Each area requires a sequence of doctoral seminars. All students are required to show mastery of core areas of accounting, finance, marketing and organizational behavior. All students are required to take at least a two-semester sequence of advanced courses in statistics. Students are expected to be actively involved in research throughout their doctoral programs, Each area of concentration requires the successful completion of a research project, usually by the end of the second year. Examinations in each field are usually given in the spring following the second year.
Performance is evaluated by a committee of faculty members.
Students must complete a dissertation proposal to be evaluated by an appropriate committee of faculty from the student's area of concentration and by faculty outside the area of concentration. The oral defense of the proposal explores the feasibility of the research, and ensures that the proposed research is of scale and importance to be an acceptable dissertation. Candidacy requirements are described in the Requirements for Achieving Candidacy section of the Graduate Student Handbook . For information on the dissertation committee, final oral examination, and publication of dissertation, see the Graduate Student Handbook . The degrees Master of Business Administration and Master of Accounting are granted by the University of Michigan Business School .