Ph.D. Program Structure and Requirements

A student in the Information Systems Ph.D. Program will choose, usually during the first year, one of two possible tracks, either the Electronic Commerce Track or the Organizational Track. The first year of the Ph.D. Program is structured around five core courses. During the fall semester of the first year all students take courses in Information Systems Readings, Electronic Commerce and Microeconomics. In the spring semester of the first year, students in the Electronic Commerce Track take a second course in Electronic Commerce and a second course in Microeconomics, while students in the Organizational Track take a course on Information Technology Topics and another on Information Systems Management Topics.

Two minor fields are selected by the student to serve the purpose of broadening one's scope of knowledge and meeting research needs. Students also take a two-course sequence in statistics to provide the quantitative skills necessary to do empirical research in the field of Information Systems.