For ACCT, FINA, MNGT, and MRKT BBA students,[1] we offer specialized certificates in:
- Energy Business,
- Healthcare Management,
- and Digital Commerce (new in 2020).
If the student doesn’t finish the BBA or changes their degree to something else, they are not awarded the certificate. Students who already have a BBA from UTPB or an equivalent business degree from another university can come back and take courses to get the certificate added to their degree.
REQUIREMENTS
The student must complete 12 hours of designated electives and earn a C or better in each course. These electives are applied to the students degree as major electives and business electives.
Note that some certificates allow the student to take non-business courses. These must be applied as business electives, not major electives. Note also that if the student does not complete the certificate, those non-business courses can no longer be used as business electives. That is, we allow certain non-business courses in the BBA only if they were taken as part of a completed certificate program.
Cerificate in Energy Business (12 hours)
| Choose 4 | 12 hours |
| ACCT 4310 | Oil and Gas Accounting |
| FINA 4331 | Energy Finance |
| MNGT 3309 | Energy Management |
| MNGT 4309 | Landman Principles |
| MNGT 4324 | Energy Law |
| MNGT 4325 | Environmental Law & Regulation in the Energy Industry |
| MNGT 4350 | Negotiation |
| MRKT 4305 | Energy Marketing |
| PTEC 3301 | Petroleum Fundamentals |
Certificate in Healthcare Management (12 hours)
| Choose 3 | 9 hours |
| ACCT /MNGT 3334 | Healthcare Management Information Systems |
| ACCT 4334 | Accounting for Healthcare |
| FINA 4333 | Healthcare Finance |
| MNGT 4331 | Healthcare Management |
| MNGT 4336 | Healthcare Law |
| MRKT 4335 | Healthcare Marketing |
| Choose 1 | 3 hours |
| ACCT 4334 | Accounting for Healthcare |
| COMM 4351 | Health Communications |
| FINA 4333 | Healthcare Finance |
| MNGT 3334 | Healthcare Management Information Systems |
| MNGT 4331 | Healthcare Management |
| MNGT 4336 | Healthcare Law |
| MRKT 4335 | Healthcare Marketing |
| NURS 4313 | Multi-Cultural Public Health Nursing |
| NURS 4452 | Global Health Nursing |
| PSYC 4307 | Health Psychology |
| PUBH 3300 | Essentials of Healthcare Policy and Law |
| PUBH 4300 | Essentials of Epidemiology |
| PUBH 4301 | Essentials of Environmental Health |
| SOCI 4362 | Sociology of Health and Illness |
Certificate in Digital Commerce (12 hours)
| Choose 4 | 12 hours |
| 4300 | MRKT 4300 |
| 4301 | MRKT 4301 |
| 4302 | MRKT 4302 |
| 4303 | MRKT 4303 |
| 4304 | MRKT 4304 |
| 4322 | MRKT 4322 |
It is important to note that the Certificate in Digital Commerce was designed for MRKT majors. The MRKT degree plan is really the only BBA degree plan that has room for four MRKT electives. Any ACCT, FINA, or MNGT majors who would like to pursue the Certificate in Digital Commerce would have to go beyond the 120 hours for the degree in order to get that many MRKT electives.
Footnotes
- I suppose Healthcare and Landman majors could do certificates, but their degree plans don't have the room for the necessary classes. The certificates were designed to supplement the original, less-specialized BBA majors, not the specialized majors that grew out of them (i.e., HLCM and ENLM). ↵