Administration of the Program

The Ph.D. Program Director, members of the Ph.D. Policy Committee, and faculty teaching Ph.D. seminars are required to be members of the University of Missouri-Columbia doctoral faculty. The University requires each student to have a five-member Doctoral Program Committee (with one member from outside Accounting). This committee is initially assigned by the Ph.D. Program Director who also chairs the committee until the comprehensive written and oral examinations are passed. At this point, the chair and committee membership will be reconstituted to select appropriate faculty given the dissertation topic area selected by the student. See the Graduate Catalogue for additional details on doctoral program requirements and administration at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

The following forms must be field at appropriate stages of the program:

Form D-1: Filed after the successful completion of first-year course work and upon selection of committee.

Form D-2: Filed at the end of the second-year of course work.

Form D-3: Filed at the completion of written exams.

Form D-4: Filed after the thesis defense.