servicing: marketing impacts every one of these essential aspects of business.
Learn the cutting-edge skills necessary to harness, process, and analyze data to address modern marketing challenges.
All companies that produce, sell, or distribute products have a supply chain management function that must be effectively managed to be competitive.
Note: One six-month co-op experience is required for this program.
A cooperative education experience, or Co-op, is the cornerstone experiential learning opportunity for D'Amore-McKim students.
Be prepared for success in fields like public relations, marketing communications, and digital media.
Hone your interactive design skills while developing business and marketing mastery in the business school.
Get your business degree while diving deep into macroeconomic theory, applied econometrics, and more.
Get the unique opportunity to better understand the business side of the health care industry in Massachusetts, which is home to some of the best hospitals and medical research companies in the U.S.
Dive deeply into calculus, probability, statistics and more by combining mathematics with your business studies.
Get your business degree while immersing yourself in comparative politics, international relations, and more.
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From database design to distributed networks, learn computer science in conjuction with your business studies.
Students can complete business major requirements while also focusing on the conceptual and practical computer science skills that will enable them to contribute to ensuring the reliability and security of cyberspace.
Study the collection, manipulation, storage, retrieval, and computational analysis of data in its various forms to aid your success in business.
Northeastern students outside of D'Amore-McKim can get a broad overview of the business world, including an introduction to the key functional areas of business administration.
A minor designed to provide students with a solid foundation in the skills and concepts needed to succeed in a consulting-oriented environment.
The minor in emerging markets introduces students to the challenges and opportunities that face companies in countries that are rapidly developing into more developed world economies.
Northeastern students outside of D'Amore-McKim can gain a deeper understanding of brands, current markets trends, and consumers.
Northeastern students outside of D'Amore-McKim can learn the cutting-edge skills necessary to harness, process, and analyze data to address modern marketing challenges.
D'Amore-McKim business majors assume the role of a leader and focus the direction of an organization with strategy in mind.
Develop a deeper understanding of sustainability issues and the business tools needed to address complex environmental issues.
