Tips for Future Freshmen Students

1. Students must be admitted to McCoy College in order to pursue a BBA degree.  Admission to McCoy College is competitive and more selective than regular admission to Texas State. Take note of the requirements and deadlines for admission. Maintaining a strong high school ranking and good performance on the SAT or ACT are important.
2. If you have dual credit, have official transcripts sent to Texas State from the issuing college or university immediately upon conclusion of the semester. 
3. Begin researching career opportunities early. Career Services offers a variety of resources to assist you. 
4. If you are not admitted to McCoy College based on the freshmen requirements, then review the process of applying for admission as a Texas State student. 

Tips for Future Transfer Students

1. Students must be admitted to McCoy College in order to pursue a BBA degree.  Admission to McCoy College is competitive and more selective than regular admission to Texas State. Take note of the requirements and deadlines for admission. Maintaining a strong overall GPA is important. Students with a weak overall GPA and poor performance in the courses required to be eligible to apply should consider an alternate major. 
2. Prioritize the courses required to be eligible to apply.  They must be completed before the appropriate deadline in order to be considered for McCoy College admission. 
3. Keep all syllabi and calendars for courses that you enroll in at other colleges and universities. These will be required if further evaluation needs to be completed to determine if the courses may be applied to your Texas State degree requirements.  
4. Use the equivalency guides to determine what courses are directly equivalent to those on the Texas State degree program that you wish to pursue. 
5. If you are not eligible for McCoy College admission before you begin attending Texas State, familiarize yourself with the application process for current Texas State students.  The process of applying for admission as a Texas State student as well as the courses you are limited to enrolling in before admission are listed in the changing to a business major brochure (PDF document). 

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Is a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) right for me?

• Students working towards a Bachelor of Business Administration will take common business core courses in accounting, economics, business law, computer information systems, statistics, finance, management, marketing, and strategy.  Students will be able to specialize in a particular major (accounting, CIS, economics, finance, management, marketing).
• The business administration degree relies heavily on skills in written and oral communication, critical thinking, mathmatics, and problem solving. 
• Use Texas State Career Services to perform career field research to discover what opportunities exist with a BBA.
  

Learn More: BBA Basics

The BBA Basics Information Session is open to students who wish to learn more about the process of pursuing the BBA degree at Texas State.  Click here for more information about these sessions. 

Why Texas State and McCoy College of Business Administration?

1. We are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

To achieve accreditation, business programs must satisfy the expectations of a wide range of quality standards relating to strategic management of resources, interactions of faculty and students in the educational process, and achievement of learning goals in degree programs. These standards are mission-linked. During the accreditation process, McCoy College was visited and evaluated by business school deans with detailed knowledge of management education, applying accreditation standards that are widely accepted in the educational community.

2. Texas State and McCoy College offer a student-centered environment.  

We encourage you to visit Texas State; we think you will like what you see. Our home, McCoy Hall, was completed in May 2006 and supports the applied learning approach used by our faculty to promote the development of tomorrow’s business leaders.  Students were at the center of the development of the new building, much like they are at the center of everything else we do.  Click here to learn more about visiting campus.

3. Our students are successful inside and outside of the classroom.

As a McCoy College major, you will have opportunities outside the classroom to apply your knowledge to business situations, learn leadership and teamwork skills, and provide services to the community through participation in student organizations and award-winning student competition teams. 

• Through our Student Managed Investment Fund, finance students gain real world investment experience by managing $100,000 of the McCoy College Development Foundation assets. 
• In 2007, teams from our student chapter of the Association for Information Technology Professionals placed in the top four in the PC Troubleshooting, Application Development, and Systems Analysis/Database competitions at their National Collegiate Conference. 
• In 2007, our American Marketing Association was recognized as a Superior Chapter at their International Collegiate Conference. In addition, they received second place in the website competition and third place in the case competition.  
• In 2007, a team of entrepreneurship students was among 12 teams selected to compete with its business plan for the Soul Reason Café in the Nascent 500 Business Challenge held in Indianapolis. 
• The Texas State Students in Free Enterprise team was named regional champion and a finalist in five of six regional special competitions. The team advanced to the national competition and placed second in two special competitions.  The team won the International Championship in 2000. 
• The Texas State chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization received first place for Best Fundraiser and second place for Best Chapter Website at the National CEO Conference.   
• Our Financial Management Association was recognized as a Superior Chapter, the highest honor for an FMA student chapter.