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targets students from nonbusiness backgrounds who would like to
gain "core" business knowledge and application skills. Requirements
span the traditional business disciplines to produce a sound
knowledge base for students seeking a solid business foundation.
Students are required to take such courses as accounting, finance,
economics, entrepreneurship, management, marketing,
organizational behavior, and statistics. Typical positions for
graduates include managers, consultants, and analysts.
Doctor of Philosophy: For the Ph.D. in business administration,
students must have a concentration in one of the following:
--Accounting
--Decision and information sciences
--Finance
--Insurance
--Management
--Marketing
--Real estate and urban analysis.
Specific requirements for the various departments and specialties
are given in the Fields of Instruction in this catalog. (For example,
requirements for the Ph.D. degree in economics are given in the
Economics section of the catalog.) All candidates for the Ph.D. in
business administration must satisfy the following general
requirements:
Breadth requirement: All applicants for Ph.D. in the business
administration program are expected to have completed prior
business-related course work at either the advanced undergraduate
or graduate level. Students entering without prior work are required
to take a minimum of three graduate courses in at least two fields
other than their chosen area of concentration. Most often, the
appropriate courses will be found in the M.B.A. first-year core; the
particular courses to be taken by a student will be decided in
consultation with the student's academic adviser. After a student
enters the Ph.D. program, the courses taken to satisfy the breadth
requirement must be taken in the College of Business
Administration.
Research foundations requirement: All students must complete a
six-course research skills sequence that prepares them for scholarly
research in their chosen area of concentration. Research foundations
are defined as essential methodological tools (e.g., statistics,
quantitative analysis) and/or substantive content domains (e.g.,
psychology, economics) outside the student's major field that are
considered essential to conducting high quality research in the
chosen field. The specific research skills required by each area of
concentration can be found in the field descriptions in this Catalog.
Other requirements include satisfactory completion of graduate