First, we offer the flexibility to tailor a program that will fit your needs and produce a graduate who will be well accepted in the academic marketplace. Second, we offer an open, responsive relationship among doctoral students and faculty. Course requirements include 10 courses in your major and supporting areas and five courses in research methodology. We also expect that students will have or acquire knowledge of each of the five functional areas of business, microeconomics and macroeconomics equivalent to that in the first year of an MBA program. An important feature of the program is the requirement that students complete a research paper during the summer and fall after their first year in the Program.
Students work closely with faculty to produce a potentially publishable paper.
It is evaluated much the same as a journal's editorial review board would proceed. The primary purpose of the paper requirement is to help students develop skills and experience at doing research. Additionally, our doctoral students occasionally take courses from neighboring universities. In addition to course work, you are required to complete a summer research paper at the end of the first year in the program and, in the second year, you must pass an area examination. You must also defend your dissertation proposal and the final dissertation.