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The Ph.D. in the College of Business Administration requires a minimum of 69 course credit hours and a minimum of 6 dissertation credit hours beyond the baccalaureate degree. To ensure sufficient background for doctoral-level courses, students must demonstrate appropriate competence in quantitative reasoning, which is evidenced through completion of Econ 3150 and BA 5000 or their equivalent. Students must also demonstrate appropriate competence in managerial communication, which is evident through completion of BA 5100 or equivalent to be determined by the Ph.D. Coordinator.
General Education Coursework
(40 credit hours)
Business & Research Foundation Requirement:
9 Courses (27 credit hours)
- IS 5800: Management Information Systems 1
- LOM 5300: Statistical Analysis for Management Decisions 1
- BA 5900: Law, Ethics, and Business 1
- ACCTG 5400: Financial and Managerial Accounting 1
- FIN 6500: Financial Management 1
- MGMT 5600: Organizational Behavior and Administrative Processes 1
- MKTG 5700: Contemporary Marketing Concepts 1
- LOM 5320: Production and Operations Management 1
- LOM 7300: Statistical Modeling
Supporting Field Requirement: (9 credit hours)
- Students must take 9 credit hours of graduate level courses beyond foundation course work in a supporting field. Supporting fields may include areas of business such as Accounting, Finance, Management, Management Science, and Marketing. Students may select supporting fields from outside the College of Business Administration (such as Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Political Science, Psychology, etc.) with the approval of the Ph.D. Coordinator.
IS Coursework
(10 courses -- 30 credit hours)
Required IS Courses:
- IS 6805: Applications of Programming for Business Solutions
- IS 6836: Telecommunications: Design and Management
- IS 6840: Information Systems Analysis
- IS 6845: Database Management Systems
- IS 7021: Qualitative Methods and Philosophical Foundations of Business Administration Research
- IS 7890: IS research seminar
- IS 7891: Quantitative research methods in IS
- IS 7892: Doctoral Seminar in Current Information Systems Topics
- IS 7893: Special Topics in IS
- IS 7894: Theoretical Foundations of Information Systems Research
Electives: Students are required to take 6 credit hours (2 courses not included elsewhere) from the list of approved elective courses for the IS Emphasis. They include:
- LOM 5301: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
- LOM 6840: Experimental and Survey Design and Analysis
- IS 6806: Managerial Applications of Object-Oriented Technologies
- IS 6807: Business Programming and File Systems
- IS 6808: Internet Programming for Business
- IS 6838: Business Processes: Design, Management and Implementation
- IS 6846: Management of Global Sourcing
- IS 6847: IS Financial and Project Management
- IS 6848: Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence
- IS 6881: Management of Transnational Information Systems
- IS 6831: Internship in Advanced MIS Applications
- IS 6837: Information Systems Architecture
- IS 6835: IT-Enabled Business
- IS 6832: Information Systems Strategy
- IS 6850: Information Systems Design
- IS 6833: Decision Support Systems
- IS 6834: Fourth Generation Languages and End-User Computing
Other Requirements
 Students will be evaluated annually for satisfactory progress. Students deemed not to be making adequate progress are subject to the policies of the College of Business Administration regarding continuation of their assistantship. Students deemed not to be making adequate progress are subject to the policies of the Graduate School and the College of Business Administration regarding probation and dismissal from the program.
Students admitted to the program with a relevant Masters degree should pass the comprehensive examination and the supporting field examination within three years of admission to the Ph.D. program.
Students admitted to the program with an undergraduate business degree should pass the comprehensive examination and the supporting field examination within four years of admission to the Ph.D. program.
Students admitted to the program with an undergraduate degree outside of business should pass the comprehensive examination and the supporting field examination within five years of admission to the Ph.D. program.
Students are required to present one paper at a regional, national or international conference.
Students are required to submit one paper, approved by their dissertation advisor, to a refereed journal.
Students are required to demonstrate competency in teaching during the first year in which they teach in the College of Business Administration. This requirement may be met by successfully completing one or more courses.
At least two courses of supervised teaching in the College of Business Administration are required of all doctoral students.
Upon completing course work, students are advanced to candidacy by successfully completing a comprehensive examination in the field of IS and a supporting field examination in the student's chosen area.
Students are required to take a minimum of 6 dissertation credit hours and to defend a dissertation proposal within one year of advancement to candidacy.
Students are required to defend orally a dissertation proposal within one year of being advanced to candidacy.
The degree is awarded upon successful completion and defense of the Ph.D. dissertation. The dissertation must be defended orally within three years after approval of a Ph.D. dissertation proposal.
Students must satisfy all Graduate School requirements.
Notes
- 1 The first eight courses (5800, 5300, 5900, 5400, 6500, 5600, 5700, 5320) will normally be waived if students have a UMSL MBA, MS in MISIS, or MAcc degree,
or had equivalent graduate coursework at an institution approved by the Graduate Business Programs Office and the Ph.D. Coordinator.
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