Students must take (or receive a waiver based on equivalent master's level courses) MGMT 610 (Financial Management I), MGMT 611 (Financial Management II), and MGMT 641 (Options and Futures) plus any 3 of the below five core courses:

MGMT 600 Financial Accounting

MGMT 620 Marketing Management

MGMT 650 Strategic Management

MGMT 660 Operations Management

OBHR 681 Behavior in Organizations

Research Methods Requirement:

Competence in Research Writing:

Students must complete a research paper in at least one of the two doctoral seminars in finance offered in their first year in the program. In addition, students are expected to be working on research projects ( individually or in collaboration with faculty) during the summer between the first and second year in the program. At the beginning of the summer term, each first year student must submit a one-page research plan for the summer to the Ph.D. student advisor. At the end of the summer term, each student's progress in research writing will be evaluated by the Ph.D. student advisor along with the finance faculty.

Research-Methods Topics

Each finance student must complete research-methods topics in (a) Applied Statistics, and (b) Advanced Statistics/Econometrics. To complete the research-methods topic in Applied Statistics, the student must take 3 courses, one from each of the categories listed in the revised Ph.D. Program in Management. To complete the research-methods topic in Advanced Statistics or Econometrics, the student must take two courses from those listed in the revised Ph.D. Program in Management. A third course may be required by the finance faculty if warranted by the student's research interests.

A student may petition to complete a research-methods topic other than Applied Statistics or Advanced Statistics/Econometrics. Such a change in curriculum will require approval of the Ph.D. student Advisor & the finance Area Coordinator in conjunction with the finance faculty.

Each student must take a series of four doctoral seminars in finance. If a student performs poorly in any of these seminars or performs poorly on the preliminary examination, he/she may be required to re-take one or more of the doctoral seminars. In addition, each student is required to take MGMT 690, Topics in Finance, each semester that he/she is in the program.

Finance students are required to complete a minor in Economics. To do so, each student must take ECON 607 (Price Theory) and ECON 615 (Mathematics for Economists). In addition, each student must take two other economics courses from the following set:

Other Ph.D. courses may be substituted to fulfill this requirement at the discretion of the faculty.

Students are required to submit a formal plan of study to the Graduate School by the end of the Spring Semester of their second year in the program, and prior to taking the preliminary examination.

Students are required to pass the preliminary examination in finance held in May on completion of the second year in the program. If a student fails the exam, the student must retake the exam in January and if the student fails again, he or she will be dropped from the program.

Within twelve months after passing the preliminary examination, each student must formally present and defend a dissertation research proposal to his/her dissertation committee. To be accepted, the proposal must represent substantial progress towards completion of a doctoral thesis along with a statement of further work to be performed. Once accepted by the committee, the proposal is considered a "contract" that will guide the student towards completion of the dissertation. A student may be dropped from the program if there is a significant delay in achieving an acceptable proposal.

Each student is required to make a public defense of his/her dissertation. The required procedures for holding a dissertation defense are listed in the revised Ph.D. Program in Management.