Students who enter UCR as freshmen initially enroll in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences in a Pre-Business status where they complete the campus breadth requirements and the necessary prerequisites for the Business Administration major, and then apply to the Business Administration major for their junior year. Upper-division classes are taught by professors from The A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, all of them experts in their respective fields of accounting, finance, human resources, international business, management information systems, marketing, operations research, organizational behavior, and strategy, among others. The extensive campus computing resources are available to support undergraduate work. These opportunities provide valuable experience to give students the competitive edge for that first job. The Center also provides career guidance and job search assistance.
Students also have the opportunity to work with faculty on research projects.
The University Honors Program, offering lower-division courses taught by distinguished faculty, introduces undergraduates to the challenges and rewards of scholarship and research from the beginning of their undergraduate careers. In the upper-division, the program invites outstanding students to design and produce honors theses and projects under individual faculty supervision. Through the Education Abroad Program, Business Administration students can add an international perspective to their education by studying and living in a foreign country while earning UC credit. Academic advising Pre-Business students receive academic advising from the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. The Business Administration student affairs staff provides advising to junior and senior Business Administration students.