Program Information
The Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Business Administration is a professionally oriented undergraduate degree designed to serve working adults, community college transfer students, first-generation students, and learners seeking accelerated, flexible pathways to a career-focused bachelor’s degree. The program reflects Golden Gate University’s long-standing mission to provide practical, accessible, and industry-relevant education that supports social mobility and workforce advancement.
With an emphasis on quantitative, analytical, and technology-enabled skills, the program provides a streamlined foundation in AI fluency and the functional areas of business, including accounting, finance, marketing, human resource management, and information systems. Coursework integrates data analysis and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, to support effective business decision-making.
Students examine a broad range of business issues, including how organizations create value, operate in dynamic environments, and respond to evolving definitions of performance and success. The curriculum emphasizes practical application, enabling students to analyze problems, evaluate alternatives, and develop actionable solutions in real-world business contexts.
The program also allows flexibility for students to complete up to 12 units of graduate-level coursework that may be applied toward a master’s degree, thereby accelerating not only the path to a bachelor’s degree but also progression to graduate study.
Student Learning Outcomes
Institutional / GE Learning Outcomes
- Written Communication: Write clearly and coherently for professional audiences, including contexts that involve AI-mediated drafting and collaboration.
- Oral Communication: Speak clearly and deliver clear, organized presentations appropriate to audience and context.
- Quantitative Reasoning: Interpret quantitative information, evaluate statistical claims, and use computational tools to analyze problems.
- Critical Thinking: Analyze arguments, weigh evidence, and evaluate claims - including those produced by AI systems - with appropriate critical awareness and rigor.
- Information & AI Literacy: Locate, evaluate, and ethically use information from human and AI sources to support inquiry and decision-making.
- Ethical Reasoning: Identify ethical dimensions of professional and personal dilemmas and decisions, including those raised by emerging technologies, and apply principled frameworks to navigate and address them.
- Human & Social Understanding: Apply psychological, social, and economic perspectives to analyze and interpret behaviors, ways of thinking and systems.
Disciplinary Learning Outcomes
- Written Business Communication: Produce clear, professional written communications that support business analysis and decision-making.
- Oral Communication and Professional Interaction: Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills through persuasive speech, and in providing clear directions, instructions, and guidelines within a business setting.
- Quantitative Reasoning and AI in Business: Apply financial and quantitative methods, supported by digital tools and artificial intelligence, to interpret and analyze data and inform organizational decision-making.
- Ethics: Demonstrate ethical decision-making in business and develop strategies, practices, and policies that advance ethical management practices and corporate social responsibility.
- Information Literacy for Business Analysis and Decision-Making: Locate, evaluate, and apply relevant information using research methods, digital tools, and artificial intelligence to support business analysis and organizational decision-making.
- Functional Business Knowledge: Integrate and apply core knowledge across functional areas in accounting, finance, management and marketing to develop solutions to complex organizational challenges.
- Leadership: Demonstrate leadership by communicating strategic direction and guiding teams to achieve organizational objectives in dynamic business environments.
Requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Business (Accelerated)
The degree requires completion of 90 units as follows:
- General Education - 30 units
- Major: Directed Electives - 36 units
- Major: Free Electives - 12 units
- Core Course: Capstone - 3 units
- Free Electives - 9 units
Each course listed carries three semester units of credit, unless otherwise noted. A cumulative grade-point average of 2.00 “C” or higher is required in all courses taken at Golden Gate University.
Free Electives - 9 units
Students may take any 9 units of coursework, including transfer credit or approved graduate coursework, or pathways from degrees not directly related to their discipline, to fulfill this requirement.
