Bachelor of Arts in Management Online

Build foundational knowledge needed to manage projects and teams in any organization with a degree that includes a comprehensive overview of all aspects of businesses and enterprises.

Apply By: 10/7/24
Start Class: 10/21/24
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Program Overview

Become a well-rounded applicant with an online BA in Management

Explore business fundamentals and leadership best practices as you earn your Bachelor of Arts in Management online from Florida Institute of Technology. In this IACBE-accredited program, you will study effective communication, critical-thinking and problem-solving strategies, psychology of leadership, and other business-related competencies required to ensure organizational effectiveness in a dynamic and competitive marketplace.

Coursework reflects a balance of theory and practice through case studies and creating a thorough business plan with a balanced budget. Required liberal arts courses and STEM-based curriculum ensure that you will also graduate with relevant technical skills. Take advantage of our streamlined admission process and complete your degree sooner.

As a graduate of this program, you will be prepared to:

  • Make effective oral presentations on business topics
  • Identify and analyze relevant facts and information in complex business situations
  • Recognize and apply fundamental concepts in management
  • Apply skills related to managing people and teams
  • Make effective oral presentations on business topics
  • Identify and analyze relevant facts and information in complex business situations
  • Recognize and apply fundamental concepts in management
  • Apply skills related to managing people and teams

Career opportunities:

  • Office manager
  • Business consultant
  • Management analyst
  • Account executive
  • Office manager
  • Business consultant
  • Management analyst
  • Account executive

Also available:

At Florida Tech, we offer a variety of in-demand online programs that prepare you with relevant skills for your career of choice. Take a look at our other undergraduate programs.

At Florida Tech, we offer a variety of in-demand online programs that prepare you with relevant skills for your career of choice. Take a look at our other undergraduate programs.

Per Credit Hour $532.50
Transfer Credits Up to 90
Credit Hours 121

Accreditation

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The Nathan M. Bisk College of Business at Florida Institute of Technology 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.

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Tuition

Payment specifics for the management BA

Tuition for the BA in Management is affordable. Take advantage of our pay-by-the-course system, so you can manage your budget as you pursue your degree. Technology fees are included in the total tuition.

Tuition breakdown:

Per Credit Hour $532.50*

Calendar

Important management bachelor’s dates to know

The BA in Management online program is ideal for working students. Choose from multiple start dates and complete your degree at the pace that best fits your schedule.

TermStart DateApp DeadlineDocument DeadlineRegistration DeadlineTuition DeadlineClass End DateTerm Length
Fall 1 20248/26/248/12/248/19/248/21/248/23/2410/20/248 weeks
Fall 2 202410/21/2410/7/2410/14/2410/16/2410/18/2412/15/248 weeks
Spring 1 20251/13/2512/30/241/6/251/8/251/10/253/9/258 weeks

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Next Apply Date 10/7/24
Start Class 10/21/24

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Admissions

Admission requirements for the online management bachelor’s program

At Florida Tech, we’ve streamlined the admission process to help you get started quickly. Please read the requirements for the BA in Management online program.


  • Completed application
  • For freshman: Official transcripts from a high school or equivalent (GED or certificate of completion, must bear date of graduation)
  • For transfers: Official transcripts from all accredited colleges/universities attended
  • Minimum GPA of 2.5

Official transcripts, test scores and other documents should be sent to:

Mail address:
Office of Admissions
150 W. University Blvd.
Melbourne, FL 32901

Admission Requirements

  • 2.5 GPA
  • No application fee
  • Official transcripts

Courses

Coursework details for your online management bachelor’s

For the BA in Management online, the curriculum comprises 121 credit hours, including 33 credit hours of general education courses, 72 credit hours of management courses, 15 credit hours of free electives and a 1 credit hour introduction course.

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 1
Helps students new to Florida Tech and online learning to adjust to the university and acquire essential academic survival skills (online classroom behavior, academic honesty, study skills, etc.) that enhance academic integration into college. Requirement for all Florida Tech Online students
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Surveys the functions and operations of business organizations in a global marketplace. Studies the structure, operation, financing, relationships and responsibilities of firms in context of current legal, social, regulatory and environmental issues. Requires critical thinking, communication, research, and individual and group problem solving.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces computer applications. Includes basic computer concepts and terminology through experience using the operating system, and word processing, spreadsheet and presentation management software.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Uses commercial software to understand the business functions of computers and develop personal competency in practical application of computers in business. Provides specific knowledge and advanced capabilities in various skills necessary for effective performance in academic and practical environments.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the financial environment, financial statements, the accounting cycle and the theoretical framework of accounting measurement, emphasizing mechanics, measurement theory and the economic environment.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Continues EAC 2211. Emphasizes understanding the role of accounting in product costing, costing for quality, cost-justifying investment decisions, and performance evaluation and control of human behavior.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Incorporates all functional business areas dealing with organizational challenges. Emphasizes decision-making processes related to strategy formulation and implementation in global settings.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the concepts that aid in understanding both aggregate economic conditions and the policy alternatives designed to stabilize national economies. Includes the determination of GDP and national income, inflation, unemployment, monetary policy, economic growth and exchange rates.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the neoclassical theory of price determination. Includes supply and demand analysis, production and cost theory, market structures, externalities and public goods, factor payments, income distribution and informational asymmetries.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Investigates the operational responsibilities of individuals in light of political, moral, social, ethical and jurisprudential considerations.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the principles of corporate financial management. Emphasizes the time value of money in investments of real or financial assets. Covers planning for current assets and liabilities, and long-range capital. Passing grade in EST 2703 Statistics is recommended.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces management as a discipline and process. Includes evolution and scope of management, decision-making, planning, strategy, organizing, staffing, leading, control, change, and the importance of management in the global environment and ethical considerations of management decisions.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Studies the important uses of information technology in organizations. Includes information requirements and flow, system design and analysis methodologies, the generation and accumulation of data for decision-making, and the implementation and control of information systems.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Studies general moral principles and their application to ethical issues and problems pertaining to business activities, and the nature of the corporation in contemporary society.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers the principles and systems related to the management and leadership of human resources. Includes legal and administrative law issues; health, safety and security; selection and placement; job analysis; training and development; compensation and benefits; and job analysis systems.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers a broad spectrum of issues critical to developing a sound base of international business skills. Includes the assessment of foreign business practices, understanding international financial and trade practices and the impact on decision-making, and strategy development and implementation.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces business research methods and techniques for composing and formatting an industry analysis. Emphasizes written communication for the business discipline and how to use library and census databases. Requires synthesis of information from multiple sources and production of senior-level business analysis. First in a two-course sequence.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Focuses on applying business research methods learned in EMG 4005 to produce a new venture concept and actionable business plan as second in a two-course sequence. Emphasizes critical thinking and business analysis tools (marketing, and operational, financial, organizational and strategic analysis). Introduces business presentation techniques.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Provides a contemporary approach to organization and management philosophy, theory, concepts and applications. Focuses on improving quality, productivity and competitive position through a realistic, relevant and sweeping view of the body-of-knowledge needed by operating managers to improve systems and processes.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Studies human behavior in organizations. Blends newer concepts of behavior theory with classical organizational theory. Includes methods for bringing change to organizations.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Provides the fundamental principles in the marketing of goods, services and ideas. Includes planning, pricing, promotions and distribution. Focuses on global marketing, marketing ethics and managing the marketing function.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the research and application of the essential competencies of effective leadership such as managing conflict, facilitating communication and leading groups and teams.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers the many ways psychology is applied in organizations to improve performance and quality of work life. Includes employee selection and personnel law, performance management, training, motivation, job attitudes, stress, teamwork, leadership and organizational development.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The first of two courses in college-level writing skills. Focuses on writing essays using various rhetorical modes: persuasion, description, comparison and analysis. Presents basic methods of library research, as well as the MLA documentation system. Students write one research paper and several essays.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Continues work begun in WRI 1000 First-Year Writing 1. Includes study in rhetorical analysis and the conventions of various genres. Also includes intensive instruction in writing and revision of work that culminates in a research paper.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The second of two courses in college-level writing skills. Focuses on reading and analyzing poems, plays and short works of fiction. Students write several essays and one research paper on literary topics.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Practice in the technical and scientific writing style and format, including gathering and using data to prepare reports. Includes abstracts, reports, letters, technical descriptions, proposals and at least two oral presentations.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Designed for the future business professional. Includes business research methods, report writing, business correspondence and communication in the workplace. Covers analytical, informational, routine and special reports.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces civilization from its early development to the European Renaissance. Emphasizes the interpretation of primary texts that reflect the intellectual and historical changes in society. The first of two interdisciplinary courses
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Similar in purpose and method to HUM 2051, continues the interpretation of primary texts, emphasizing the Renaissance period, the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Modern Age.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the major ideas, ideals and events that have determined the American experience in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Surveys key philosophical problems that occupied philosophers in the modern period and today. Emphasizes the analysis of theories by modern and contemporary philosophers on issues such as the nature of knowledge, facts versus values, personal identity, and consciousness in their historical context.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Elementary coverage of discrete mathematics. Includes logical arguments, mathematical induction in proofs, sets and relations (extension to functions and their properties), elementary counting principles (inclusion-exclusion), permutations and combinations.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Real-number system; arithmetic operations with polynomials, special products and factoring; linear, fractional and quadratic equations; inequalities, exponents, radicals and absolute values; functions and graphs; and complex numbers, logarithms, logarithmic and exponential functions
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Emphasizes mathematical concepts. Includes measures of central tendency and spread; probability; binomial, normal and t distributions; statistical inference; and linear regression and correlation.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Presents basic aeronautical factors affecting aircraft design and performance. Major topics include atmospheric properties, lift, drag, thrust, aircraft performance, stability and control, high-speed aerodynamics, operating strength limitations, and aerodynamics of specific flying problems.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the concepts and applications of the physical sciences for non-science majors. Includes the processes and history of science, thermodynamics, electricity, waves, chemical reactions, nuclear energy, relativity and the formation of the Earth and the universe.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the concepts and applications of the biological sciences for non-science majors. Includes cell structure, function and reproduction, genetics and genetic engineering, evolution and the environmen
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers topics essential for understanding our universe in the 21st century. Introduces astronomy concepts for nonscience majors. Includes principles that demonstrate the size of Earth and our solar system, the age of Earth, the origin of the elements and the age of our universe. Also includes how humans may colonize off-Earth locations.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Includes a survey of physics, chemistry and astronomy including motion, forces, energy, electricity, waves, the metric system and the application of science and technology to everyday living.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Facilitates student understanding of laws, phenomena and processes of cellular and human biology, and to address selected current topics in ecology and environmental science.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the concepts that aid in understanding both aggregate economic conditions and the policy alternatives designed to stabilize national economies. Includes the determination of GDP and national income, inflation, unemployment, monetary policy, economic growth and exchange rates.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the neoclassical theory of price determination. Includes supply and demand analysis, production and cost theory, market structures, externalities and public goods, factor payments, income distribution and informational asymmetries.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Explores how scientific investigators explain the natural world. Provides an overview of the history of science and mathematics to broaden comprehension. Puts work in science and mathematics pedagogy in historical context. Improves writing, research and analysis skills.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the major ideas, ideals and events that have determined the American experience in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Explores the basic questions concerning human nature, human behavior, crime and criminality from the perspectives of sociological, psychological and criminological theories.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Overviews psychological processes, including both areas in which psychology is a natural science (physiological psychology, sensation and perception, basic learning and cognition) and a social science (motivation, human development, personality, social interaction, psychopathology and psychotherapy).
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the relevance of psychological understanding in personal and interpersonal situations, including definitions and discussions of human adjustment factors, such as anxiety, stress, coping mechanisms and psychological adaptation.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines experimental evidence on the physical, physiological and psychological effects of drug use and conclusions relating to the real vs. alleged effects of drugs.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Integrates and presents biological, psychosocial and cultural aspects of human sexuality within the context of the most recent research findings.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Surveys the theory, research and applications of psychology pertaining to exercise and sports. Presents current topics and issues relevant to sport psychology.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Surveys the areas of social psychology as it has evolved in American psychology, including its history, methods and theories of intrapersonal, interpersonal and group behavior. Reviews sociological approaches to social psychology and cultural processes that affect social phenomena.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Overviews the major theoretical approaches to personality development and research in the field.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Overviews psychological principles, theories and research pertaining to the developing child from conception through early adolescence. Includes biological and environmental influences on affective, cognitive, moral, social and personality development.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the research and application of the essential competencies of effective leadership such as managing conflict, facilitating communication and leading groups and teams.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers the many ways psychology is applied in organizations to improve performance and quality of work life. Includes employee selection and personnel law, performance management, training, motivation, job attitudes, stress, teamwork, leadership and organizational development.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines psychological disorders, including theories for their development, symptomology and system of classification.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Overviews clinical psychology and community psychology. Reviews methods of clinical assessment and treatment of behavioral disorders. Presents the concepts of community psychology as they have developed from the fields of psychology, social work and public administration
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Offers an interdisciplinary viewpoint of the many ways in which human beings function as individuals, members of larger groups and members of particular cultures. Explores the disciplines of sociology, psychology and criminology in seeking to understand and explore human behavior.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Surveys various global issues arising since World War II. Combines history, political science and economics. Emphasizes the interaction of the superpowers during the Cold War, the post-colonial emergence of the Third World, the ascendancy of regional and international economic and political institutions and the reshaping of contemporary Europe.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the contemporary social issues such as poverty, unemployment, energy, pollution, sexual deviance, drugs and crime. Includes causes, interactions, policy and possible solutions
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