Program Overview

Program Overview

The Business Information Technology Major with Operations and Supply Chain Management Option is a Bachelor of Science in Business degree program offered by the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech.

Program Curriculum

The program requires a total of 125 credit hours for graduation. The curriculum includes:

• Degree Core Requirements:
  • ACIS 2116: Principles of Accounting
  • BIT 3414: Operations and Supply Chain Management
  • FIN 3054: Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
  • FIN 3104: Introduction to Finance
  • HTM 2314: Introduction to International Business
  • MGT 4394: Strategic Management
  • MKTG 3104: Marketing Management
• Major Requirements:
  • ACIS 1504: Introduction to Business Analytics and Business Intelligence
  • ACIS 2115: Principles of Accounting
  • BIT 2104: Careers in Business Information Technology
  • BIT 3424: Introduction to Business Analytics Modeling
  • BIT 3434: Advanced Modeling for Business Analytics
  • BIT 4484: Project Management
  • MGT 1104: Foundations of Business
  • MGT 3404: Principles of Management
  • PSYC 1004: Introductory Psychology
  • Select one of the following: CS 1054, CS 1064, or CS 1114
• Option Required Courses:
  • BIT 3454: Business Process Improvement
  • BIT 3464: Enterprise Planning and Control Systems
  • BIT 4434: Computer Simulation in Business
  • BIT 4464: Advanced Supply Chain Management
  • BIT 4474: Global Operations and Information Technology
  • BIT OSM Elective (select two courses from the list)
• Free Electives: Select nine credit hours of free electives
• Pathways to General Education:
  • Pathways Concept 1: Discourse
  • Pathways Concept 2: Critical Thinking in the Humanities
  • Pathways Concept 3: Reasoning in the Social Sciences
  • Pathways Concept 4: Reasoning in the Natural Sciences
  • Pathways Concept 5: Quantitative and Computational Thinking
  • Pathways Concept 6: Critique and Practice in Design and the Arts
  • Pathways Concept 7: Critical Analysis of Identity and Equity in the United States

BIT OSM Electives

Students must choose two courses from the following list:

• BIT 2554: Linux, Shell Scripting, and Securing the OS for Business
• BIT 3444: Advanced Business Computing and Applications
• BIT 3514: Systems Analysis
• BIT 3524: Database Management and Design
• BIT 3474: Data Management and Business Analytics in Python
• BIT 3484: Advanced Business Analytics in Python and R
• BIT 3554: Networks, Telecommunications and Security
• BIT 3664: Cybersecurity Management I
• BIT 3674: Cybersecurity Management II
• BIT 4424: Business Information Visualization and Analytics
• BIT 4444: Web-Based Decision Support Systems
• BIT 4454: Business Analysis Seminar in IT
• BIT 4544: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning in BIT
• BIT 4604: Data Governance, Privacy and Ethics
• BIT 4624: Cybersecurity Analytics for Business
• BIT 4644: Digital Forensics and Incident Response Management
• BIT 4654: Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking for Business
• BIT 4854: Analytics in Action

Graduation Requirements

To graduate, students must:

• Complete a total of 125 credit hours
• Achieve a grade of C- or higher in select business courses
• Have an overall GPA of 2.0 and an in-major GPA of 2.0
• Complete the foreign language requirement (if applicable)

Roadmap

The program roadmap outlines the course sequence for each year:

• First Year:
  • Fall Semester: ACIS 1504, MATH 1524, MGT 1104, ENGL 1105 or COMM 1015, and three credits in Pathway 2
  • Spring Semester: ACIS 2115, ECON 2005, BIT 2405, ENGL 1106 or COMM 1016, PSYC 1004 or SOC 1004, and BIT 2104
• Second Year:
  • Fall Semester: ACIS 2116, ECON 2006, BIT 2406, and select one of the following: CS 1054, CS 1064, or CS 1114
  • Spring Semester: BIT 3414, BIT 3424, HTM/MGT 2314, and three credits in Pathway 2 and Pathway 4
• Third Year:
  • Fall Semester: BIT 3434, FIN 3104, BIT 3454, MKTG 3104, and MGT 3404
  • Spring Semester: BIT 3464, BIT 4434, BIT 4484, BIT 4464, and three credits in Pathway 6d
• Fourth Year:
  • Fall Semester: BIT OSM Elective, BIT 4474, FIN 3054, and three credits in Pathway 1a and a free elective
  • Spring Semester: BIT OSM Elective, MGT 4394, and three credits in Pathway 7 or a free elective, and two free electives

Policy 91

Pamplin students in a business degree program must complete eight business courses with a grade of C- or higher by 72 attempted credit hours (or 90 attempted credit hours for students with more than 18 transfer credits). Failure to do so may result in dismissal from the business degree program.