The Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is a bachelor’s degree in business studies. In most universities, the degree is conferred upon a student after four years of full-time study (120 credit hours) in one or more areas of business concentrations. The BBA program usually includes general business courses and advanced courses for specific concentrations. Some colleges and universities call the BBA a BSBA (Bachelor of Science in Business Administration), however, the requirements and course content are the same.
Business administration programs may be accredited to indicate that the school’s educational curriculum meets specific quality standards. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) is generally regarded as being the most prestigious business program accreditation, covering business schools worldwide.
BBA programs expose students to a variety of subjects: accounting, business law and ethics, economics, finance, management information systems, marketing, operations management, organizational behaviorand management,mathematics, statistics, and strategy.
The Bachelor of Business Administration programs allow students to specialize or concentrate in a particular academic area as follows:
* Accounting
* Aviation Management
* Economics
* Entrepreneurship
* Finance
* Human Resources
* International Business
* Management
* Management information system
* Marketing
* Operations management
* Real Estate
* Business Law
According to the U.S. News & World Report America’s Best Colleges 2007 [1] the top Undergraduate Business Programs in the USA were (please note that a sizable portion of these programs do not offer a BBA):
1. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
3. University of California, Berkeley (Haas)
3. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) (Ross)
According to BusinessWeek 2007 Rankings, the top Undergraduate Business programs were (once again, these programs do not necessarily offer a BBA):
1. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
2. University of Virginia (McIntire)
3. University of California, Berkeley (Haas)
4. Emory University (Goizueta)
5. University of Michigan (Ross)
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
7. Notre Dame (Mendoza)
8. Brigham Young University (Marriott)
9. New York University (Stern)
10. Cornell University (Dept. of Applied Economics and Management)
11. Georgetown University (McDonough)
12. Villanova University (School of Business)
13. University of Texas at Austin (McCombs)
14. Boston College (Carroll)
15. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
16. Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)
17. Wake Forest University (Calloway)
18. Indiana University (Kelley)
19. University of Southern California (Marshall)
20. Lehigh University (College of Business and Economics)