PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The Business Administration Lower-Level Certificate is designed for students who have completed a bachelor’s degree in a field other than business administration. As such, this certificate is intended to provide students with a business administration foundation which will prepare them for many federal government management and administrative positions. Although some of the courses in this certificate may transfer into the A.S. Business Administration and A.A.S. Business Management degrees, the purpose of this certificate is to provide the necessary additional business administration courses which will enable students to meet federal government management and administrative related position requirements.

	Number	Title	Credits
	ACCT 101	Accounting Principles I	3
	ACCT 102	Accounting Principles II	3
	BA 101	Introduction to Business	3
	BA 109	Principles of Management	3
	BA 111	Purchasing and Materials Management	3
	BA 210	Business Computer Applications	3
	BA 225	Project Management	3
	BA 246	Legal Environment of Business	3
	Total Credits		24

GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT

Business Administration Lower-Level Certificate, 24 credits
CIP: 52.0201
SOC: 11-1021
Occupations: Manager, Administrator, Supervisor
Link to O*Net: http://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/11-1021.00
Tuition and Fees: $3,200.00
Time to Completion: 1.5 years

Note: The 2011-2012 Catalog was used to define credits to completion, and program cost.
Program length is calculated based on average 9 credits per semester, assumed the student was college ready and not required to take developmental course(s).
These figures are based on estimations, and do not include any increases that may occur in course materials or credit fees.
For additional information go to: http://www.harford.edu/catalog/pdf/gainful-employment.pdf

EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION
APG Maryland at the Ready has estimated a net gain of 8,200 positions at Aberdeen Proving Ground and 7,500 – 10,000 new contractor positions off-Post as a result of the BRAC project. While many positions will be in the engineering and scientific fields, a majority of positions will be administrative and management related. Team C4ISR, which is one of the commands relocating to APG as a result of the BRAC initiative, projects employing up to 2,000 new employees by 2011 and continued extensive hiring through 2014. Many of these positions will be in logistics, administrative/business, contracting, administrative assistants and information technology. Employment information from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management suggests that many of these positions will require a bachelor’s degree, including 24 credit hours in business administration.

CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENTS
Students earning a certificate from HCC must complete or demonstrate exemption from the following courses: ENG 003 and ENG 012, or ENG 018; and MATH 001 or MATH 010. See graduation requirement details in this catalog for further information.

Note: The following codes identify courses which satisfy the General Education Degree Requirements:           Behavioral/Social Science           English Composition           Arts/Humanities           Interdisciplinary and Emerging Issues           Biological/Physical Laboratory Science           Mathematics           Biological/Physical Science