The Hospitality, Sports, Events and Tourism (HSET) sectors are highly diverse yet intensely interconnected industries that are growing very fast. A combined HSET/MBA degree enhances students’ HSET sector management skills and gives them an opportunity to earn a highly visible professional degree in a shorter period of time.
The “4 + 1” Bachelor’s/MBA is a five-year program, during which students will spend three years taking courses required for their chosen bachelor’s degree program and in their fourth year, they will complete (along with required undergraduate program courses) 6 credits worth of graduate business (MBA) coursework. This will satisfy both undergraduate degree requirements and count toward achievement of the MBA degree. In the fifth year, students will take graduate courses required for a General MBA, in a full-time format. Students interested in this option can find more information regarding program requirements on the University's Combined Programs website.
Program Requirements
Students in this combined degree program must complete the requirements for:
Hospitality, Sports, Events, and Tourism Major (B.A.)
Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Graduate Swing Courses
A combined degree program allows students to complete 6-12 graduate credits ("graduate swing courses") while enrolled as an undergraduate. These courses count for both their bachelor and master’s degrees. Graduate swing courses will count toward undergraduate free electives, unless noted otherwise.
The Graduate Swing Courses for this program:
Recommended Roadmap to Degree(s)
This recommended five-year plan is provided as an outline for students to follow in order to complete their degree requirements within five years. This plan is a recommendation and students should only use it in consultation with their academic advisor.
Fifth year courses are taken at the graduate level, after matriculation into the graduate portion of this combined degree program.
Undergraduate Program
| First Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: (A) New Student Seminar | 1 | WRIT 206 | 3 |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: (C1) Writing | 3 | INFO 240 | 3 |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: (C3) Communication | 3 | EAES 170 | 3 |
| INFO 173 | 3 | POLS 101 | 3 |
| PHIL 102 | 3 | HSET 250 | 3 |
| PSYC 101 | 3 | HSET 198 | 1 |
| 16 | 16 | ||
| Second Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| THTR 140 | 3 | NUFD 192 | 4 |
| HSET 208 | 3 | MKTG 240 | 3 |
| ACCT 204 | 3 | HSET 325 | 3 |
| MGMT 231 | 3 | HSET 355 | 3 |
| HSET 255 | 3 | HSET Flexible Course | 3 |
| 15 | 16 | ||
| Third Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| World Language I | 3 | World Language II | 3 |
| HSET 353 | 3 | HSET Flexible Course | 3 |
| HSET Flexible Course | 3 | Major Elective | 3 |
| HSET Flexible Course | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| CMST 110 | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| BUGN 310 | 0 | BUGN 320 | |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| Fourth Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| Major Elective | 3 | HSET 490 | 3 |
| Major Elective | 3 | BUGN 340 | |
| Free Elective | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | Required MBA Swing Courses | 6 |
| Free Elective | 3 | ||
| BUGN 330 | |||
| 15 | 12 | ||
| Total Credits 120 | |||
Graduate Program
| Fifth Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| First Half | First Half | First Half | |||
| MBA Core Course | 1.5 | MBA Core Course | 3 | MBA Core Course | 1.5 |
| MBA Flexible Core Course | 1.5 | MBA Elective | 1.5 | MBA Core Course | 1.5 |
| MBA Flexible Core Course | 1.5 | Second Half | MBA Elective | 1.5 | |
| MBA Elective | 1.5 | MBA Core Course | 1.5 | Second Half | |
| Second Half | MBA Core Course | 1.5 | MBA Core Course | 3 | |
| MBA Core Course | 1.5 | MBA Core Course | 1.5 | MBA Core Course | 1.5 |
| MBA Core Course | 1.5 | MBA Core Course | 1.5 | ||
| MBA Elective | 1.5 | ||||
| 10.5 | 9 | 10.5 | |||
| Total Credits 30 | |||||