Hi, I’m Matteo, an International Business student, and I’m here to tell you about this major!


Are you interested in working in another country? Perhaps you want to know more about another culture or are already familiar with another language.


Then the International Business major is for you! It is a flexible major that allows you to choose an exciting career path including working with multinational corporations.


Students who graduated as International Business majors from USF’s School of Management are now working at international operations at companies such as Intel, Apple, Konami, Williams Sonoma, and Google.


Others are working at NGOs such as the Bay Area Council and China SF and in organizations such as UNESCO and USAID.


Please look at our IB curriculum map which will be sent to you via email to consider the order in which you want to take your IB classes or study abroad.


Now, here’s some important information to help guide you through the online registration process, so you can select your first semester’s courses.


Hi! I’m Homa, a USF business student, and I’m going to help you with selecting your first semester’s classes!


USF students typically register for 16 to 18 credits every semester to stay on track for graduation. That is four 4-credit courses and perhaps a 1 or 2 credit elective course. You will need to take at least 16 credits each of your 8 semesters in order to graduate in 4 years with 128 credits.


The first class to add to your schedule is the Rhetoric and Composition course that you placed into. Rhetoric and Composition is a University Core requirement and a prerequisite for your business classes. It is important for business majors to complete the Core A2 requirement as soon as possible. 


If you are a transfer student and you have completed and passed a composition course with a grade of C- or better, you should register for Rhetoric and Composition 310.


For your next course, you should register for either: Economics 111 OR Economics 112. Both courses are part of the Business Core curriculum and taking either course will fulfill your University Core E social science requirement. We recommend that you take them consecutively, and not at the same time!


Next, you can register for MATH 106, which fulfills your University Core B1 Math requirement and is a business core requirement.
For your next course, you can enroll in another University Core course that fulfills one of your open required areas such as history, philosophy, theology, ethics and more. 


One option you have is to enroll in a First Year Seminar, or, for transfers, a Transfer Year Seminar, that fulfills a University Core area. These seminars have especially small class sizes, are interactive, offer excursions, and are a great way to make new friends.


Another option is to add a language course to your schedule. Remember, there is a language proficiency requirement for International Business majors.


If you have taken a language in high school and want to continue in that language, be sure to take the placement exam to determine which language level you can take. The third semester of a foreign language counts towards 4 credits of the 8 required International Business elective credits. 


If you are an international student, please check with the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures to determine if you satisfy the language requirement. If you do satisfy the language requirement, you can take 8 credits of International Business elective courses instead.


Once you have chosen your 16 credits, you may want to add a 1 or 2 credit course.


There is a wide variety of fun and interesting choices, but freshman business majors are required to take Business 100 Launch into Business during either their first or second semester for an overview of USF’s business program.  In this 2-credit course, you will learn many foundational business concepts as well as gain skills in workplace professionalism. 


Once you have selected your courses for the semester, your schedule should look something like this..

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Freshman Student Sample Schedule
RHET XXX - Rhetoric & Composition course that you place into (4-6 credits)
ECON 112 - Principles of Macroeconomics (4 credits)
MATH 106 - Business Statistics (4 credits)
University Core course (4 credits)
BUS 100 - Launch into Business (2-credit optional course)

Or, for transfers, something like this.

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Transfer Student Sample Schedule
BUS 201 - Principles of Financial Accounting (4 credits)
THRS 295 - Transfer Year Seminar (4 credits)
RHET 310 - Business and Technical Writing (4 credits)
PHIL 240 - Ethics (4 credits)
CS 151 - Spreadsheets Computing I (2 credits)

If you are a transfer student, do not forget to review your degree evaluation to determine which courses you have already completed.

If you need help, please contact us (email address displayed: somundergrad@usfca.edu)

From all of us at the School of Management, welcome to USF!