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Program Overview
Why our online bachelor’s degree in business management stands out
The 100% online Bachelor of Arts in Management program prepares you for exciting opportunities as a business administrator, an entrepreneur, or a leader in nonprofit or commercial organizations. Coursework combines general and international business acumen with a focus on psychology, diversity, human resources, and organizational behavior.
Gain valuable experience with the online bachelor’s degree in management specialized capstone course, which provides guidance from faculty while you create a business plan that incorporates a company's mission statement with its various sectors: HR, marketing, finance, and sales. Faculty also offers personalized attention and is committed to your development as a whole person, helping you become an effective, compassionate leader.
Career opportunities:
- Retail Manager
- General Manager
- Sales Associate
- Customer Service
- Retail Manager
- General Manager
- Sales Associate
- Customer Service
Personalized learning experience
You will receive a personalized learning experience online. Faculty regularly engages in value-added comments and feedback providing the same level of instruction as if you were in person.
Tuition
How Avila makes a B.A. in Management online program affordable
The B.A. in Management online program tuition is the same affordable, pay-as-you-go rate for all U.S. residents. Fees are included in the total tuition, and financial aid may be available.
Plus, a Prior Learning Assessment evaluates knowledge gained outside traditional academic environments and may help reduce your tuition and time to completion.
Program | Per Credit Hour | Per Course |
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B.A. Management | $290 | $870 |
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Calendar
When to apply, when classes start, when tuition is due
Ideal for working professionals, the B.A. in Management online program features 8-week courses and multiple start dates each year, so you can begin at the time that works best for you. View the full calendar for all upcoming starts and corresponding deadlines.
Term | Start Date | App Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline | Class End Date | Term Length |
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Spring 1 2025 | 1/6/25 | 12/20/24 | 12/20/24 | 1/3/25 | 1/6/25 | 3/2/25 | 8 weeks |
Spring 2 2025 | 3/3/25 | 2/26/25 | 2/26/25 | 2/28/25 | 3/3/25 | 5/4/25 | 8 weeks |
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Admissions
Steps to being admitted to our bachelor’s in management online program
We’ve simplified the admission process to help you get started quickly and easily. You can find all requirements for admission to the Avila online B.A. in Management below.
Admission Requirements:
- Official transcripts
- 2.0 GPA in prior coursework
- Transfer up to 90 credits
In order to be eligible to receive a bachelor’s degree from Avila University, you must have the following:
- High school diploma
- Minimum 2.0 GPA on college coursework or 2.0 GPA on high school conferred transcript
- Official transcripts from all institutions previously attended
Submit all official transcripts to:
Email: [email protected]
Mail: Undergraduate Admissions
Avila University
11901 Wornall Road
Kansas City, MO 64145
Courses
The degree plan for our B.A. in Management online program
In order to earn the B.A. in Management online, you will complete 120 credit hours, including 35 credit hours of general education requirements, 60 credit hours of major requirements, and 25 credit hours of electives.
Course objectives:
- Develop and maintain interpersonal, small group and public communication skills for use in a career and social context.
- Apply verbal and non-verbal components of oral communication to real life situations.
Course objectives:
- Use the computer to generate multiple drafts and demonstrate writing as a process.
- Strengthen skills in the construction and logical development of a clear and concise thesis.
Course objectives:
- Identify and explain the significance of major works of art.
- Recognize & describe the aesthetic elements which mark selected periods & artists.
Course objectives:
- Identify the basic molecules of life and to predict their properties and reactions.
- Connect the genetics of all biological life and understand the basic flow of genetic information.
Course objectives:
- Appreciate the aesthetic qualities of literary texts and develop an awareness of influential critical and interpretive methods
- Analyze and interpret works from different historical and cultural traditions using appropriate critical terms of literary analysis and responding to questions about genre, style, and content or theme
Course objectives:
- Knowledge: Identify and characterize the major questions of United States and World history in terms of continuity and change using relevant political, economic, social, religious, and cultural institutions, traditions, and beliefs.
- Theory: Demonstrate an understanding of the effects of race, gender, class, ethnicity, or religion on the experiences of ordinary and extraordinary people of the past using current historical theory and methodology.
Course objectives:
- Perform operation with real numbers. Evaluate algebraic expressions.
- Solve and apply linear equations and inequalities.
Course objectives:
- Obtain knowledge of basic ethical theories and how they apply to all areas of live: personal, professional and societal.
- Recognize the differences between moral absolutism, relativism and pluralism.
Course objectives:
- Develop an understanding of the sociological perspective
- Compare and contrast the major concepts, ideas and methods of sociology
Course objectives:
- Learn the primary features of the major world religious systems, with special focus on scriptures, social and cultural formations, history, myths and rituals, ethics, and the category “sacred”
- Learn to interrogate the methodologies used in discussing the categories of “world religions” and “religious experience,” with particular focus on the role that dominant narratives and elite discourses play in the formation of these systems
Course objectives:
- Examine the development of peace research and peace studies over the last 50 years.
- Understand the breadth and scope of the interdisciplinary field of peace studies.
Course objectives:
- Describe the nature of accounting & its use in the business world.
- Explain the concepts & principles that underlie accounting & provide the basics for external reporting.
Course objectives:
- Apply basic accounting principles in recording and reporting a firm’s activities and their application to business decision-making
- Prepare financial statements and analyze relationships on the statements in evaluating business performance
Course objectives:
- Demonstrate knowledge of local and global business organizations through the study of major disciplines within the fields of business.
- Diagram the state and federal legal systems and explain how civil and criminal cases proceed through the systems.
- Explain how law is an expression of social, political and economic forces.
- Evaluate the law as an expression of ethical, social, political and economic forces.
- Recognize legal issues in personal and professional situations and use legal concepts and terminology to explain them.
- Identify and research appropriate legal resources to assist in analyzing situations with legal implications in personal and professional life.
- Critically analyze business and personal situations from a legal perspective.
- Identify influential frameworks for problem solving and ethical decision making.
- Make personal and professional decisions that appropriately use legal knowledge.
- Explain the importance of contracts in the American Society.
- Recognize and discuss the legal issues in contract formation, performance, breach of contract and remedies.
- Recognize and discuss the various crimes and torts that may arise in business situations.
- Discuss the legal implications of organizing a business as a sole proprietorship, a partnership or a corporation.
- Explain the function, structure and interrelationship of the legal, political, social and economic systems in the United States.
Course objectives:
- Demonstrate knowledge of local and global business organizations through the study of major disciplines within the fields of business.
- Apply methods of quantitative data analysis to support organizational decision-making processes.
Course objectives:
- Clarify and articulate a personal value system as a framework for ethical decision-making and behavior.
- Participate in group interaction to achieve an identified goal.
Course objectives:
- Operate a computer using productivity applications to accomplish tasks
- Show knowledge of social and ethical issues relating to computer use
Course objectives:
- Explain the basic functioning of the functions of supply and demand as well as draw supply and demand curves and manipulate these curves when performing economic analysis.
- Identify and apply the determinants of supply and determinants of demand.
Course objectives:
- Explain how the economy operates and will be able to identify the determinants of aggregate levels of economic activity.
- Identify the tools used by the government and by the Federal Reserve to influence the economy. Student will also know how changes in these policy tools affect individual economic behavior.
Course objectives:
- Organize data into appropriate graphical and tabular representations.
- Calculate and interpret measures of central tendency and dispersion.
Course objectives:
- Write a clear, well developed, effectively organized, and convincingly reasoned paper.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the values of many diverse Americans and of the writing strategies successful authors use to communicate ideas clearly through reading and responding.
Course objectives:
- Understand the principles of finance and basic legal forms of the business organization.
- Describe financial markets and discuss interest rate theory.
Course objectives:
- The roles of marketing in society, industry, and the individualized firm
- Potential marketing opportunities
Course objectives:
1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1a: Use basic psychological terminology, concepts, and theories in psychology to explain behavior and mental processes.
1.1b: Explain why psychology is a science with the primary objectives of describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling behavior and mental processes.
1.2a: Identify key characteristics of major content domains in psychology (e.g., cognition and learning, developmental, biological, and sociocultural).
2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
2.1b: Use psychology concepts to explain personal experiences and recognize the potential for flaws in behavioral explanations based on simplistic, personal theories.
2.1a: Describe the value and limitations of using theories to explain behavioral phenomena.
2.1b: Describe common fallacies in thinking (e.g. confirmation bias, post hoc explanations, implying causation from correlation) that impair accurate conclusions and predictions.
2.2b: Describe what kinds of additional information beyond personal experience are acceptable in developing behavioral explanations (i.e., popular press reports vs. scientific findings).
3: Ethical and Social Responsibility in a Diverse World
3.1a Describe key regulations in the APA Ethics Code for protection of human or nonhuman research participants.
5: Professional Development
5.1d Describe how psychology’s content applies to business, health care, educational, and other workplace settings.
Course objectives:
- Demonstrate an understanding of management theory necessary to perform successfully in a management position.
- Apply basic management knowledge and techniques to the management functions of decision- making, planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling, in order to enhance achievement of organizational goals and objectives.
Course objectives:
- Understand how individual, group, and organizational processes and structure influence behavior in organizations.
- Select and apply appropriate constructs to analyze specific organizational situations.
- Identify and analyze critical factors that influence organizational change.
- Analyze one’s own behavior and its impact on organizational effectiveness.
- Analyze innovative solutions for problems using critical thinking and creative reasoning.
- Determine how systems theory relates to the effectiveness of organizations.
Course objectives:
- Recognize and understand the competitive challenges facing an organization and will apply their knowledge of HRM practices to a company case study.
- Examine their own values and belief systems in order to improve their understanding and application of fundamental Human Resources concepts in the workplace.
- Relate a personal value system to the ethical dimension of leading people while integrating HRM practices.
- Demonstrate openness to differing perspectives and sensitivity to socio-cultural diversity.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the broad reach of talent management in a global economy.
- Identify the three major competitive challenges facing organizations today, and will demonstrate their capability to apply their understanding of the impact of those challenges toward the success of an organization.
Course objectives:
- Know the theories, concepts, and tools useful for managing in the international context.
- Develop a “global” orientation in their approach to business issues, while paying close attention to the importance of local responsiveness.
- Appreciate the complexity and challenges facing modern organizations in a globalizing world economy.
- Understand the social, cultural, political, legal, ethical, economic and technological contexts in which businesses operate when dealing with foreign markets and/or trade.
- Appreciate the importance of adapting organizations to foreign environments.
- Emphasize and strengthen students’ interpersonal and group work skills, particularly in the international context.
- Enhance critical thinking by applying theories and concepts to various exercises and projects dealing with international settings.
Course objectives:
- Define and describe terms and concepts associated with, and identify actual examples of, diversity in the context of various environments.
- Differentiate between Cultural Awareness, Cultural Appreciation, and Cultural Appropriation.
- Describe the roots and current state of the feminist movement and how it relates to today’s diversity oriented workplaces.
- Analyze the data and claims surrounding the gender wage gap.
Course objectives:
- Students should be able to understand and explain the essential principles of recruitment and selection and how to properly manage these processes to help organizations gain competitive advantage from these activities in an increasingly competitive world.
- Students should be able to apply knowledge of the economic, legal, and interpersonal environment in the creation and management of an organization.
Course objectives:
- Create or analyze an organization’s compensation system for improvement.
- Understand factors external to the organization affecting compensation policy.
- Demonstrate the ability to use appropriate resources to ensure compensation systems are legally compliant.
- Establish and maintain a wage and salary structure and system.
- Establish and/or evaluate criteria for performance review and pay progression.
- Understand and evaluate the effectiveness of benefits and how they affect recruitment and retention.
- Understand the effect of compensation on organizational policies and decisions.
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