A soybean cultivar designated BA947474 with high yield potential, tolerance to Roundup.TM. herbicide, MG VIII maturity, resistance to race 3 of soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines), and moderate resistance to southern root knot nematode and southern stem canker, further including the plants and seeds of the cultivar BA947474, methods for producing a soybean plant by crossing the cultivar BA947474 with itself or another soybean plant. The invention also relates to soybean cultivar BA947474 further comprising one or more single gene traits, and to methods of producing a soybean having such traits by introgression, transformation or mutagenesis. The invention also includes using the soybean cultivar BA947474 to produce other soybean cultivars, breeding lines, and progeny.