Online Business courses for college credit

It depends on your goal. Business Essentials is a broad first look at business, Principles of Management covers managing people and organizations, and Microeconomics is a common first economics course. No business course here lists a prerequisite in its syllabus, so you can start anywhere.

20 self-paced courses, worth 60 semester hours of NCCRS-recommended credit in all. 7 of them also carry an ACE recommendation.

Microeconomics (UPIS-0018), Macroeconomics (UPIS-0017), Managerial Accounting (UPIS-0020), Principles of Finance (UPIS-0016), Principles of Marketing (UPIS-0015), Business Law (UPIS-0026) and Entrepreneurship (UPIS-0019). They and every other business course here also carry an NCCRS recommendation.

NCCRS recommends Human Resources Management, Business Ethics, International Business, Globalization and International Management and Entrepreneurship in the upper-division category. Financial Management and Marketing Research can count as lower or upper division. The rest are lower division.

Principles of Marketing covers marketing basics: markets and buyer behavior, global marketing, products, pricing, promotion, distribution, social media and AI. Marketing Research teaches how to plan and run marketing research: research design, sampling, surveys, experiments, data analysis, statistics and reporting.

Managerial Accounting covers cost behavior, financial statements, job-order and process costing, CVP analysis, budgeting, variances and capital budgeting. Principles of Finance covers finance basics: financial statements and ratios, forecasting, time value of money, bond and stock valuation, and risk and return. Financial Management covers corporate finance decisions: ratio analysis, valuation, time value of money, investment risk, cost of capital, dividends, budgeting.

Microeconomics covers how people, firms and markets make choices: supply and demand, elasticity, costs, market structures, labor markets and trade. Macroeconomics covers how whole economies work: GDP, growth, unemployment, inflation, aggregate demand and supply, money and banking, and fiscal policy.

Start with Foundations of Leadership, then Leadership and Organizational Behavior, Leading Organizational Change and Project Management, in that order. This is UPI Study's suggested order for lead people and projects; your program may set its own.

Start with Microeconomics, then Macroeconomics, Principles of Finance and Financial Management, in that order. This is UPI Study's suggested order for economics and finance; your program may set its own.

As long as you need: every course is self-paced, so you finish as fast or as slow as you want. By their syllabi they run from 34 instructional hours (Principles of Marketing) to 85 (Leadership and Organizational Behavior).

In most of them (13), 25% of the grade. Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Managerial Accounting, Principles of Finance, Principles of Marketing, Business Law and Entrepreneurship: 50% of the grade. Final exams are mostly multiple choice, and a pass in the course is 70 or more.

Each school decides how transfer credit applies to its own degree: as a major course, general education or an elective. The NCCRS recommendations for these courses most often name Management, Business, Business Administration and Marketing. Ask your school with the course syllabus in hand; every course page has its syllabus.

You get one free retake; if you don't pass the retake, you restart the course. If you pass and retake it, your first score counts. Quizzes can be retaken as often as you like; the average of your first two attempts counts.

ACE and NCCRS have over 2,100 cooperating colleges that will consider accepting credits; the final decision is with the universities. Search your school in Find My College, and ask your registrar which course each one would count as.

$250 a course, paid once, with no proctoring or exam fees. Or take every course with a plan.