Earn Your Online Business Administration Degree from Southern Miss!

The Undergraduate Admissions website will provide information for the steps you’ll need to complete in order to be admitted to Southern Miss.

As an online student, you may complete an online application to Southern Miss and do not have to make an in-person visit to the campus. The online student academic adviser for the College of Business and Economic Development will advise you via e-mail, phone, Skype or by other mutually agreeable methods. Once you’ve been advised and cleared to register for classes, you may add classes via SOAR (Southern’s Online Accessible Records).

To find pricing information, click here. For financial aid information, click here. For detailed tuition information, click here. Financial aid is also available on a part-time basis for those students who work full-time.

Follow this link and choose the term that applies to view the costs associated with part-time enrollment.

You should NOT be charged out-of-state fees, because the online classes are considered in-residence.

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Contact the online Business Administration degree academic adviser, Linda Jordan, at linda.jordan@usm.edu or 228.214.3433. In your correspondence please include your USM student ID# and the semester for which you are seeking advisement as well as the number of classes or credit hours you want to take.

You may not be able to enroll in an online Business Administration degree course if you do not have the necessary pre-requisite(s), all sections of the class are full, or the class is not offered that semester.

An online academic adviser from the College of Business can perform an Unofficial Transfer Evaluation if you email (linda.jordan@usm.edu) or fax (228.214.3475) a copy of all college-level courses completed at other institutions. However, the evaluation is only an estimate of possible transfer of classes and only the official Southern Miss transcript reflects the courses that the university accepts.

Yes, the College of Business has a career services office that assists students in finding career positions after earning your online Business Administration degree.

All students in the College of Business are encouraged to be advised prior to enrolling in classes for the next semester. Please contact your academic adviser, Linda Jordan, at linda.jordan@usm.edu or 228.214.3433. Once you have been advised you will be given access to register for courses in SOAR (Southern’s Online Accessible Records).

Follow this link and choose the term that applies.

You must enroll in at least 12 credit hours in order to have full-time status in the spring and fall semesters and at least 9 credit hours in order to have full-time status in the summer semester.

Yes, you’ll start and end classes on the same dates as face-to-face students.

Yes, the major specific courses (business courses) required for the degree are offered in an on-line format as are a growing number of other required courses. The General Business program has an alliance with Mississippi Virtual Community College (MSVCC) that offers additional on-line core courses (English, History, Psychology, etc.).

Once you’ve transferred to Southern Miss, you can complete a “Permission to Transfer Credit” form prior to taking a class offered at another institution if you want to use the class to satisfy the requirements of the General Business degree at Southern Miss. Completing this form ensures that the course you take somewhere else will be an acceptable substitute for the Southern Miss class. A few rules must be noted related to this process:

• Earn at least 25% of the credit hours needed for the degree from Southern Miss.
• Earn at least 21 of the last 30 hours of course work from Southern Miss.
• 50% of credit hours must be from a senior university.
• Earn at least 50% of all business courses at Southern Miss, including the capstone course (MGT 400)

No, you will not be required to conduct face-to-face meetings. However, in an on-line course an instructor may also require synchronous meetings (often in the form of chats or web cam real-time meetings).

The instructor of the course determines how he/she sets up the labs. You may be asked to perform job site visits and observations or a course lab may involve the use of simulation or Virtual Reality to learn concepts and perform lab assignments.

It is up to the instructor of a course if exams require a proctor. You should always read the content in the syllabus and on-line course site to determine if a proctor is needed. There is an application that must be completed at least 15 days prior to taking an exam. For information about proctoring click here.

Other classes that aren’t listed may count towards your degree once your transcript has been evaluated and posted.

If yes, visit online.usm.edu/military for more information on how Southern Miss can serve you and your needs. We will help you with funding and scholarship information, admissions and course enrollment.

Please visit our programs page here: https://online.usm.edu/programs/

If you still have questions, please visit our FAQ page, or take a moment to fill out our form at the bottom of the screen, and we will reach out to you!