Application Information

BYU Marriott offers ten limited-enrollment undergraduate programs. These programs are highly competitive. For more information, please see below.

Application Requirements

General Information

You may apply to a maximum of three undergraduate programs at once.
Academic (GPA measures) and holistic (essay and resume) criteria are evaluated in the admissions process.
Entry is competitive; not every student who satisfies the minimum criteria will be guaranteed acceptance.
Students are required to rank their program preferences (these preferences will not be shared with the admissions committee.)
Switching BYU Marriott majors is not allowed once accepted.
By accepting admission, students commit to a junior core during the upcoming fall semester and to subsequent coursework in sequence according to the program’s flowchart.
According to university policy, students must declare a major before reaching sixty credit hours. Students can declare a temporary pre-major of Pre-Business. Declaring Pre-Business is not required for admission. We recommend you consider declaring an alternative major that you could pursue if not admitted to a BYU Marriott program to ensure timely graduation. Students should apply to BYU Marriott before accruing ninety credit hours.

Academic Criteria

The table below summarizes what components are required for each application.

_{*Students interested in the B.S. Business Management degree should contact the Advisement Center and request to meet with a Pre-Business Academic Advisor (non-student) to learn more about the program and application. A meeting is required before opening an application.}

Program-Specific Grade Criteria

The admissions committee may review your entire academic record when processing your application.
Each program requires 3 prerequisite courses.
All prerequisites must be completed before the application deadline (last business day of June.)
To be eligible to apply, the prerequisite GPA must be at least 3.0 for accounting and information systems applicants. A minimum of a 3.0 prerequisite GPA is preferred but not required for entrepreneurial management, experience design and management, finance, global supply chain management, human resource management, marketing, and strategic management. For averages, please see the admission statistics at the end of the page.

The method of evaluating grades for admission will vary by program and is listed below.

Accounting
Entrepreneurial Management
Experience Design and Management
Finance
Global Supply Chain Management
Human Resource Management
Information Systems
Marketing
Strategic Management

Repeated and Transferred Prerequisites

The application process discounts repeated and transferred prerequisite courses to provide the admissions committee with a more objective evaluation of applicants.
This discount does not change the actual grades on your transcript; it is displayed only on your application.
The standard discount for transferring or repeating prerequisite courses is one grade step (e.g., A to A-).

Non-Transferable Courses

We will not evaluate transfer requests for the following courses:

IS 201: Introduction to Management Information Systems
FIN 201: Principles of Finance
M COM 320: Communication in Organizational Settings
ACC 310: Principles of Accounting 2

P/W Grades and Retaking Courses

W grades do not count as course completion, so a prerequisite course with a W will need to be retaken.
If a student retakes a prerequisite course in which a P/W grade was received in Winter 2020, the future grade will not be discounted in calculating the future prerequisite GPA.
If a student is retaking a prerequisite course in Winter 2020 and the retake grade is a P, programs will review the optional personal statement regarding COVID-19 and its impact on the associated P grade rather than use the prior grade.

Transfer Students

We recommend having a competitive letter grade in at least two prerequisite courses when applying.
For transfer students whose first semester is Winter 2020, the same GPA admissions criteria will be used, and we recommend completing the optional personal statement regarding the impact of COVID-19 on the application to explain any extenuating circumstances.

Essay

Each undergraduate program requires an essay. For more information, please see our Essay Tips.

Résumé

Each program, with the exception of accounting, requires a résumé submission. Review the BYU Marriott résumé guide here. Download the general BYU Marriott résumé template for reference. Use a free software tool called VMock to get automatic feedback on your résumé’s formatting and content that is tailored to the BYU Marriott program of choice.

Application Deadline

Applications are due on the last business day of June at 4:30 p.m. MDT.

Admission Statistics (2023)

Note: When reviewing the statistics below, please note that admissions decisions are based on a complete application that in most cases include such items as internship and volunteer experience, participation in applicable clubs, essay responses, and other criteria—not just GPA scores. In addition, students may apply to up to three majors in order of preference to BYU Marriott; the Applicants column below reflects any time a student listed the major as a first, second, or third preference. Overall, 1,794 students applied to a BYU Marriott major in 2023 and 1,434 (79.9%) were admitted to at least one major. For specific criteria and admission information for individual majors, please visit the major’s website or contact an academic advisor.

Program	Applicants	Admitted	Enrolled	Average Prereq GPA	Average BYU GPA
Accounting	438	378	324	3.79	3.77
Entrepreneurial Management	154	71	58	3.32	3.45
Experience Design and Management	243	159	135	3.65	3.66
Finance	380	289	230	3.67	3.78
Global Supply Chain Management	285	217	135	3.59	3.58
Human Resource Management	107	100	55	3.48	3.53
Information Systems	331	272	240	3.81	3.71
Marketing	325	180	132	3.72	3.71
Strategic Management	250	117	88	3.79	3.79
Strategy Minor	16	16	15	3.78	3.76