Graduate Minor

Earn a graduate minor in business administration

A minor in business administration is available to all students at Iowa State University with these understandings:

• You complete 18 credit hours of the required core courses for the major in business administration.
• You have full admission status in your respective graduate program and must be in good academic standing (graduate transcript required).

Applications for the graduate minor in business administration are accepted for the online and hybrid programs only and can be accepted for fall, spring, or summer entry. Admission is approved only if space allows in the program. Ivy graduate students are not eligible to earn a graduate minor in business administration.

To begin:

• Contact the Ivy College of Business Graduate Programs Office to express your interest in the minor. Please email busgrad@iastate.edu.
  • Submit a letter of support from your major professor to the Ivy College of Business.
  • Include a statement of purpose providing the rationale for pursuing the business administration minor.
• You will be notified of your acceptance to the minor and the Graduate Programs Office will contact the Graduate College to have the minor added to your Academic Plan.

The minor must be listed on all academic plan materials and examination reports and on the completion/graduation application. The associate dean for graduate programs, who serves as the major professor for MBA students, normally serves as the minor representative on the student’s academic plan/committee.

You are strongly encouraged to follow the prescribed sequence of required courses below and complete the minor in two semesters.

Students will not need to apply separately for completion for the minor. Instead, the minor will be conferred when you complete your primary academic plan as a part of the master’s completion and exam process.

Graduate minor course requirements

Contact busgrad@aistate.edu for more information.

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