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Jul 12, 2025
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Xavier University Catalog 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Life Sciences for Business, B.S./M.B.A.
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The Life Sciences for Business program is a dual-degree program in which students earn a Bachelor of Science in the first four years and enter the Master of Business Administration program in the fifth year. It is designed to prepare students for leadership in the Biotech and related industries.
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Requirements for the BS in Life Sciences for Business:
Core Curriculum Requirements
Students must complete the Undergraduate Core Curriculum requirements. Specific courses that must be taken to satisfy the core curriculum requirements include the following: Science requirement specified by the major as:
8 hours of General Biology
15 hours of Biology electives
22 hours in Business courses:
Note:
- A 2.0 cumulative grade-point average must be attained in all hours of the major.
- If opting to pursue the MBA, 6 hours of business graduate classes may be taken in the senior year after acceptance to the MBA program. They do not count towards your undergraduate degree.
TOTAL Minimum Hours Required for Degree: 120 Semester Hours
Life Sciences for Business, B.S./M.B.A. Suggested Block Schedule
First Semester
- BIOL 160 - General Biology I
- BIOL 161 - General Biology I Lab
- CHEM 160 - General Chemistry I
- CHEM 161 - General Chemistry I Lab
- ENGL 101 - English Composition or ENGL 115 - Rhetoric
- CORE 101 - GOA
- CORE 100 - First Year Seminar or THEO 111 - Theological Foundations
Total (14) Second Semester
- BAIS 120 - Introduction to Business Tech 1
- BIOL 162 - General Biology II
- BIOL 163 - General Biology II Lab
- CHEM 162 - General Chemistry II
- CHEM 163 - General Chemistry II Lab
- PHIL 100 - Ethics as Intro to Philosophy
- CORE 100 - First Year Seminar or THEO 111 - Theological Foundations
- CORE 102 - GOA
Total (15) First Semester
- CHEM 240 - Organic Chemistry I
- CHEM 241 - Organic Chemistry I Lab
- BAIS 220 - Management of Info Technology 1
- MATH 140 or STAT 210 or MATH 146
- Historical Perspectives
- Second Language I
Total (16) Second Semester
- CHEM 242 - Organic Chemistry II
- CHEM 243 - Organic Chemistry II Lab
- MATH 146 or BAIS 210
- MKTG 300 - Principles of Marketing 1
- Second Language II
- ECON 200
Total (16) First Semester
- PHYS 160 - College Physics I
- PHYS 161 - Introductory Physics Lab I
- ACCT 200 Introduction to Financial Accounting
- BAIS 211 - Statistics For Business II 1,3
- General Elective
- BIOL Electives (3-5)
Total (16-18) Second Semester
- PHYS 162 - College Physics II
- PHYS 163 - Introductory Physics Lab II
- MGMT 300 - Managerial Behavior 1
- Humanities Elective
- BIOL Elective (3-5)
- General Elective
Total (16-18) Summer
- Take GMAT Exam
- Apply to MBA Program
First Semester
- Biology Electives (6)
- ENGL 205 - Literature & Moral Imagination or CLAS 205 - Classical Literature & Moral Imagination or SPAN 205 - Hispanic Literature & Moral Imagination
- Theological Perspectives
- Philosophical Perspectives
- MBA Option: BLAW 550 - Business Law and Ethics
Total (18 = 15 UG + 3 MBA Option) Second Semester
- BIOL Electives (3-5)
- Creative Perspectives
- FINC 300 - Business Finance I
- General Electives
- MBA Option: MGMT 550 - Strategy
Total (15-17 = 12-14 UG + 3 MBA Option) First Semester
- ACCT 550 - Managerial Accounting
- FINC 550 - Fundamentals of Finance
- BAIS 550 - Business Information Systems
- MKTG 550 - Marketing Strategy
- MBA Elective
Total (15) Second Semester
- BUAD 550 - International Business
- ECON 550 - Managerial Economics
- MGMT 551 - Operational Analysis
- International Business Elective
- MBA Elective
- MBA Elective
Total (18) Notes:
- Students intending to apply for and complete the LSFB & MBA program must notify their advisor and take the GMAT before the fall of their senior year. ACCT 200 and BAIS 211 are pre-MBA foundation requirements for MBA candidates. Calculation of the undergraduate GPA for the LSFB Major will be based on the grades from both the Biology and Business courses taken during the student’s first 4 years at Xavier. The graduate GPA for the LSFB Major will be based on the grades from the graduate business courses taken by the student during the 5th year at Xavier.
- Students who do not wish to complete the LSFB & MBA program must notify their advisor no later than Fall of their Junior Year. This route leads to a BS in Life Sciences for Business and a Business minor.
- ERS Elective (can double count w/PHIL 300s, THEO 300s, LIT, etc.) and 3 hours of DCR
- **Business Minor - See Business Minor (2.000 GPA overall required)
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