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DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING, FINANCE AND ECONOMICS
MAJOR CONCENTRATION DEGREE
OFFERED

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Accounting BS

Banking and Finance

Economics

Chair: Samuel A. Duah

Professor: Granville Sawyer, Latanya Brown, Sunando Sengupta

Associate Professor: Regina Tawah

Assistant Professors: Samuel Duah, Bernard McNeal, Symon Manyara,
Augustin Ntembe, Thaddee Badibanga, Enoch Osei, Satina Williams,
Tibebe Assefa

MISSION
This Department provides students with competence in the key areas of accounting, banking and
finance and economics. The students will gain the theoretical, analytical, organizational and technical
skills needed to be successful in the domestic and international business environment.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DEPARTMENT
The Department of Accounting, Finance, and Economics offers a Bachelor of Science degree in business
administration with three concentrations: Accounting, Banking and Finance, and Economics.

Entering students are expected to satisfy the requirements for business mathematics by taking BUAD 100
(Business Mathematics) successfully or taking the Business Math proficiency exam. After completing
Expository Writing (ENGL 101) and Argument and Research (ENGL 102), students must take and
successfully pass the Bowie State University English Proficiency Examination. Transfer students who
completed their English composition requirements at another institution must also take the Bowie State
University English Proficiency Examination during their First Semester of enrollment at the University.

All majors are required to earn at least a “C” grade in all courses in their major program. Graduating
seniors are encouraged to take the national standardized Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)
during the FALL semester of their senior year.

Students are expected to familiarize themselves and comply with the College of Business and their
respective department’s standards for graduation. Each student’s program is individually reviewed and
may be adjusted to reflect student’s academic background and career goals.

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