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Ph.D./MBA Joint Degree Program

The faculties of the College of Medicine and the College of Business Administration have approved a dual degree culminating in both a Ph.D., awarded by the College of Medicine and an MBA awarded by the College of Business Administration. Under the dual degree program, whose purpose is to train scientists to assume responsibilities as active research managers in the biomedical sciences, a student can obtain both degrees if pursued consecutively, or 5-7 years for the two degrees. Essential criteria relating to the joint degree program are as follows:

1. Candidates for the joint program must follow the admission procedures and be accepted by both colleges. They must meet the entrance requirements for both colleges with the exception of the prior work requirement of the College of Business Administration. This requirement is waived after satisfactory completion of the first year in the College of Medicine. Students are required to take both the GRE and GMAT exams. Students admitted into the joint program will spend their first year classified as IDP students and will be given a deferred admission into the MBA program starting in the Fall of their second year. Deferred admission will be contingent on their successful completion of the first year of the IDP. After final admission to the MBA program their college classification will be changed to "CD" (concurrent degree) with an appropriate major/track code to be assigned by the Registrar's Office. Should a student in either program decide they want to enter the joint program, both colleges must be informed by the student at the time of application to the second program.
   
   
2. The joint degree program is not open to students who have already earned one of the degrees. Students not admitted to the joint Ph.D./MBA program may still be admitted to either the MBA or the IDP (Ph.D.) program by the respective college.
   
   
3. Admission to the second program is required no later than the end of the penultimate year of one degree of the joint degree program.
   
   
4. A student must satisfy the curriculum requirements for each degree before either degree is awarded. Thus, the student will receive the MBA and the Ph.D. simultaneously. The MBA will not be awarded until the students have finished the Ph.D. and vice versa, unless s/he has satisfied to requirements of one of the degrees as if s/he had not been a joint degree candidate.
   
   
5. A student enrolled in the joint degree program must spend the first year in the College of Medicine IDP program.
   
   
6. The number of credits required for the two degrees is 114, 36 for the MBA and 78 for the Ph.D. This represents a reduction of 12 hours in each program.
   
   
7. Students in the joint program will be eligible for the stipends given in the College of Medicine for all but the second (College of Business Administration) year of the program, with the first year's stipend being a revocable loan that would be forgiven when the students are awarded the Ph.D.
   
   
8. The program began in August, 1998.