If you are a prospective business major at OSU, you will find the information in this section helpful. Perhaps you are currently attending OSU but are enrolled in a different college on the OSU campus, you are a high school student who is thinking of attending OSU as a business major, or you are a student who is thinking of transferring to OSU to study business.

For Current OSU Students

We encourage you to make use of the information in the Undergraduate Programs section to help you decide whether a business major is right for you and if so, which area. If you decide to transfer to the Spears School of Business, you will need to initiate the transfer in the Student Services Office of the college in which you are currently enrolled.

For Incoming Freshmen

When you decide that you are ready to apply to Oklahoma State University select the Admissions link on the horizontal menu at the top of the page for more information. We also encourage you to access the requirements of specific majors by viewing the degree requirement sheets of specific interest. Once you are admitted, you will begin receiving a variety of information from OSU, including information about housing, enrollment (the month of June is typically designated as the time when freshmen come to campus to enroll), orientation/acclimation opportunities (Camp Cowboy and Alpha), etc. Several Camp Cowboy weekends (Friday night through Sunday) are held during June and July. Alpha is held (Fall Semester only) at the end of the week prior to the beginning of classes the following Monday. For incoming freshmen who have decided to major in business, consider the Business Scholar Leader Program. To be considered for it, you must have a minimum of 25 on the ACT, at least a 3.2 high school grade point average, be involved in a variety of activities in your high school, and be willing to participate in the Scholar Leader Program activities, which include attending presentations made by well-known speakers and meetings on campus. From among the individuals considered for the program, 15 are accepted, which makes it highly selective. It provides a yearly scholarship for four years (currently $1500 per year, payable over two semesters). An additional enrichment activity is provided after the junior year. To be eligible to stay in the program, students must (1) maintain the required grade point average, (2) continue to participate in the activities, (3) be approved for continuation by the program director, etc.

During the time that the program has been in existence, its participants have often emerged as student leaders in the School and in a variety of campus organizations, have received a number of "Top Ten Senior" awards, etc. If you would like to be considered for the program, please make your wishes known in a letter sent to the Business Scholar Leader Director, 201 Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078.

For Transfer Students

To help you assess your opportunities at Oklahoma State University, we encourage you to make use of the information in the Undergraduate Programs section of this Web site. In addition, two items (No. 4 and 5) in the Checklist for Graduation section are pertinent to transfer students.

While attending a community college but prior to transferring to Oklahoma State University to major in business, we recommend that you try to complete as many as possible of the general education courses that OSU requires. For the various business majors, you will find these listed in the General Education section of the degree requirement sheets. You might also consider completing the two Economics courses (Macroeconomics and Microeconomics), the two Accounting courses (Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting), and the equivalent of our MSIS 2103 course (Business Computer Concepts and Applications) if such a course is offered at your community college. However, we advise you not to take at the community college any course that you are required to take in your major that is a 3000- or 4000-level course at OSU.

Transfer students who are planning to attend OSU for the first time during a fall semester will be invited to participate in Transfer Student Enrollment, an event that is generally held on a Thursday and a Friday early in April. Once accepted at Oklahoma State University to begin in an upcoming fall semester, you will receive information about this event.