Every undergraduate business student should meet with an Academic Advisor. Not only will an advisor ensure that you take the proper courses to fulfill your degree requirements and graduate on time, but an advisor can help make the rigors of college more comfortable.

Academic Advisors can help you:

• Capitalize on the economic benefit of taking a full course load (12-16 hours) while balancing your workload throughout the semester
• Maximize transfer credits
• Thoroughly review your Degree Audit within Campus Net
• Recognize the opportunity to earn a minor by augmenting courses already completed
• Determine eligibility for transient status
• And more…

Where to go for advising

Academic advising is provided by the Undergraduate Business Advising Center, which is located in BU 219.  These advisors possess expertise in helping you satisfy all University and College of Business graduation requirements. 

Students now have the option to schedule an appointment through our website with any undergraduate or graduate academic advisor.

Students may petition for readmission following academic dismissal from CSU.  All students must meet with an academic advisor.  In order to be considered, the deadline to submit readmission petition requests for Summer 2009 is May 1, 2009 and the deadline fore readmission in Fall 2009 is July 15, 2009.  

Undergraduate Advising Center office hours

Monday - Thursday: 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Saturday: Advising is available on the first and third Saturdays of each month (except holiday weekends).  Please note that Saturday advising is available from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. in MC 110. For more information, please call (216) 687-9376.

Faculty Advisors

Business students are also assigned a faculty advisor from the department within their program of study.  Faculty advisors provide additional strategic guidance based on your career goals.  Students may also request a particular faculty member be assigned to them, based on a mutual interest between the student and faculty member.

Graduation

All students must complete a graduation application before a degree will be conferred.  Guidelines exist for graduation application procedures.  Applications may be obtained from the Advising Office, BU 219.  All students must meet with an Academic Advisor before submitting a graduation application.  We suggest that students meet with an advisor upon earning senior standing (90 credit hours) to review their status and discuss all remaining degree requirements.

Cleveland State University requires all students who graduated from high school in 1987 or later to have foreign language proficiency.  This may be demonstrated by either passing a two year foreign language sequence in high school (ex. 9th and 10th grade Spanish) or a two semester foreign language sequence at the college/university level (ex. SPN 101 & SPN 102).  The requirement may also be met upon completing a two semester sequence of American Sign Language (SPH 251 & 252) and a foreign culture course.  Students whose native language is not English should contact the CSU Modern Languages Department (216-687-4645).  All official high school, college, and university transcripts should be sent to the Cleveland State University – Attn: Registrar, 2121 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115.

For More Information
Undergraduate Advising
1860 East 18th Street- Monte Ahuja Hall, Room 219
Telephone: (216) 687-3729
Email: cba_advising@csuohio.edu
Fax: (216) 687-5311