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Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.)
Background Preparation
Students admitted into the DBA degree program are required to have proper business background preparation for taking the graduate level coursework. The student must clear all deficiencies before being allowed to take the degree required courses. A student with deficiency in any required background subject must clear it before enrolling in graduate level courses and may clear the subject by choosing any of the following options:(1) taking and passing the appropriate preparatory module course,(2) Taking and passing the individual subject course and earning a grade of at least C- or higher or(3)With advance approval by the academic review committee, the student may be allowed to take proficiency exams to clear each deficiency subject. The student must also follow the English requirement described in the chapter of Admission Policies. The following are the four busniess preparatory modules covering all the required background subjects: Preparatory Module A(PBUS01): Essentials of Management and Business Law Preparatory Module B(PBUS02): Essentials of Economics and Marketing Preparatory Module C(PBUS03): Essentials of Accounting and Finance Preparatory Module D(PBUS04): Essentials of Quantitative Analysis and Information Technology Module A corresponds to the individual courses of MGT201 and LAW310, Module B for ECON201 and MKT310, Module C for ACC201 and FIN310, and Module D for MATH208 and IT310 and IT370. A minimum of 102 semester units of graduate study are required for the D.B.A. program. Among them, 90 units are required to be graduate course work and a minimum of 12 units are in doctoral thesis or capstone research project work. Courses at 4xxG level must be taken at NPU in order to earn graduate credits. The student must meet prerequisite requirements when taking any of the following courses. I. Foundation Requirements (First year of study) (30 units) (Foundation in enterprise management and information systems, quantitative analysis) Courses listed in this section should be completed by the student in the first year of study in the program. units IT450G Enterprise Information System Fundamentals (3) MGT450G Organizational Behavior and Management (3) MGT460G Production and Operations Management (3) MGT480G Entrepreneurship and Venture Business (3) MKT450G Marketing Management (3) BUS501 Quantitative Methods for Business (3) FIN501 Financial Management (3) FIN510 Investments (3) MGT530 Logistics and Operations Management (3) MGT531 Human Resources Management (3) II. Core Requirements (Second year of study) (30 units) In addition to the first year foundation coursework, the student must take advanced level graduate courses (courses at 500 level and above), a research methodology course, research seminar, and teaching/TA training courses, as well as courses to prepare breadth of study for further mastery of the subjects of interest and in-depth understanding of related research. Courses described in this section (section II) should be taken by the student immediately following the required foundation courses described in section I after the student has presented his/her Statement of Purpose to the DBA Academic Review Committee and received the committee's approval to proceed in the program. units FIN568 Corporate Finance (3) IT560 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) (3) LAW570 Modern Law of Corporations (3) MGT501 Project and Risk Management (3) MKT541 Strategic Marketing (3) IT602 Emergent Information Technology for Business (3) MGT601 Strategic Management (3) MGT603 Manpower Planning (3) DBA601 Research Methodology (3) DBA602A Research Seminar - I (1) DBA602B Research Seminar - II (1) DBA603 Teaching/TA Training Seminar (1) III. Advanced Studies and Electives (Third year of study) (30 units) A. Advanced Studies: units LAW670 Intellectual Property Law (3) MGT635 Advanced Operations Management (3) MGT685 Organizational Learning in Global business (3) MKT630 Consumer Behavior (3) MKT632 New Product Development (3) B. Electives: (15 units) The student may take any advanced graduate courses to meet the elective requirements. However, doctoral candidates are encouraged to take concentrated course work to address their career development plan or research interests. With the assistance and approval by an adviser, the student takes a minimum of 15 units of coursework at 500 level or above to fulfill this requirement. IV. Doctoral Thesis (12 units) A Doctoral Thesis Committee (DTC) must be formed and approved by the Doctoral Advisory Committee before the student starts his doctoral research. The doctoral candidate is required to earn a minimum of 12 units in the work towards completion of Doctoral Thesis to meet the graduation requirement. units DBA799 Dissertation - I (6) DBA800 Dissertation - II (6) D.B.A. Total Requirements: (min. 102 units) |
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