They may complete 12 courses for a total of 36 semester hours. Six of the remaining nine courses will be chosen to tailor your program to meet your needs. Before beginning work on the project, students must have completed 15 semester hours of core subjects including MBA 501, MBA 503 and MBA 504 as mentioned above. Proposal Approval A committee of three MBA professors, comprising the Project Committee, will review the project proposal and approve or disapprove it based on relevance to the learning experience of the student. In most cases, the MBA executive director will assign two faculty members as primary and secondary advisers to work with the student throughout completion of the project.
Students are also responsible for the typing and copying of the research project.
The project process will culminate with the oral examination of the candidate by a faculty committee. This group consists of the student's research advisers, the MBA executive director, two readers and others invited to the oral review. The student should register for MBA 601 in the semester during which he or she expects to begin the project. This grade will not adversely affect the grade point average of the student for that particular term. The completion or failure to complete the MBA project during a later term will then result in a change of the previous IP grade.