Ph.D. in Business
Administration
Mission •
Admission • Prerequisite
Common Body of Knowledge • Graduate
Committees
Graduate Program •
Doctoral Examinations • Doctoral
Review • Important Forms
Graduate Committees
Each student's course of study and research is directed
by a committee of graduate faculty called a Graduate Committee. A Graduate
Committee must contain at least five members, all of whom must be members
of the Graduate Faculty. The Graduate Committee that works with the
student through the course work stage of the program is the Graduate
Program Committee. When the student completes all course work, and requirements
thereof, the Graduate Program Committee is dissolved, and the Graduate
Committee is reformulated as the Graduate Dissertation Committee.
- Program Committee
The Program Committee is the student's initial Graduate Committee.
The committee is composed of the following: the chairman, who must
be a full member of the Graduate Faculty from the student's major
field; at least two other members from the major field of study;
one member from the minor field or support area; and one member
from the College of Business and Industry excluding the major and
minor fields. This Graduate Committee is charged with specifying
the courses that will constitute the student's Program of Graduate
Study and administering the comprehensive examination. The Graduate
Program Committee is dissolved when the student passes the comprehensive
examination.
- Dissertation Committee
The Graduate Committee formed following a successful comprehensive
examination is the student's Dissertation Committee. The base requirements
constituting the committee are as follows: all members must be on
the Graduate Faculty; three members, one of which is the chairman
who must be a full member of the Graduate Faculty, are from the
student's major; and the remaining two members from areas germane
to the dissertation. One member of the committee, who may or may
not be the chairman, is designated as the dissertation director.
This committee is charged with approval of the dissertation topic
proposal and administering and grading of the Final Defense of the
Dissertation.
• Dissertation Sub-Committee
The Dissertation Sub-Committee is composed of the Dissertation
Director and two other members from the Graduate Dissertation
Committee. While all members of the Dissertation Committee should
be viewed as resources available to the student, the Sub-Committee
is the group that will work actively with the student throughout
the dissertation process. The members of the Dissertation Sub-Committee
are referred to as Active members, and for this reason the Sub-Committee
is often referred to as the Active Committee.
• Dissertation Readers
Members of the Graduate Dissertation Committee who are not part
of the Dissertation Sub-committee are referred to as Readers.
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