Minors in Business

If you are pursuing a non-business major, some business understanding will certainly enhance your undergraduate learning experience. The college offers three business minors—business, entrepreneurship, or marketing. Your minor will be awarded at graduation along with your major degree.

For admission to the minor, students need to be fully admitted to their major in another college. They must then apply and be accepted to the minor prior to enrolling in courses. Effective Fall 2011 the overall GPA requirement is a 3.0 for business and entrepreneurship, and remains a 2.50 for marketing. All courses counting toward the minor must be taken at FIU. Business majors are not eligible for a minor.

Business minor requirements

To earn a business minor, you will need to take five business courses, some of which have lower division prerequisites. If you complete the courses with grades of "C" or higher, the minor status and the knowledge are yours.

The following courses are required:

  • ACG 3024 Accounting for Managers and Investors
  • CGS 3300 Introduction to Information Systems
  • FIN 3140 Personal Financial Management
  • MAN 3025 Organization and Management
  • MAR 3023 Marketing Management

Entrepreneurship minor requirements

The Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center, founded in 2003 at Florida International University, facilitates all entrepreneurial activities at FIU, which includes academic programs. The center's programs provide campus-wide awareness of entrepreneurship as an approach to life that enhances and transcends traditional academic experiences. It is woven into the fabric of FIU through activities and courses across the university.

The multi-dimensional nature of the program allows it to address the unique entrepreneurial needs of the nation's largest ethnically diverse academic institutions, located in one of America's most entrepreneurial and dynamic international cities, Miami.

Whether in the arts, sciences, business, engineering, or humanities, entrepreneurship at FIU adds value to every discipline and enhances the creativity and innovation of students, faculty, staff, and alumni. The center encourages all majors to enroll in entrepreneurship courses.

Non-business students must take the following required courses (fifteen credit hours) to obtain an entrepreneurship minor:

Plus three of the following elective courses (9 credit hours):

  • ACG 3024 Accounting for Managers and Investors
  • AMH 4373 Entrepreneurs in the US
  • AMH 4375 Technology & American Society
  • ENT 4704 International Entrepreneurship
  • HFT 4292C Entrepreneurship in Hospitality and Tourism
  • MAN 4054 Managing Innovation
  • MAN 4117 (ENT 4604) Product Development and Innovation (or cross-listed course)
  • MAN 4142 Intuition in Management (or cross-listed course)
  • MAN 4153 (GEB) Social and Nonprofit Entrepreneurship
  • MAN 4164 Leadership
  • MAN 4294 Creativity and Innovation
  • MAN 4802 Small Business Management
  • MAN 4864 Family-Owned Businesses
  • MAN 4932 Professional Development Module
  • MAR 4025 Marketing of Small Business Enterprises

Marketing minor

The minor in marketing is offered to students pursuing a non-business major. Upon completing of the five courses with grades of 'C' or higher, a student will be conferred a "minor in marketing" concurrently with the bachelor's degree in his/her major area. It is the student's responsibility to meet the prerequisites for the courses in his/her minor.

To earn a Marketing minor, a student must complete the following courses:

Required:

Three courses (9 credit hours) selected from the following electives: