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Business Minor (RSM-MN-002)

The Business minor provides students with a broad understanding of business theory, practices, and applications within the fields of marketing, accounting, finance, operations, and ethics. This minor is beneficial to students of all majors who envision careers that require a foundational knowledge of business principles.

Students majoring in International Studies - International Business, Business Psychology and/or Business Economics cannot declare a minor in business. Likewise, students who have declared the Business minor cannot declare the Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor due to an overlap of upper-division core requirements. 

To assist with your planning and to review course descriptions, click on the course’s title on Rady’s Tentative Schedule of Classes on Rady’s undergraduate webpage.

Important Policies:

  • All courses must be taken for a letter grade and passed with a grade of C- or better. Students must finish the minor with an overall minor GPA of 2.0 or higher.
  • Students may overlap 8 upper division units between their major and minor. There is no restriction for overlapping lower-division units.
  • Upper-division courses are not permitted to overlap between minors. Only lower-division courses are permitted to overlap.
  • A minimum of 5 courses for the Business minor must be taken at UC San Diego.
  • At least 5 courses for the Business minor must be upper-division.

Declaring the Minor

The Business minor is open to registered UC San Diego students pursuing a bachelor's degree, except students pursuing a minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and/or a major in International Studies – International Business, Business Psychology, or Business Economics. There is no separate admissions process. It typically takes a minimum of three quarters to complete the Business minor. We encourage students to declare the minor as soon as possible, to ensure you are meeting all program requirements. In addition, Rady sends important information regarding class offerings and policy changes to our minor students through our minor list.

You may declare a minor through Tritonlink by using the Major/ Minor Tool. For more information on how to declare, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page.

 

Minor Requirements

REQUIRED CORE: 6 COURSES (24 UNITS)

Maximum of 2 lower-division courses permitted (8 units). Students should not select both MGT-016 and MGT-071. MGT/ECON-004 and MGT-005 together will only count as one lower-division course (4 units) toward the maximum.

COURSE # COURSE TITLE  PRE-REQUISITES
MGT-016
OR
MGT-166		 Personal Ethics at Work
OR
Business Ethics & Corporate Responsibility		 None
MGT-045
OR
ECON/MGT-004 & MGT-005		 Principles of Accounting
OR BOTH
Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting		 None
MGT-071/R
OR
MGT-171/R		 Operating a Successful Business
OR
Operations Management		 None
MGT-100
OR
MGT-103		 Customer Analytics
OR
Product Marketing and Management

MGT-100: ECON-120A or BENG-100 or COGS-014B or ECE-109 or MAE-108 or MATH-011 or MATH-180A or MATH-183 or MATH-186 or MGT-003 or PSYC-060 or SIO-187.
ECON-120A recommended

MGT-103: None
MGT-181 Enterprise Finance MGT-045 (or ECON/MGT-004 & MGT-005) AND Math: MGT-003 or MATH-010A or MATH-020A
MGT-112 Global Business Strategy MGT-181 (or MGT-180/R) AND MGT-103 (or MGT-100)

 

ELECTIVES: CHOOSE 1 COURSE (4 UNITS)  

One upper division Rady MGT course, which is otherwise not restricted OR a pre-approved course from another UCSD department.

Rady Approved Courses:

  • MGT-100 – MGT-189
  • MGT-198: Directed Group Study* (Subject to department approval)
  • MGT-199: Independent Research Project* (Subject to department approval)

For MGT-199:  The Research Experience & Applied Learning (REAL) Portal helps students discover internships and other hands-on experiential learning opportunities.

Approved courses from other departments:

  • COMM-110G: Communication in Organizations
  • COMM-106M OR COMM-109D: Advertising and Society
  • COMM-162: Advanced Studies in Cultural Industries
  • COMM-106F: The Film Industry
  • COMM-106I: Internet Industry
  • ENG-100B: Engineering Leadership*
  • ENG-100D Design for Development: Sustainable Development Design (Open to All Majors)*
  • ENG-100L: Design for Development Laboratory (open to all majors) * 
  • ENG-201: Venture Mechanics
  • ENG-202: Enterprise Dynamics
  • ENG-203: Applied Innovation
  • MATH-193A: Actuarial Mathematics
  • MATH-193B: Actuarial Mathematics*
  • MATH-194: Mathematics of Finance
  • PSYC-178: Organizational Psychology
  • SOCI-121: Economy and Society
  • SOCI-132: Gender and Work
  • SOCI-140F: Law and the Workplace
  • SOCI-148E: Inequality and Jobs

*Students may need to contact Rady Advising to have class manually applied as a Business minor elective to their degree audit.

Questions? UCSD students must contact Rady Undergrad Advising through the VAC vac.ucsd.edu. Non-UCSD students can send an email to undergrad@rady.ucsd.edu.

 

Questions?

Current UC San Diego students: Please submit your questions via the VAC and an advisor will respond in 1–3 business days.

Non-UC San Diego students: Email us at undergrad@rady.ucsd.edu.