Academic Planning

Plan and create your academic path.

Earning your diploma

Understanding the credits you need

Your education will involve different “groups” of classes. First up are Core Education classes — OSU required credits in science and humanities. Next, we have business or design core that teach the foundations of our degree programs. We also have major degree program credits, typically the 300- or 400-level courses. And we have the professional skills series, Blueprint.

You’ll earn your B.A./B.S. diploma from the OSU College of Business after completing 180 credits of approved degree coursework, generally achieving a grade of C- or C.

Here's a quick look at the basics.

Earning your credits

Core Education

22-28 credits

Core Education are the OSU general education classes that give broad foundational knowledge in a number of subjects. You’ll select one class from eight different categories, for example, western culture, literature and arts, cultural diversity, biological sciences and others to earn credits towards your diploma.

Business & design core

90-96 credits

You’ll take business core or design core classes through all four years of learning — to accrue about half of all your degree credits. Business core and design core classes start in 100 levels in your first year, and move into 300- and 400-level courses as you advance. The sequential setup allows you the opportunity to prepare for the advanced learning of upper-level courses, sometimes through prerequisite coursework and also through class standing (e.g., sophomore, junior, senior).

Blueprint

12 classes

Part of our re-designed core curriculum is an award-winning series of classes that focus on professional skills and leadership training, specifically designed to better prepare you for your college-to-career transition. Every student will graduate with the knowledge, skills and network needed to excel in the workplace. With a strong emphasis on financial literacy, students learn about financial goal setting, credit management, loan repayment, savings and investing, salary negotiations and more.

Majors, minors, options

21-36 credits

En route to earning enough credits to reach 180 is where our students start choosing their program major, perhaps adding a double major or a minor, or gaining specialized knowledge through one of our options. We offer minors and options for 21 to 36 more credits.

Electives

You decide

Electives are classes not included within degree requirements and are used flexibly to complete minors, options, international study, or pursue academic subjects outside the College of Business.

Earn your credits

Registering for classes

Each term, we help you navigate the classes and pathways to your business and design degree options. But why wait for your appointment? You can get started with your academic planning and get thinking about how our offerings can work to satisfy your curiosity and your career aspirations.

Review this site for important information and helpful videos for navigating the registration process. Registrar also has a quick information page on the various types of registration needs. Additional video tutorials are available on the Registrar's webpage.

Pins

As of fall 2025, the university now relies on advanced registration holds instead of PINs for registration. This new hold requires you to connect regularly with your assigned advisor/s for registration planning.

when to register

Detailed registration day & time information is available on the Registrar's website. There are restrictions on some courses, and these will continue. Some are managed by academic units, and some are managed at the campus level. Please look carefully at course details to understand restrictions.

You are assigned a specific day and time to register based on the number of credits you have completed plus credits in-progress coursework.

Senior = 135+ credits

Junior = 90-134 credits

Sophomore = 45-89 credits

Freshman= 1-44 credits

We do not allow second week adds for any College of Business course (COB follows the University calendar for dates; no departmental approvals will be given after the 'last day to add without department approvals').

Term Traditional or Non-Traditional Course and Summer Deadlines

how to register & waitlist

Getting Started

MyDegrees Tutorials

Scheduler Information and Tutorials

Waitlist Information and Tutorials

Course Substitutes and Double Counts

Restrictions

We enforce prerequisites including class standing. Use this form to request an override to a course without having to schedule an advising appointment. Requests are reviewed within 1-3 business days and results will be emailed to you. Form completion does not guarantee an override is granted.

If you have taken an equivalent course and need an override, please contact a COB advisor.

course access for non-business majors or business minors

If your major or minor is not coded to register for a course, contact COB academic advising to meet with an advisor to discuss possible access to a particular course. You must meet all prerequisite and class standing requirements. For majors or minors that have a COB course in a "pick one" type list, appointments and/or overrides might be held until week 10.

Use this form to request an override to a course without having to schedule an advising appointment. Requests are reviewed within 1-3 business days and results will be emailed to you. Form completion does not guarantee an override is granted.

Experience course registration

Internship, Thesis, and Project Request Information and Forms

Thesis, project, research credits: COB 403-406 courses

Internship: COB 004 or 410 courses

MECOP Internship

Registration for BA 348 and BA 349 is subject to admission to COB exchange programs.

Requirements to earn a business degree

In addition to the OSU Core Education and credit requirements, the College of Business (COB) has additional grade and GPA requirements, and standards. Students must satisfy both OSU and COB standards to earn their college of business degree. The COB Progression Standards require:

Program grade information: Business

You must earn at least a "C" grade in specific prerequisite courses in order to progress through the major, as noted in the chart below:

Majors	Prereq "C" or better	Major Course	Prereq "C" or better	Major Course
Accounting	BA 211	ACTG 317	BA 213	ACTG 317
Business Administration*		dependent on option
Business Analytics		dependent on option
Business Information Systems		dependent on elective
Finance	BA 240 or BA 360	FIN 341 and FIN 342
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Marketing	BA 223 or BA 390	300/400 Level MRKT courses
Organizational Leadership	BA 252	300/400-level MGMT courses
Supply Chain & Logistics Management	BA 252	MGMT 455

*Additional business administration major information:
This major, without an option, is a stand-alone major and cannot be combined with any other business major.
Suggested elective credits to reach the 180 total needed to graduate include completing an option in International Business through a COB international business exchange OR completing a non-business minor.
If you plan to pursue multiple COB majors, you can request those at the same time. Online students are not eligible to double major with an on-campus business major.

Requirements to earn a design degree

In addition to the OSU Core Education and credit requirements, the College of Business (COB) has additional grade and GPA requirements, and standards. Students must satisfy both OSU and COB standards to earn their college of design degree. The COB Progression Standards require:

Program grade information: Design

You must earn at least a "C" grade in specific prerequisite courses in order to progress through the major, as noted in the chart below. Design majors are currently for Corvallis campus students only. Schedule an appointment with a COB advisor to declare a non-studio program.

Majors	AID GPA Requirement		Grade Requirement 1		Grade Requirement 2
	Eligible GPA	Competitive GPA	Prereq "C" or better	Major Course	Prereq "C" or better	Major Course
Required of all Design majors			BA 223 or BA 390	MRKT 492	BA 252	MGMT 364
Design & Innovation Management
Apparel Design Major**	2.50	2.75
Interior Design Major**	2.75	3.00
Product & Merchandising Management			BA 223 or BA 390	MRKT 495

AID GPA: The AID GPA is your All-Inclusive Design GPA. It consists of grades from all the Design Program Coursework including those taken at OSU and transfer institutions.
**Studio majors
Eligibility AID GPA: To be eligible to apply to a major, students must have an AID that is equal to or higher than the Eligibility AID GPA.
Competitive AID GPA: This is the minimum AID GPA needed in order to be competitive when applying for a given major.
Please also see additional application information below.

Additional Requirements

Completion requirements

All students in the College of Business (COB) must abide by the following general policies related to coursework:

Students must satisfy all OSU Requirements for Baccalaureate Degrees.
Students must satisfy all COB Academic Progression Standards.
Students must satisfy all COB Academic Professional Standards.
Students must uphold the COB Honor Code.

Retaking Courses

COB will use the second OSU grade to compute a student’s COB GPA and All-Inclusive Business/AIB GPA (this is also the university policy for OSU cumulative GPA).

Students who retake an OSU grade at another college or university may use that grade to clear a requirement, but the OSU grade will remain in their OSU, AIB/AID, and COB GPAs.

course substitutions & double counts

Courses that can be substituted for business requirements:

MTH 251, MTH252 or MTH254: C- or better satisfies MTH 241 requirement - COB will use whichever math course has the highest grade
For Design, MTH 251, MTH 252, MTH 254, MTH 241, or MTH 112 satisfy the MTH 111 requirement

Business/Design required courses that also satisfy Core Education categories:

Business majors
ECON 201 satisfies Social Sciences
COMM 111Z, 114 or 218 satisfies Communication, Media & Society
MTH 241 satisfies Quantitative Literacy and Analysis
WR 222, 323 or 227Z satisfies Writing Elevation

Design majors
ART 101 satisfies Arts and Humanities
ECON 201 satisfies Social Sciences
COMM 111Z, 114 or 218 satisfies Communication, Media & Society
MTH 111Z satisfies Quantitative Literacy and Analysis
WR 222, 323 or 227Z satisfies Writing Elevation

Talk to your advisor if you have questions about other substitutions or double-counts.

grade information

Information on Grade Calculation and Incompletes

Need help calculating your AIB or AID? Schedule with an advisor

Grading Basis - Should I S/U, Withdraw, or Stay A-F?

Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (S/U) Grades
Detailed information available regarding equivalencies and maximums at AR18
Students may not S/U any COB courses or major requirements. This includes any courses that are part of the Business Core (ECON 201, COMM 111, etc.) or COB major.
Request a change of grading basis to S/U [deadlines vary for partial term courses]

Drop/Withdraw from a Course
If you drop a course by the deadline, the course will be removed from your schedule and you are not responsible for the tuition and fees associated with the course. There will be no record of the class on your transcript.
Dropping a course after the drop deadline is considered a course withdrawal. If you wish to withdraw from a course, you must do so by the withdrawal from course deadline. You may be responsible for a portion of the tuition and fees associated with the course. A "W" will appear on your transcript.
See your advisor before dropping or withdrawing from a course to find out how it may impact your academic plans.

Struggling with a course? View our tutoring resources.

Have you met with your assigned advisor and need to request an exception? Visit our internal student petition.

Apparel Design & interior design application

Full description of Professional Studio application and eligibility requirements
Pre-Apparel Design and Pre-Interior Design eligibility is 2.50 AID GPA; however, admission into the Apparel or Interior Design majors have additional GPA requirements as stated on the application page. Acceptance to either of the two studio design majors greatly increases if competitive GPA is met or exceeded.

Why an application?
They are studio majors
Limited classroom space (drafting tables, sewing machines)
More hands-on/project work
Majors are competitive
Grades in major classes are important
Projects from design classes are required for the application

Need a Change?

How to change your undergraduate program or campus

For any questions regarding College of Business programs, please contact College of Business advising.

COB advising

thinking about changing your campus

Students' programs (major/options) must be declared for the same campus. In other words, you cannot declare a major eligible for Ecampus as a Corvallis campus student. Minors may be possible on alternate campuses.

If you have completed a new student orientation and taken classes as a degree-seeking student through any of OSU's campuses, you can use visit the Change of Campus website to follow the outline for changing your OSU campus.

If you have not yet completed a new student orientation, please begin with the relevant office:

Corvallis/Ecampus: Contact the Office of Student Orientation to sign up for a New Student Orientation

Cascades: Contact Cascades Enrollment Services

thinking about changing or adding a program?

If you are a current OSU College of Business (COB) major who wants to change or add a major outside of the COB, please contact the advising department for that major.

If you are a current OSU student wishing to add a COB program (major, minor, or concentration), please schedule with a COB advisor or apply for a minor.

To change your current College of Business major, or add a 2nd COB major, you must meet request to declare the program of choice with an advisor. Please schedule an advising appointment through BeaverHub.

If you a current COB major wanting to add a COB minor, please see information on adding a minor

Transferring your credits

We want you to have the best experience while fine-tuning the details of your college transfer. We want you to maximize the work you’ve already done as well as get comfortable here. Ranging from your informal transcript evaluations that may have been conducted online, to your new-student orientation for transfer students coming to Corvallis, to your first advising consultation to plan future academic terms, this page will give you the basic about how the advising team can help you.

Transfer tables

Transfer

Review our transfer tables to see how your coursework matriculates to OSU.

Transfer tables

Enroll today

enroll

Check out the Degree Partnership Program to enroll at a community college preemptively or concurrently.

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Request evaluation

request

Not sure how it all fits? Request a transfer credit evaluation with one of our transfer advisors.

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