Before entering the Mason School of Business, students are required to have 54 credits before their first semester in the business school.  Students are also required to have a thorough background in statistics, calculus, micro- and macroeconomics, and a cursory understanding of accounting.  In order to fulfill those requirements, students must take one of each of the following:

Accounting
BUAD 203:  Principles of Accounting
Fall and Spring (3,3) Dafashy Irving, Ramamurthy.
A study of the use and preparation of financial information and the accounting system as an interpretative tool to communicate information about a variety of economic events to both internal and external users. Topics covered include the preparation and interpretation of financial statements for external users as well as managerial uses of accounting data, cost analysis, budgeting and performance evaluation.

Calculus
MATH 108 Brief Calculus with Applications
MATH 111 Calculus I
MATH 112 Calculus II
MATH 131 Calculus I for Life Sciences
MATH 132 Calculus II for Life Sciences

Microeconomics
ECON 101 Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 151 Freshmen Seminar:  Microeconomic Topics

Macroeconomics
ECON 102 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECON 152 Freshmen Seminar:  Macroeconomic Topics

Statistics
BUAD 231 Business Statistics
ECON 307 Principles and Methods of Statistics
KINE 394 Statistics and Evaluation
MATH 106 Elementary Probability & Statistics
MATH 351 Applied Statistics
PSYC 301 Elementary Statistics
SOCL 353 Social Statistics