Curriculum

MIS Ph.D. Program Requirements

The requirements for the MIS doctoral degree involve doctoral coursework, a research readiness requirement, the General Exam, and the successful completion of a dissertation. Most adequately prepared doctoral candidates should be able to complete these requirements in a four-year time period.

 

COURSEWORK
The doctoral coursework involves 47 hours of required courses as follows (students without prior MBA coursework may also have to take up to 21 hours of MBA core courses):

  • 18 hours of statistics and research methods courses
  • 14 hours of MIS research seminars
  • 9 hours of management and/or marketing research seminars
  • 6 hours of electives

RESEARCH READINESS REQUIREMENT
MIS doctoral candidates will begin an independent research project (under the supervision of a MIS faculty member) during their first summer in residence. This project must be completed by the end of the student's second summer in residence. The product of this research effort is to be submitted for presentation at a major conference and, ideally, submitted for publication to an appropriate journal. Students must complete this requirement before sitting for their General Exam.

 

GENERAL EXAM
After completing coursework and the research readiness requirement but prior to beginning the dissertation, each MIS doctoral candidate must successfully pass a written exam covering their (1) major, concentration and elective coursework, (2) understanding of the MIS research literature as represented by a bibliography prepared and approved by the MIS Division's Standing Divisional Doctoral Advisory Committee, and (3) capability to fabricate and justify a research design given an assigned phenomenon to be investigated.

 

DISSERTATION

  • Upon successful completion of the General Exam, a Doctoral Advisory Committee is constituted to oversee the formulation, completion and evaluation of each MIS doctoral candidate's dissertation.

MIS Ph.D. Program Coursework

Graduate College requirements require 90 hours past the Bachelor's degree for the Ph.D. of which a maximum of 30 hours can be the dissertation.

 

PREREQUISITES

  • Background Courses in: linear algebra, differential calculus, integration techniques and optimization
  • MBA core courses: microeconomics, macroeconomics, financial accounting, financial management, marketing management, organizational behavior, and production/operations management.

 

REQUIRED

  • Graduate Statistics/Quantitative Methods (9 hours)
  • Graduate Research Methods (6 hours)

 

MIS MAJOR

  • Managing Technological Innovation and Use
  • Governance and Control
  • Computer-Mediated Communication and Decision Making
  • Management seminar (either MGT6253 - Organization Theory, MGT6293 – Strategic Management, or MGT6273 - Organizational Behavior)

 

CONCENTRATION

Three doctoral seminars offered by the Division of Management or Division of Marketing and Supply Chain Management and approved by the MIS Ph.D. faculty coordinator.

 

ADDITIONAL BASIC

Two directed readings courses (research projects, taken during summer)