Business Minors Degree Requirements

At Gies Business, pursuing a minor is optional, but it can be a valuable way to deepen your expertise, explore personal interests, and build skills that complement your business education. Many students use minors to broaden their perspective, strengthen career preparation, or gain experience in areas outside their major.

There are some minors that are only available to Gies Business majors, including the Business Analytics Minor and the International Business Minor. However, Gies Business majors are not limited to minors offered within Gies.

Explore the full list of available minors to find options that align with your academic and professional goals here.

Business Analytics Minor

In today's data-driven world, mastering Business Analytics is no longer optional but essential for staying competitive and innovative across all industries. Every firm is applying data analytics in key business processes across their value chain. These developments make it imperative that Gies Business undergraduate students have the opportunity, through the Business Analytics minor, to develop and showcase their expertise in applying analytics at a deeper level.

This minor is open only to undergraduate students in Gies College of Business. It is not open to students earning degrees in any other University of Illinois college. To declare a business analytics minor, you must complete a minor declaration form.

Core Requirements of the Business Analytics Minor (complete all):

• BADM 352 – Database Design and Management
• BADM 356 – Data Science and Analytics
• BADM 358 – Big Data Platforms (prerequisite: BADM 352)
• BADM 373 – Quantitative Foundations for Business Analytics (fall only, prerequisite: BADM 211)
• BADM 374 – Management Decision Models (prerequisite: BADM 210)

Elective options (choose one):

• BADM 336 – Supply Chain Modeling & Analytics
• BADM 351 – Social Media Strategy
• BADM 361 – Marketing Analytics
• BADM 362 – Introduction to Consumer Analytics
• BADM 379 – Business Process Improvement
• BADM 453 – Business Intelligence
• ACCY 302 – Decision Making for Atg
• FIN 464 – Applied Financial Analysis

International Business Minor

The Gies College believes all business is international. The Gies International Business Minor is designed to educate and train future business leaders, decision-makers and strategic thinkers to skillfully manage human capital in firms and organizations. The minor particularly focuses on challenges associated with multi-national firms and management in international contexts with different methods, traditions, and cultures.

This minor is open only to undergraduate students in Gies College of Business. It is not open to students earning degrees in any other University of Illinois college. To declare a business analytics minor, you must complete a minor declaration form.

Core Requirements of the International Business Minor (complete all):

• BADM 338 – Global Supply Chain Management
• BADM 380 – International Business
• BADM 381 – Multinational Management
• BADM 382 – International Marketing
• BADM 383 – Topics in International Business (spring only)

Elective options (choose one):

• Any course in a modern foreign language beyond the beginning and intermediate levels (beyond the 4th level language). High school language coursework or language proficiency testing will not fulfill this requirement.
  
• Take BADM 383 – Topics in International Business for a second time. Note: the topic must vary from the initial BADM 383 taken as a minor requirement.