Credit Hour Requirements for Norm Brodsky College of Business Undergraduate Students
At least fifty percent of semester hours of credit in the area of a student’s major must be taken at Rider.
Students are required to have 54 semester hours completed before enrolling in most 300- or 400-level business courses.
At least fifty percent of all business credits must be taken through Rider. Transfer students can bring in 30 credits in business plus Quantitative Methods, Business Statistics, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. All business students must have a 2.0 GPA in their major and overall to graduate.
For all students, of the 120 semester hours of credit required for graduation, the last 30 must be taken at Rider.
Once a student has matriculated for a degree, credit for off-campus courses will be granted only with prior approval of the academic dean.
Online Course Policy
The following online course policy applies to full-time undergraduate students enrolled in the Norm Brodsky College of Business. This policy does NOT apply to students enrolled in the fully online or continuing education programs offered by the Norm Brodsky College of Business. The term “online course” in this policy refers to any distance learning course in which communication at a distance between teacher and student(s) substitutes in part or in whole for the normal face-to-face classroom contact mandated by the regular classroom schedule. It includes online asynchronous, online synchronous, hybrid asynchronous, and hybrid synchronous modalities. Refer to the webpage Instructional Modalities for definitions and details.
- Other than transfer students, students in their first or second semester shall not enroll in online courses.
- Students with 24 or more credits completed are limited to enrolling in one online course per semester. Requests for exceptions to the policy due to internships/co-ops or any other reasons require the approval of the chairperson or program director of the student’s primary major.
- Out of 120 credits, students may take no more than 18 credits online during the fall and spring semesters. Students pursuing double major or major with a minor may take 21 credits online during the fall and spring semesters.
- Students may take up to 12 credits of online classes during the j-term and/or summer semesters (in addition to the 18/21 credits allowed during the fall and spring semesters).
- Students cannot take more than 6 credits online in any one major.
- Students must have a minimum GPA of 2.5 to enroll in an online course.