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Ph.D. Program Guidebook 2007-2008
CHAPTER 11 – COURSE REGISTRATION AND GRADING
APPROVAL OF COURSE REGISTRATION
First-year Ph.D. students must have their autumn quarter registration approved by the
Associate Director or the Director of the Ph.D. Program.
All Ph.D. students should discuss their course schedule with the Associate Director in any
quarter in which their course schedule varies from the most recent approved five-year
academic program plan.
REGISTRATION: GSB COURSES
Ph.D. students register for GSB courses through the on-line registration bidding system.
Questions or problems with Online Registration Bidding System (ORB) may be addressed to
the Information Manager. Failure to register on time (prior to the first week of the
quarter) will result in a late registration fee. Students who are in advanced residence and
are not planning to take courses do not need to participate in the course bidding system, as
they are automatically registered. Please note that the GSB will be transitioning to a new
bidding system in Spring 2007 and that the below will change as a result.
Registration Bidding System (RBS)
Registration for each quarter generally begins Friday of week six of the previous quarter with
the final round of drop/add/swap (DAS) occurring week one of the current quarter. All bids
must be entered on the Online Registration Bidding System (ORB). After regular bidding,
there are several rounds of DAS, where students make adjustments to their schedule.
Complete registration instructions are available on the GSB Portal at portal.chicagogsb.edu.
Refer to the calendar on the Portal and in the back of this guidebook for registration
deadlines.
Sufficient bidding points are allocated to Ph.D. students so that they can “purchase” the
schedule they need for their academic program. Ph.D. students start the program with 8,000
bidding points. No points are charged for registering for Ph.D.-level classes, although Ph.D.
students must bid at least one bidding point in order to register for classes. Since no points
are paid for registering in Ph.D.-level courses, no points are accrued for completing them.
Thus, the 8,000 point “bank” remains in place for the next quarter’s bidding.
Points may be charged, however, when Ph.D. students take M.B.A.-level courses. Points will
be charged only when demand for the course they are taking exceeds supply, and a price is
set. If a price is set, that amount is deducted from the 8,000 point “bank” with which Ph.D.
students start the program. For each M.B.A.-level course which Ph.D. students take, they will
accrue an additional 2,000 points. The points that are carried forward to the next quarter are
the initial amount (8,000), less any points paid for M.B.A. courses, plus 2,000 additional
points for each M.B.A. course taken.
The bidding point allocation for Ph.D. students is sufficiently large to guarantee that students
can register for course sections required for the General Examination course requirements.
For those Ph.D. students who take M.B.A.-level courses, further information on bidding
history and closing points are available in the bidding instructions found on-line in the online
registration bidding system.
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