Allison Duke, Dean
Rebecca Burcham, Associate Dean
Suzanne Sager, Associate Dean, Professional Development and Engagement
Jacob Arthur, Assistant Dean, School of Data Analytics and Technology
Jeff Jewell, Chair
Donita Brown, Vice Chair
Jeff Cohu, Executive Director, Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Nina Morel, Executive Director, Coaching and Leadership Development
Bonnie Brown, Director of Accreditation
Perry Moore, Director, MAcc Program
Bart Liddle, Interim Director, MHA Program
Hannah Lynn, MBA Lead
Mission - The College of Business will develop business leaders who embrace the values and virtues of Jesus.
Values and Virtues - Purposeful, Bold, Credible, Creative, Serving
The College of Business is comprised of the Pfeffer Graduate School of Business, the School of Data Analytics & Technology, and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The College’s own Career Connection Office provides career assistance and professional development for current students and alumni at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
The college has achieved the prestigious AACSB International accreditation, joining an elite group of business schools with less than six percent of all business schools worldwide accredited. AACSB accreditation covers these degrees: B.B.A., M.Acc., M.B.A., and M.H.A.
In addition, the College of Business has the rare distinction of being dual accredited as we also are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs. Separately, the accounting program was one of the first four programs worldwide accredited for accounting by this global accreditation. Lipscomb’s MHA program is also accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME).
Bachelor of Business Administration
Core Journey
The Core Journey requirements for the B.B.A. degree are shown in the Academic Program section of the catalog.
- EC 2403 must be taken to fulfill the social inquiry requirement.
- The quantitative inquiry requirement will be satisfied with MA 2183
Business Core (52 hours*) and Other Required Courses for B.B.A. Degree
All majors in the B.B.A. degree must complete the following courses:
Operations and Supply Chain Management -
OSCM 3503 Connect to a Successful Career -
BA 2601 Any 3000- or 4000-level business course not already required for three semester hours
International Business - Select three hours from the following courses:
* There are 52 hours in the business core. Economics
EC 2403 and Mathematics
MA 2183 are also included in this list, but are part of the Core Journey requirements.
Majors
Each student earning a BBA selects a major (Management, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Accounting or Finance) of 21 hours.
Electives
Students pursuing the B.B.A. may have elective hours available to meet the minimum requirement of 126 credit hours to graduate. The College of Business encourages students to use these hours in areas such as:
- Minor - Based on their interests, students may use their open electives to pursue any of the minors offered by Lipscomb University.
- Foreign language - As globalization increasingly affects businesses, students are strongly encouraged to consider studying foreign languages.
- Computing and informatics - Information technology is a key enabler in the business world. Courses in the School of Computing and Informatics can be extremely valuable to business students.
- Psychology and sociology - Students in management may find advanced study in psychology and sociology to be a valuable addition to their major coursework.
Initiative for Purposeful Business
A recurring theme throughout the undergraduate BBA program is our Initiative for Purposeful Business. This exciting new way of thinking about the intersection of business and purpose is a means of advancing the Kingdom of God by leveraging the strengths of entrepreneurship, economics, and commerce for the common good of others.
Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Another recurring theme throughout the undergraduate BBA program is entrepreneurship. All students are introduced to the concept and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation offers a major and minor along with pitch competitions and co-curricular activities. Students experience what it means to start their own businesses before graduation. In fact, upon graduation, an entrepreneurship student has a finely tuned business plan ready to execute, and that has been evaluated entrepreneurial faculty and professionals who have been down the same road.
Undergraduate Experience
Policies
- Effective in the Fall, 2018 term, students pursuing a degree outside the College of Business may not apply more than 31 hours in the areas of accounting, business administration, economics, finance, management, or marketing toward their degree requirements.
- The College of Business will not accept transfer credit from two-year institutions for upper-division business courses (3000 or 4000 level) unless we have a specific articulation agreement with the two-year institution.
- At least 12 hours in a student’s major department and which apply to the major requirements must be taken at Lipscomb.
- Excluding credits transferred via Tennessee Pathways, based on AACSB accreditation requirements, students must complete 51% or more of their credits towards a business major with credits earned at Lipscomb University.
- At least 9 hours in a student’s minor department and which apply to the minor requirements must be taken at Lipscomb.
- At least 26 hours in a student’s business core courses and which apply to the degree requirements must be taken at Lipscomb.
- A business major whose minor is also in business must have at least 9 hours in the minor that are different from hours satisfying the major requirements.
Off-site learning experiences (internships, etc.) are required in many courses of study at Lipscomb. Successful completion of these experiential courses is required for graduation. Students should be aware that many experiential sites require satisfactory documentation of personal identification in the form of driver’s licenses, social security cards, passports, drug screening and background checks. Students should make sure that they are aware of and can meet all documentation requirements well in advance of the timeframe for admission into the respective program and placement into these sites. Failure to provide required documentation for successful entry into these experiential courses will result in failure to complete the desired program of study.