Business Administration Standards

• Focus on real-world skills and concepts so that students have the “right stuff” they need to succeed
• Identify skills and knowledge needed across all business careers as well as those specific to a particular business career
• Incorporate 21st Century Skills into your curriculum
• Prepare students for competitive events
• Stay on top of emerging trends in the business world

Because of our engagement and research with business professionals and organizations throughout the country, these standards are unique in education. Our continuous research process utilizes focus groups, interviews, business association standards, surveys, and certification criteria. This research and development process is what allows us to deliver standards that provide current information on the skill sets being used in the workforce today.

Through our research, we have learned the importance of equipping students with the skills and knowledge needed for any career in business. The standards within the Business Administration Core apply to all career clusters in business. Our standards are organized on the premise of starting broad and narrowing in specificity as the student progresses in their program of study. This ensures that students enter the workforce, college, or a career with an understanding of these core concepts.

• Business Administration Core Standards

Our national research for our standards development is focused on three career clusters: Business Management, Finance, and Marketing. Additionally,  we do research and develop standards for Hospitality & Tourism Management. Access all of our career cluster standards at the links below.

• Business Management Standards
• Finance Standards
• Marketing Standards
• Hospitality & Tourism Management Standards

Entrepreneurship research is integrated across all career clusters in our standards. Learn more about our approach to entrepreneurship within our standards below.

• Entrepreneurship Explanation

• Codes 101: We use a codification system to organize our standards; use this PDF to decode the codes.
• Curriculum planning levels PDF
• Glossary of terms: performance elements, performance indicators, and objectives – this will help you use our standards effectively with your students.
• MBA Curriculum Builder

We know most schools are working with several different standards frameworks. The resource below explains how our standards relate to one of those frameworks.

• CTE Common Core Crosswalk