Eberhardt School of Business

General Academic Regulations for the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

The University requires that all students have course work in liberal learning and basic skills in quantitative methods and expository writing. As specifically applied to business majors, it means that students entering as freshmen take Mentor Seminar I, II and III, as well as courses in categories I-A (Individual and Interpersonal Behavior), I-B (Society and Culture in the United States), II-A (Literature, Letters and Language), II-B (Fundamental Human Concerns), II-C (Practice and Perspective in the Visual and Performing Arts), III-A (Life and Physical Laboratory Science), and III-B (Formal Systems of Thought). Transfer students are required to complete the General Education Program by taking at least one course in each of the nine categories. Any student failing any Mentor Seminar must take an additional II-B course as a graduation requirement.

The Eberhardt School of Business follows the philosophy that tomorrow's leaders should have a broad background in general education. To insure a broadly based preprofessional education, no courses taught within the School of Business can be used by business administration students to fulfill the General Education requirements.

Graduation Requirements

Complete at least 128 units, including the University's general education requirements and the specific requirements of the major program.

1. Achieve a minimum grade point average of 2.0 in the major program as well as their cumulative GPA.
2. Fulfill the minimum residency requirement of 32 out of the last 40 semester units of registration at Pacific just prior to receiving the degree.
3. Fulfill the minimum residency requirement of at least 32 units taken in the School.
4. A student must receive a grade of "C" or better in any core course which is a prerequisite before taking a related concentration course.
5. There is a limit on extension course credits for courses offered through the Center for Professional and Continuing Education. The total ceiling on such units is six, with a limit of 3 in any one semester.

Academic Honors

Upon the recommendation of the faculty, honors at graduation are awarded to students achieving the following cumulative Pacific grade point average: honors, 3.50; high honors, 3.70; highest honors, 3.90. Each semester students earning a grade point average of 3.50 or higher in 12 or more letter graded units are placed on the Dean's List.

Grading Policies

All courses required of all business administration majors must be taken for a letter grade. Eberhardt courses taken beyond those noted above may be taken on a P/NC basis subject to the instructor's approval. The Deans' Seminar and the junior level Career Development Seminar will be offered P/NC only.

Students receiving a "P" in required courses taken before becoming a major in the Eberhardt School must petition to the Academic Standards Committee for these courses to be applied toward graduation requirements.

Scholastic Actions

1. If a student has a balance point deficiency up to -8 in the major or -10 in the University GPA, he or she is on probation.
2. If a student has a balance point deficiency larger than -8 in the major and/or -10 in the University GPA, he or she is subject to being disqualified. Disqualification decisions usually will be made at the end of the Spring semester, but a student who begins the Fall semester already on probation with a balance point deficiency of -8 or -10 or more may be disqualified at the end of the Fall semester if still at -8 or -10 or more at the end of that semester.
3. Any student who is on probation for three consecutive semesters is subject to disqualification. Further clarification of these (or other) policies may be obtained from the Eberhardt School of Business Student Affairs Office.

Transfer Students

Transfer courses must have a credit value of at least three semester units if they are to be applied to general education, breadth or major requirements. Courses from institutions on the quarter system must have a credit value of at least four quarter-units to be applied to the above categories.

Junior or community college students who plan to complete upper-division work in business at the Eberhardt School of Business should complete one year of introductory economics, one year of introductory accounting, a semester each of calculus and statistics, and a semester of business law. Students should also complete courses in expository writing, computer science, public speaking and the humanities. It is strongly advised that students who do plan to transfer contact the Eberhardt School of Business with specific questions regarding transfer credit.