It is the student's responsibility to ensure that selected courses satisfy academic requirements. Students are strongly encouraged to confer with their Newcomb-Tulane academic advisers and their academic coordinators in the business school at least once each semester, usually just before registration, to ensure that all graduation requirements are met.
Newcomb-Tulane College Core: 39-47 credit hours
Writing
Foreign Language
Scientific Inquiry [Quantitative Reasoning and Physical/Life Science]
Cultural Knowledge [Humanities/Fine Arts and Social Sciences]
Public Service*
TIDES*
Capstone Experience
Required Non-business Courses: 19-21 credit hours
Math 1150 or 1210 - Calculus
Math 1140 - Business Statistics
ECON 1010 or ECON 1030
ECON 1020 or ECON 1040
PSYC 1000, PSYC 1010, or PSYC 1020
TIDB 1010 (or 1020)* and TIDB 1110*
*Students who successfully complete TIDB 1010 or 1020 and TIDB 1110 will satisfy the Newcomb-Tulane College TIDES and the first public service requirements.
Required Freeman School Courses: 31 credit hours
ACCN 2010 Financial Accounting
ACCN 3010 Managerial Accounting
MKTG 3010 Marketing Fundamentals
FINE 3010 Financial Management
INFO 1010 Introduction to Business Computing
INFO 3010 Business Modeling
LGST 3010 Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Environment of Business
MGMT 3010 Organizational Behavior
MCOM 3010 Management Communication
MGMT 3010 Strategic Management
MGMT 4900 Business Capstone Experience
Career Management Sessions (4 sessions required)
PLUS: Major-Specific Requirements
In addition to the above requirements, BSM students must also complete major-specific requirements (click appropriate link below):
Accounting Major
Marketing Major
Finance
Legal Studies in Business Major
Management Major
The accounting major focuses on the development and interpretation of financial information critical to management decision making. Students learn about generating, evaluating, and using financial information for external and internal reporting, taxation, and decision making. The accounting curriculum prepares students for careers in public or corporate accounting and provides excellent preparation for the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) examination. Students interested in corporate or tax law may also wish to pursue an accounting major.
If you have questions regarding the accounting major or course content, please contact Professor Beau Parent at (504) 865-5490 or bparent@tulane.edu.
To earn the BSM degree with a transcript designation as an accounting major, students must complete the following courses in addition to the Newcomb-Tulane College Core courses, required non-business courses, and required Freeman School courses:
Required Accounting Major Courses: 18 credit hours
ACCN 3100 Intermediate Accounting I
ACCN 4100 Auditing
ACCN 4110 Intermediate Accounting II
ACCN 4120 Advanced Financial Accounting
LGST 4100 Business Law
TAXN 4100 Business Taxation
Plus one of the following three courses: 3 credit hours
ACCN 4130 Financial Statement Analysis
ACCN 4140 Advanced Managerial Accounting
ACCN 4150 Accounting Information Systems
PLUS electives needed to bring total to 122 credit hours
It is the student's responsibility to ensure that selected courses satisfy academic requirements. Students are strongly encouraged to confer with their academic advisors to ensure that all requirements are met.
CPA EXAM: Be aware that the CPA requirements for candidates registering in the state of Louisiana indicate that 150 hours of college/university credit are required in addition to meeting specific accounting and business requirements. Other states currently or will soon require 150 credit hours as well. The Freeman School provides a one-year Master of Accounting program for students wishing to meet the 150 credit hour requirement through a fifth year of study. For more information about requirements in other states, contact the state board of accounting where you plan to practice.
The marketing major exposes students to the necessary theoretical and applied frameworks to analyze marketing problems from a managerial viewpoint. Students majoring in marketing can pursue careers domestically or internationally in specialized areas such as brand management, sales, advertising and promotion, public relations, marketing research and new product and service development.
If you have questions regarding the marketing major or course content, please contact Professor Harish Sujan at hsujan@tulane.edu.
To earn the BSM degree with a transcript designation as a marketing major, students must complete the following courses in addition to the Newcomb-Tulane College Core courses, required non-business courses, and required Freeman School courses:
Required Marketing Major Courses
Five of the following courses: 15 credit hours
MKTG 4100 Consumer Behavior
MKTG 4110 Market Research
MKTG 4120 Marketing Strategy
MKTG 4220 Sales Force Management
MKTG 4230 International Marketing
MKTG 4240 Relationship Marketing
MKTG 4260 Advertising and Brand Promotion
MKTG 4600 Cases in Marketing
MKTG 4610 Research Design and Applications in Behavioral Sciences (Honors)
MGMT 4170 Negotiations
PLUS electives needed to bring total to 122 credit hours
It is the student's responsibility to ensure that selected courses satisfy academic requirements. Students are strongly encouraged to confer with their academic advisors to ensure that all requirements are met.
The finance major takes an integrated approach to concepts of valuation, investment, and financial structure in management. Many finance majors begin their careers in corporate finance, commercial banking, or as analysts in investment banking firms. Finance is a broad area and tends to overlap a number of more specialized fields, such as securities and insurance.
If you have questions regarding the finance major or course content, please contact Professor Sheri Tice at stice@tulane.edu.
To earn the BSM degree with a transcript designation as a finance major, students must complete the following courses in addition to the Newcomb-Tulane College Core courses, required non-business courses, and required Freeman School courses:
Required Finance Major Courses: 12 credit hours
ACCN 3100 Intermediate Accounting I
FINE 4100 Advanced Financial Management
FINE 4110 Investments in Equities
FINE 4120 Analysis of Fixed Income Securities
Plus three of the following courses: 9 credit hours
FINE 4130 Venture Capital and Private Equity
FINE 4140 Risk Management
FINE 4150 International Finance
FINE 4160 Equity Analysis/Burkenroad Reports
FINE 4170 Financial Modeling
FINE 4600 Cases in Financial Management
FINE 4610 Darwin Fenner Student Managed Fund Honors Seminar
LGST 4140 Insurance and Risk Management
PLUS electives needed to bring total to 122 credit hours
It is the student's responsibility to ensure that selected courses satisfy academic requirements. Students are strongly encouraged to confer with their academic advisors to ensure that all requirements are met.
The legal studies in business major provides exceptional preparation either for law school or for a career that requires a legal background, such as careers in human resources, insurance, real estate, or government services to name a few. Through this major, students learn legal concepts and terminology, utilize legal research techniques, and practice legal writing. As a result, students are better equipped to confront the challenges of law school or a career that blends business and legal knowledge. Course offerings explore the intersections of law and business concepts such as human resources, real estate, insurance, finance, contracts, e-commerce, business taxation and global operations and make the legal studies in business major an excellent choice for students interested in careers in these areas.
If you have questions regarding the legal studies in business major or course content, please contact Professor Mike Hogg at mhogg@tulane.edu.
To earn the BSM degree with a transcript designation as a legal studies in business major, students must complete the following courses in addition to the Newcomb-Tulane College Core courses, required non-business courses, and required Freeman School courses:
Required Legal Studies in Business Major Courses: 6 credit hours
LGST 4100 Business Law
LGST 4110 Legal Writing and Research
Plus three of the following courses: 9 credit hours
LGST 4120 International Business Law
LGST 4130 Fraud Prevention and Investigation
LGST 4140 Insurance and Risk Management
LGST 4150 Real Estate Law
LGST 4160 Law of E-Commerce
LGST 4170 Employment Law for Human Resource Professionals
LGST 4180 Sports and Entertainment Law
LGST 4210 & 4220 Moot Court
MGMT 4170 Negotiations
TAXN 4100 Business Taxation
Students seeking admission to law school must complete the for-credit review of the LSAT.
PLUS electives needed to bring total to 122 credit hours
It is the student's responsibility to ensure that selected courses satisfy academic requirements. Students are strongly encouraged to confer with their academic advisors to ensure that all requirements are met.
Management encompasses a series of interrelated steps taken by firms and their leaders to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage over their competitors. These steps include analyzing and understanding the competitive forces in the environment in which the organization operates, and assessing and developing the material and human resources and capabilities that the firm needs in order to improve individual, group, and organizational performance. Management majors will acquire knowledge and skills that will help them in their career efforts to be consultants to organization leaders, providers of strategic, product, and human resource planning support, and entrepreneurs managing new ventures. Students pursuing management majors select a career track - either consulting or entrepreneurship. The consulting track focuses on organizational issues faced by managers including ethics, negotiations, and conflict resolutions. The entrepreneurship track focuses on the skills and tasks that a manager performs in managing the total business enterprise.
If you have questions regarding the management major or course content, please contact Professor Laura Cardinal at cardinal@tulane.edu.
To earn the BSM degree with a transcript designation as a management major - consulting track, students must complete the following courses in addition to the Newcomb-Tulane College Core courses, required non-business courses, and required Freeman School courses:
Required Management Major - Consulting Track Courses: 15 credit hours
MGMT 4120 Corporate and Cooperative Strategy
MGMT 4150 Environment, Society, and Capitalism
MGMT 4170 Negotiations
MGMT 4180 Management of Technology and Innovation
MGMT 4600 Strategic Consulting
PLUS electives needed to bring total to 122 credit hours
It is the student's responsibility to ensure that selected courses satisfy academic requirements. Students are strongly encouraged to confer with their academic advisors to ensure that all requirements are met.
To earn the BSM degree with a transcript designation as a management major - entrepreneurship track, students must complete the following courses in addition to the Newcomb-Tulane College Core courses, required non-business courses, and required Freeman School courses:
Required Management Major - Entrepreneurship Track Courses: 15 credit hours
MGMT 4120 Corporate and Cooperative Strategy
MGMT 4150 Environment, Society, and Capitalism
MGMT 4180 Management of Technology and Innovation
FINE 4130 Venture Capital and Private Equity
MGMT 4610 Entrepreneurship: Managing New Venture Creation
PLUS electives needed to bring total to 122 credit hours
It is the student's responsibility to ensure that selected courses satisfy academic requirements. Students are strongly encouraged to confer with their academic advisors to ensure that all requirements are met.
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