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Admission to the Upper-Division Professional Program

Students wishing to apply to the Franklin P. Perdue School of Business must do the following:

  1. Submit an application by December 1 (for the next spring term) or May 1 (for the next fall term).

  2. Prepare to satisfy the following requirements by the start of the next semester:

    1. Complete 56 credit hours.

    2. Complete a minimum of 22 hours for catalogs before 2009 and 24 hours for catalogs starting 2009 from the lower-division, pre-professional core requirements (see previous information) with grades of C or better.

    3. Included in the 22 hours must be:

      1. ACCT 201
      2. ECON 211
      3. INFO 111 (or COSC 116 although this course will not be used in the Gate GPA calculation) for catalogs before 2009
      4. MATH 160 or MATH 201
      5. MATH 155 (C or better)
    4. A GPA of 2.6 for catalog year 2007-2008 and 2.75 or catalog years starting in 2008 or higher in the pre-professional core courses.

    5. Students may repeat pre-professional courses one time only.

  3. Students pursuing a major in the business school and who are enrolled in 300-/400-level business courses without meeting the program admission standards will be deregistered from those courses. Other students (minors, etc.) must meet all course prerequisites.

Retention Policies:

Once admitted to the Perdue School’s professional program, students must do the following:

  1. Complete the pre-professional core within the next 15 credit hours of study or be disenrolled automatically from the professional program.
  2. Earn grades of C or higher in all major coursework including INFO 211 and ABLE.
  3. Complete MGMT 492 with a C or better. Complete BUAD 300 and 400 with a P.
  4. Students may only repeat each business course (lower and upper division) one time.
  5. Maintain a 2.0 grade point average. (Students whose cumulative grade point averages fall below 2.0 and do not return to 2.0 within the next consecutive 12 semester hours will be disenrolled from the professional program.)

Appeals for exceptions to this policy must be made in writing to the associate dean of the Perdue School.