2. Jones College Admission Policy-Fall 2007 Minimum 30 hours of degree credits earned (excluding Learning Support and High School Deficiencies) Completion of high school deficiencies and learning support requirements Cumulative GPA of 2.250 on all college level course-work A 2.000 average among these four designated pre-business courses (going to 2.25 for Fall 2012): ACTG 2110 ECON 2410 ECON 2420 QM 2610 Fall 2007-Summer 2012 (2.25 and 2.00) Fall 2012- (2.25 and 2.25)

3. Jones College Admission Policy Students tend to avoid taking the required MATH 1630 or 1810 which may delay admission One of these Math classes must be taken prior to QM 2610 A college-level MATH course is a required prerequisite to ACTG 2110

4. Jones College Graduation Requirements (Fall 2007---) 2.00- GPA 2.00- Major 2.00- Minor 2.00- Best 42 upper-division hours 2.00- Jones College core (ACTG, BCEN, ECON, FIN, INFS, MGMT, MKT and QM courses) 60 Senior College Hours Watch those with community college work—make sure they will have the Senior College hours

5. Admission Policy- 2011-2012 Upper-Division Form

6. Placement Testing University Studies Office (Peck Hall 202) ACT/SAT sub-scores now determines if a student needs additional testing to determine if placement in prescribed courses is required Required Prescribed (K) courses found under Academic Deficiency Summary in Pipeline

10. Catalog Available on-line at: http://catalog.mtsu.edu/http://catalog.mtsu.edu/

11. Priority Registration Registration Begins April 2 nd and continues through April 13 th New Transfer Students register beginning April 16 th Peak Registration Days April 2-Graduate April 3- 176 hours to 113 hours April 4- 112 hours to 86 hours April 5- 85 hours to 60 hours April 6-59 hours -31 hours

12. Required Advising for students with less than 30 hours University policy now requires advising for all students who have earned less than 30 hours Registration holds have been set on these students Every advisor has the ability to remove the hold

13. Advising Hold-Release

18. Immunization Hold-New Students Due to state requirements new students entering the university are required to have two doses of the Varicella Vaccine (Chicken Pox) in addition to MMR Students may not register for full-time until proof of these vaccines have been submitted

19. Degree Audit Is available for students You may use this feature to determine whether or not substitutions are needed You may use this feature to determine whether or not a student has filed an Intent to Graduate

21. US History Requirement History In accordance with the revision of the state law MTSU will accept any transfer course that met that student’s General Education requirement for HISTORY If the transfer institution did not have a History category then a combination of History courses may satisfy Only applies to TRANSFER students TBR, UT, private and out of state public and private institutions Contact Ann Reaves at ann.reaves@mtsu.eduann.reaves@mtsu.edu The appropriate adjustment will be made to the students Degree Evaluation

22. Online Advising via Skype Amanda Chambers: amanda.chambers927 Abby Davis: abby.lynn.davis Amie Donahue: amie.donahue815 Gretchen Leming: gleming1 Instructions for a Skype appointment available at : www.mtsu.edu/busadv

24. Tennessee Transfer Pathway TTPs are binding agreements which we must honor MTSU faculty representatives met with other TBR/UT personnel to develop the Transfer Paths Paths were developed for Accounting, Business Administration, Economics (BBA & BS) and Computer Information Systems http://www.tntransferpathway.org/campuses/middle- tennessee-state-university http://www.tntransferpathway.org/campuses/middle- tennessee-state-university

25. Tennessee Transfer Pathway Technical Systems is working on coding for Transcripts or under Test Scores to identify students who graduated under TTP Community Colleges now operating under common numbering Elimination of QM 2610 from some CC curriculum- will only teach MATH 1530 (Applied Statistics)

26. Tennessee Transfer Pathway Due to separate General Education criteria and specific TTP course requirements the upper-division forms for these students are going to be altered There are still questions for which we do not have answers. Those have been submitted to TBR I have customized upper-division forms for these majors that you may use.

28. Any Questions Before Moving onto Business Minors?

29. Business Minors Fall 2012 Fall 2012 students will be allowed to choose their own business minor Everyone must have at least one business minor Policy is retroactive for all catalogs: 2007-2009 2009-2011 2011-2012

30. Minors cont. The incorporated minors of Business Administration and Economics and Finance will remain attached to the program of study These will only be ‘detached’ from the program with the completed ‘elective minor’ section on the back of the upper-division form and a signature Those minors other that the incorporated will likely require more than 120 hours

31. Business Administration Minor- ACTG

32. Business Administration Minor

33. Economics and Finance Minor

34. Minors cont. The most important rule regarding these optional minors is this one: You may not use the same course in a major and a minor If the course is being calculated in the major (MAJ) then you MAY NOT use it in the minor You may crossover CORE courses

35. If the course is being calculated in the major (MAJ) then you MAY NOT use it in the minor

38. Minors cont. Degree requirements stay intact for all majors EXCEPT Business Administration: FIN 3810 or 4110 changes to Upper Division Business elective ECON 4570 changes to Upper Division Business elective

39. Business Administration Major

40. Questions?