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Business Administration Entrepreneurship Pathway (BAT)

NSCC’s Business Administration Transfer program prepares students to transfer to four-year institutions offering a Business baccalaureate program. This program includes a strong base of courses needed to pursue a bachelor's degree in accounting, entrepreneurial studies, finance, general business, management, management information systems, marketing, and other related business areas. Designed to parallel the first two years of course work that would be completed at most four-year institutions, a student's course load includes a balance between business and liberal arts courses. The Entrepreneurship option exposes students to topics used in entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial settings. 

2025-2026 Business Administration Entrepreneurship Pathway

Associate in Arts, STEM and Business Division

Recommended Course Selection Sequence

Course NumberTitleCredits
ACC110Small Business Computerized Accounting

1

BUS103Advanced Excel

1

SPE102Speech

3

ACC108Financial Accounting

3

CMP101Composition 1

3

MAT143Introduction to Statistics

3

SCI-ELECTIVE
Science Elective

3

ACC203Managerial Accounting

3

MKT101Principles of Marketing

3

ENT100Introduction to Entrepreneurship

3

BUS102Business Law

3

LS-Elective
Laboratory Science Elective

4

CMP102-150
Composition 2 Elective

3

ECO103Principles of Macroeconomics

3

PHI116Ethics

3

HUM-ELECTIVE
Humanities Elective

3

ENT200Applied Entrepreneurship

3

SS-ELECTIVE
Social Science Elective

3

ECO104Principles of Microeconomics

3

MGT102Principles of Management

3

HUM-ELECTIVE
Humanities Elective

3

BUS120Computer Applications for Business

3

Total Credit Hours: 60

 Program Notes

  • Open admissions
  • Eligible Commonwealth Commitment program
  • MassTransfer program
  • All courses can be achieved through day, evening, and online options

Campus Information


  • Lynn or Danvers campus

Additional Graduation Requirements
  • Cumulative CLGPA at or above 2.0
  • Submit your NSCC Graduation Application https://www.northshore.edu/registrar/graduation.html

Advising Notes

This degree is designed upon completion for a student to be eligible to transfer to a public Massachusetts state university or UMASS system institution with junior status in the major of business.

Many transfer institutions for BAT require MAT151. Check your transfer institution’s program for more details.

ACC108 may be substituted with ACC101 and ACC102.

Many courses have prerequisite requirements that must be fulfilled to be eligible to enroll in the course.

Courses are listed in the recommended order you should take them.

If you intend to graduate with an associate degree in two years, you should enroll in at least 15 credits if taking only fall/spring courses.

Completing at least 30 credits each year helps students stay on track to timely graduation.

Taking classes in the winter intersession and summer can accelerate your time to degree completion.

All student degree audits for graduation purposes will be based off the official program of study the student is enrolled in.