Commerce was removed from the College of Arts & Sciences in 1952 to become an independent School of Business Administration.

At the time, the curriculum, which the University’s Faculty Senate approved on Dec. 22, 1952, was as follows:

English (12 semester hours)

Mathematics (6 semester hours)

Natural Sciences (10-12 semester hours)

U.S. History (6 semester hours)

Introduction to Business (4 semester hours)

Principles of Economics (6 semester hours)

Calculus, Philosophy, or second year of Foreign Language (6 semester hours)

Accounting (6 semester hours)

Statistics (6 semester hours)

Money and Banking (6 semester hours)

Commercial Law (6 semester hours)

Quantitative Methods (6 semester hours)

Concentration electives (21 semester hours)

Free electives (17-19 semester hours)

Total of 120 semester hours