<p>"The Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business degree requires a minimum of 124 credit hours. Youll take at least 48 credit hours of business and economics courses, as well as a minimum of 62 credit hoursessentially half your degree requirementsin courses other than business and economics."</p>
<p>Foundation Courses: With 15 required courses, that is roughly 45 credits.</p>
<p>General Education: That's 27 credits.</p>
<p>I-Core: That's 4 courses, so 12 credits.</p>
<p>International Dimension: That's 6 credits.</p>
<p>Required Jr/Sr Courses: That's 8 credits.</p>
<p>And then you choose a major, and for Finance that is another 24 credits.</p>
<p>So overall that is a total 122 credits. How can make the 62 minimum requirements in areas other than business?</p>
<p>The 62 credit Gen Ed component they're talking about INCLUDES 8/9 credits of communications, 6/7 credits of math (that's the Eng W131 and math you saw in on Kelley's Foundations page), international dimension, and the 27-credit hour core.</p>
<p>The Business component includes the stuff like A100, Econ 201, required jr/senior year courses, iCore, etc.</p>
<p>Then you have your required classes for your major (Finance).</p>
<p>I suggest mapping this all out and then fill in electives as necessary to round out the 62 credit General Education requirement.</p>
<p>It can be confusing because Kelley's page on the foundation courses has courses from both the Gen Ed and Business components.</p>
<p>The six hours of the international dimension will also count toward the 62.</p>
<p>All of the 27 credit hour core counts toward the 62.</p>
<p>31 + 6 + 27 gives you 64 hours, so making the 62 hour gen ed requirement is no problem. </p>
<p>Electives come into the picture when not many hours are required for your major within the school of business. I think the management major requires only 15 upper level management hours, so management majors would take some electives in the business school or the college of arts and sciences in order to get up to the 124 credit hours required to graduate.</p>
<p>You can use this list of distribution option courses to determine which will apply to the three areas used in the distribution option of the 27 credit hour core. </p>
<p>If you use the field specialization option, you can go to the that department's web page for more information. Probably most of the field specialization courses require four semesters of a foreign language.</p>
<p>I second the idea that it's good to pre plan your whole four years, especially since there are so many required business courses and since so many of them have prerequisites and need to be taken in the right order.</p>
<p>LOL, if I can graduate in 2 1/2 years, you can graduate in 4 years. Trust me on that one :)</p>
<p>Take classes at your local community college over the summer - it speeds up your graduation tremendously, and saves you a lot of money (especially with IU's rapidly rising OOS tuition). </p>
<p>You can take classes before you go to IU, in addition to taking classes the first and second summers after IU. IU accepts a whopping 90 credits from a 4 year university, 60 credits if it is a 2 year university.</p>