Guidelines for Admissions Consideration:

• Completion of at least 30 credits at the University of Pittsburgh applicable to the BSBA degree+
• Cumulative Pitt GPA of 3.00 or higher
• Average of 3.00 or higher across the following three business prerequisite courses or their regional campus equivalents:*
  • ECON 0100 Introduction to Microeconomic Theory (3 credits)
  • ECON 0110 Introduction to Macroeconomic Theory (3 credits)
  • MATH 0120 Business Calculus or MATH 0220 Analytical Geometry and Calculus 1 (4 credits)

+If you have a strong academic history and would have been admissible to Pitt Business as a first-year student, you may not need to complete 30 credits or all of the prerequisites before applying. We recommend discussing a time frame for application with your academic advisor.

*In the calculation of your business prerequisite average for admission, we limit the number of times that you can retake prerequisites for a higher grade. We will only allow one of the prerequisites to be retaken (once) for admissions purposes. Otherwise, we include the grade earned the first-time prerequisites are taken.

If you transferred to the University of Pittsburgh from another college, your performance at your previous school will be considered during the admissions process for Pitt Business. It is important to discuss prior college performance with your academic advisor and any impact it may have on admission.

To be eligible for transfer to the College of Business Administration, international students must have a TOEFL score of 100 or greater OR have completed ENGCMP 0200 Seminar in Composition or its regional campus equivalent.

Course Planning

Important Note: Due to course sequencing in the business curriculum, enrollment for a minimum of four semesters in the College of Business Administration is required to earn the degree, and a minimum of five semesters is required specifically to complete the majors in Supply Chain Management or Business Analytics. This information should be taken into consideration when you are deciding whether to apply for internal transfer to the College of Business Administration.

While you are completing the business prerequisites, you can also take some courses that fulfill general education requirements for the College of Business Administration as follows. The requirements below are for the new curriculum.

Application Deadlines

Admission to Pitt Business is handled on a rolling basis, which means that there is not a specific application deadline by which to apply. Students are admitted for any of Pitt’s three academic semesters: fall (August), spring (January), and summer (May). You are encouraged to apply well in advance of the semester in which you want to enroll. The College of Business Administration reserves the right to close admission for the semester once capacity has been reached.