COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

 

ACADEMIC OPERATING POLICY AND PROCEDURE

 

COBI-AOP NUMBER:          23.20

 

SUBJECT:     Minimum Total Course Work Requirements for the Ph.D. in Business Administration

 

DATE:                        May 4, 2000

 

DESCRIPTION OF POLICY:

The minimum course work requirement for the Ph.D. is 51 graduate credit hours beyond the baccalaureate degree for all majors.  A minimum of 36 graduate credit hours of course work must be taken in the student’s program at Mississippi State University.

 

DESCRIPTION OF PROCESS FOR CHANGING POLICY:

Majority vote by the College of Business and Industry Graduate Faculty.

 

DESCRIPTION OF RELATED PROCEDURE:

This requirement is to be applied by the student’s graduate program committee in specifying the student’s program of graduate study.

 

REVIEW OF POLICY/PROCEDURE:

This COBI-AOP will be reviewed at least every five years by the Graduate Policies Committee at the request of the Graduate Director with request for revision presented to the College of Business and Industry Graduate Faculty.

 

APPROVED:

 

________________________________                        Date_________________

Reviewer

 

________________________________                        Date_________________

Dean, College of Business and Industry

 

Revision history (dates only):

            Original:          ???

            Revision:        May 2, 1973

            Revision:        April 30, 1984

            Revision:        May 8, 1986

            Revision:        June 19, 1992

 

 

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