Business Administration, B.S.B.A.

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Business Administration, B.S.B.A.

Build a Resilient Foundation: A Problem-Based Degree Built for 21st-Century Business

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Program Overview

The modern marketplace values versatile professional thinkers who can analyze complex data, manage cross-functional systems, and confidently navigate systemic change. The Business Administration, B.S.B.A. at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine provides a comprehensive foundation in critical business practices. This versatile undergraduate program blends management, marketing, finance, and accounting to expand your operational baseline.

Our innovative, problem-based curriculum prepares you to tackle the realities of the modern economy. Rather than focusing on abstract business concepts, you will dissect real-world challenges, utilizing design thinking, data analysis, and emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make strategic, evidence-based organizational decisions. This fully online degree acts as a definitive career accelerator, preparing you to lead across corporate sectors, small businesses, non-profit institutions, and entrepreneurial ventures alike.

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The SJC Advantage: What Makes Us Stand Out?

  • Market-Leading Transfer Policy: We respect the academic history and investments you have already made. Our program stands out for its transfer-friendly structure, requiring you to complete only 25% of your total credit hours (90 credits) through Saint Joseph’s College. This maximizes your prior learning, lowers your educational costs, and provides an exceptionally efficient route to graduation.
  • Credit for Prior Experiential Learning: Learning happens everywhere not just inside a classroom. SJC offers competitive opportunities to evaluate and apply credits for prior experiential learning directly toward your undergraduate degree. Your real-world professional history, corporate certifications, and military leadership background can be structurally converted into valid academic credit, reducing redundant course requirements.
  • Seamless Path to an SJC MBA: If your ultimate career goal includes executive leadership, our BSBA provides a direct springboard. Highly motivated students can take advantage of our internal “fast-track” graduate course options, allowing you to complete specific foundational requirements for the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree while simultaneously finishing your bachelor’s requirements.
  • 100% Online Flexibility with No Residencies: This program features a 100% online framework delivered via Brightspace with absolutely zero mandatory on-campus residency requirements. Designed with the professional adult learner in mind, our asynchronous model allows you to easily scale your course load between full-time and part-time status to match your life, family, and work obligations.
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Profile of a Successful Student

The online BSBA program brings together a dynamic, multi-generational collective of dedicated individuals who look to back up their passion with systematic business credentials.

Typical Backgrounds & Experience:
Our online classrooms are built to support two primary student demographics:

  • The Adult Learner: Working professionals who are already embedded in the workplace and want to earn their bachelor’s degree to unlock corporate promotion tracking or pivot into management.
  • The Post-Secondary Student: Recent high school graduates or community college transfer students who desire the total geographic freedom and flexibility of a premium online bachelor’s path.

Academic Strengths & Success Traits:

  • Strong Organizational Habits: The self-discipline required to navigate focused 8-week block alongside professional or family obligations.
  • Effective Time Management: Setting consistent weekly study schedules to complete collaborative assignments and core readings.
  • Active Analytical Intuition: A readiness to dive into case studies, ask clarifying questions, and translate academic theories directly into workplace solutions.

Meet Your Business Faculty

Program Details & Strategic Format

  • Format: 100% online and asynchronous, with zero on-campus residency requirements.
  • Duration: Requires 120 total semester-hour credits for completion. Your actual timeline to graduation is highly flexible and directly dependent upon your transfer credits, prior learning adjustments, and enrollment pace.
  • Course Schedule: Courses launch six times a year across highly focused 8-week block, allowing you to pace your studies efficiently.
  • Enrollment Options: Students can choose to take up to 6 credits per block.
  • Intimate Class Environments: Benefit from tight-knit online discussion groups with small class sizes, backed by personalized, direct interaction between students and faculty.

Investment & Financial Value

We believe private higher education should be transparent, accessible, and structured to maximize your professional return on investment.

Tuition and Cost Profile:

  • Maximum Base Tuition Cost: $49,680 (This base projection applies only if a student completes all 120 credit hours entirely at SJCME).
  • Value Assessment: This competitive baseline excludes textbooks and technology fees. It assumes no transfer of credit. Because only 25% of the degree must be earned at SJC, the application of eligible transfer credits or prior learning credits will drastically reduce this total cost. Prices are subject to periodic adjustment.
  • Explore Full Details: Review complete billing and financial aid opportunities via our official Tuition and Fees Details Page.

Comprehensive Business Curriculum

To earn your BSBA, you must complete 120 total semester hours. SJC requires a minimum of 18 semester-hour credits in business courses drawn from a strategic combination of the core and your specialization courses to be completed directly with our faculty.

Highlighted Core Courses

  • BA 350 – Managing Data in the Digital Age: This forward-looking course examines how current information systems and modern digital technologies provide robust, high-level data for strategic decision-making and business planning. Students learn the essentials of modern big data architectures, data analytics, and emerging technologies—such as Artificial Intelligence (AI)—to manage data effectively. Critical data risk management, institutional compliance, and cybersecurity are also integrated.
  • BA 306 – Business Ethics: A critical examination of the application of robust moral and ethical frameworks to the diverse components of modern business. Students analyze, evaluate, and navigate real-world ethical dilemmas across organizational management, marketing messaging, human resource disputes, and financial compliance.
  • Explore the Academic Catalog: For a complete listing of general education requirements, core business courses, electives, and course sequences, view our Official Undergraduate Academic Catalog.

Rolling Application Windows

Saint Joseph’s College accepts online applications on a rolling basis year-round. With three full semesters each year and two entry points per semester, you have six start dates to choose from giving you the flexibility to begin your degree whenever you’re ready.

  • Spring Semester: (2 Start Dates)
  • Summer Semester: (2 Start Dates)
  • Fall Semester: (2 Start Dates)

Student Stories

Madelyn Ramsdell

"My name is Madelyn Ramsdell. I enjoy going to church, skiing, reading, working on my family’s 80 acre farm, and exhibiting livestock. I did dual enrollment all through high school. I was able to graduate from SMCC with an associates degree in business administration in December 2024. From there, I went on to get my bachelors degree in business with a focus on accounting from St. Joseph’s. St. Joseph’s program was fantastic. Everyone there was extremely helpful by guiding me towards my goals. St. Joseph’s has prepared me to go on and get my master’s in accounting sciences from UConn. I hope to one day get my CPA license. St. Joseph’s has been an amazing experience; I feel blessed and prepared for my next steps in life!"

Madelyn Ramsdell

Matthew Carr

"Dr. Halupa Holly Paro were instrumental in getting me into the leadership program and helping me to complete it last year.  As a fifty-year-old man who never thought he would have a masters degree, let alone be accepted into a PhD program I am very proud of this degree and my connection with the college (my mother is a graduate).  I started at Chicago Concordia University in a PhD program  leadership because of the instructor I have at SJC--, Claudia Santin."

Matthew Carr

Hillary Mordecai

Hillary Mordecai is an accomplished professional currently serving as the Accounting Manager at the Maine Connectivity Authority. In her current role, she oversees comprehensive financial operations, payroll processing, and managing complex federal and state audits.

Hillary’s academic foundation began at the University of Southern Maine, where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Leadership and Organizational Skills. Committed to lifelong learning and professional growth, she pursued a Master of Business Administration at Saint Joseph’s College. She finished her degree in December 2025 with a cumulative GPA of 3.98.

A resident of Falmouth, Maine, Hillary enjoys life in her local community with her family and her 12-year-old husky, Sasha.

Hillary Mordecai

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Target Program Learning Outcomes

  • Core Business Proficiency: Demonstrate clear, baseline operational competencies across economics, business management, marketing strategy, finance, and accounting.
  • Data Synthesis & Literacy: Master the ability to collect and analyze organizational data, interpret statistical results, and formulate informed, evidence-based business decisions.
  • Strategic Communication: Express complex corporate strategies, professional data pitches, and financial overviews using polished, effective written and verbal communication styles.
  • Ethical Dilemma Evaluation: Systematically identify, evaluate, and resolve complex ethical challenges within various business structures, in keeping with personal and organizational integrity.

Explore the full curriculum and requirements in the course catalog.

Target Professions & Diverse Career Paths

The universal versatility of a BSBA ensures that our graduates hold highly transferable administrative competencies such as market targeting, budgetary evaluation, and data literacy that align with multiple tracking sectors:

  • Corporate Management: Department Managers, Operations Supervisors, Human Resource Directors, and Project Coordinators.
  • Financial Operations: Corporate Accountants, Financial Analysts, Risk Appraisers, and Assistant Controller roles.
  • Marketing & Sales: Digital Brand Managers, Market Research Analysts, Campaign Metrics Coordinators, and Accounts Executives.
  • Entrepreneurship & Local Scale: Small Business Owners, Corporate Start-up Advisors, and Non-profit Executive Directors.


Premier Industry Networks

SJC’s business programs maintain close relationships with a diverse roster of market-leading corporate, manufacturing, and consultative organizations across the nation, providing a rich sounding board for our curriculum:

  • Crocs / Hey Dude
  • Fathom Consulting
  • The Strainrite Corporation
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Frequently Asked Questions

Because this program requires 120 credit hours, your exact time to graduation is entirely dependent upon the number of credits you transfer into SJC and whether you enroll on a full-time or part-time schedule. SJC’s highly flexible 8-week block format allows you to dictate your own speed. We highly recommend you contact an Admissions Counselor to receive a personalized transfer credit evaluation to map out your specific timeline.

No. SJC provides an open and accessible gateway for our online undergraduate programs. There are no specific course prerequisites required to begin your journey within our Bachelor of Science in Business Administration track.

Our business department views artificial intelligence and advanced automation as essential tools for 21st-century organizational success. In courses like Managing Data in the Digital Age (BA 350), you will actively explore how big data, advanced analytics, and AI can be used from a leadership perspective to identify trends, enhance productivity, and securely formulate business strategies.

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