Management
Minor The Paul Merage School of Business · UC Irvine · 2026-2027 Catalog
The Paul Merage School of Business faculty offers an undergraduate minor in Management which consists of seven courses. In addition, prerequisites include one lower-division microeconomics course and one course, or one sequence, selected from the statistics courses outlined below. MGMT 1 serves as a prerequisite and also counts as one of the seven courses required for the minor.
In establishing the undergraduate minor, the faculty anticipated three types of students to be drawn to courses in administration: (1) students who wish to learn about the management of organizations as a way of preparing for a career in business, (2) students preparing for careers in other fields that require some knowledge of management, and (3) students who expect to go on to graduate work in management who wish early guidance and undergraduate work appropriate to this career objective.
Requirements
Prerequisite Courses
The following are prerequisites for enrolling in the upper-division undergraduate minor courses:
| Course | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| MGMT 1 | Introduction to Business and Management | |
| ECON 20A | Basic Economics I | |
| and one course or one sequence selected from: | ||
| ANTHRO 10A & ANTHRO 10B & ANTHRO 10C | Probability and Statisticsand Probability and Statisticsand Probability and Statistics | |
| ENGRCEE 11 | Methods II: Probability and Statistics | |
| ECON 15A & ECON 15B | Probability and Statistics in Economics Iand Probability and Statistics in Economics II | |
| MGMT 7 | Statistics for Business Decision Making | |
| STATS 7 | Basic Statistics | |
| STATS 8 | Introduction to Biological Statistics | |
| STATS 67 | Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Computer Science | |
| SOCECOL 13 | Statistical Analysis in Social Ecology | |
| COGS 10A & COGS 10B & COGS 10C | Exploratory Data Analysisand Probability and Inferenceand Statistical Models | |
| SOC SCI 10A & SOC SCI 10B & SOC SCI 10C | Probability and Statistics in Social Sciences Iand Probability and Statistics in Social Sciences IIand Probability and Statistics in Social Sciences III | |
| SOCIOL 10A & SOCIOL 10B & SOCIOL 10C | Probability and Statisticsand Probability and Statisticsand Probability and Statistics | |
Transfer students should check with their college counselor for established equivalencies for these prerequisite courses.
NOTE: Individual courses that students may select within the minor may require additional prerequisites, including MATH 2A.
Requirements for the Undergraduate Minor in Management
Completion of seven courses:
| Course | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| A. One lower-division core course: | ||
| MGMT 1 | Introduction to Business and Management | |
| B. Select four core courses from the following: | ||
| MGMT 30A | Principles of Accounting I | |
| MGMT 101 | Management Science | |
| MGMT 102 | Managing Organizational Behavior | |
| MGMT 105 | Introduction to Marketing | |
| MGMT 107 | Introduction to Management Information Systems | |
| MGMT 109 | Introduction to Managerial Finance | |
| C. Select two of the following: | ||
| a course from the core course list above | ||
| MGMT 113–129, 141–184 | ||
| MGMT 189 | Operations Management | |
| MGMT 192 | Business Law | |
| MGMT 190 | Special Topics in Management (provided specific topics have not been covered in other courses) | |
With Merage School faculty approval, a student may substitute a maximum of one course. Students participating in the UC Education Abroad Program may substitute a maximum of two courses, with Merage School faculty approval.
NOTE: Students may not receive both the minor in Management and the minor in Accounting. Students may not receive both the minor in Management and the minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.