BUSI at Rice University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate BUSI coursework.

• BUSI 395Data Analyticsopens 14 courses (8 directly)
• ECON 200Microeconomicsopens 14 courses (4 directly)
• POLI 395Applied Research Methods in Political Scienceopens 13 courses (3 directly)
• BUSI 343Financial Managementopens 10 courses (7 directly)
• ECON 343Corporate Financeopens 10 courses (6 directly)
• BUSI 380Marketingopens 2 courses (2 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate BUSI work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 65 BUSI and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 73 more BUSI courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on BUSI, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in BUSI. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at BUSI 449

  1. ECON 343Corporate Finance
  2. BUSI 343Financial Management
  3. BUSI 448Investments
  4. BUSI 449Data-driven Investments Lab

• 4 courses deep, ending at BUSI 480

  1. MATH 101Single Variable Calculus I
  2. BUSI 395Data Analytics
  3. BUSI 380Marketing

• 4 courses deep, ending at BUSI 491

  1. MGMT 591Accounting Theory
  2. BUSI 491Accounting Theory

• 3 courses deep, ending at BUSI 365

  1. BUSI 221New Enterprises: Discovery
  2. BUSI 369New Enterprises
  3. BUSI 365Design Build Ship: Rapidly Building Startup Ideas

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for BUSI yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under BUSI yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

BUSI does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Rice campus feed.