ph.d. program guidebook - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of ...

INTRODUCTION
This guidebook provides relevant information for doctoral students – current and prospective -- at Rice
University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business (JGS). You may access this guidebook, as well
as other information about the doctoral program and the JGS, at the following internet addresses:
http://business.rice.edu/PhD
This guidebook complements Rice University’s General Announcements Catalog. Knowledge of policies
outlined in both books is every student’s responsibility.
G o a l s o f t h e J G S D o c t o r a l P r o g r a m
The JGS doctoral program is intended for candidates aspiring to become faculty members at business
schools in prestigious research universities. Students will engage in both coursework and research as part
of their doctoral training. Students close to graduation will interview for faculty positions, hoping to start
their careers as Assistant Professors, at business schools around the world. The career of an Assistant
Professor involves conducting research that is eventually published in well respected, peer-reviewed
academic journals, imparting management wisdom (informed by research) in the classroom to BSBA and
MBA students aspiring to become effective managers, and eventually training Ph.D. students to become
researchers and academics. In due course, a successful (on research, teaching and service dimensions, as
deemed by senior faculty colleagues) Assistant Professor is promoted to Associate Professor, and
thereafter to Full Professor. How quickly one achieves these promotions depends on one’s productivity
as an academic scholar.
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