BA 730: Comprehensive Examination

Credit Hours: 3

Estimated Hours Per Week: 20

Overview

The JIU School of Business DBA program requires each student to demonstrate his/her mastery of program content by passing the comprehensive written examination (i.e., “written comps”). Prior to taking written comps, a student must complete successfully the entire core-content course sequence. In other words, a student should enter BA730 with a thorough understanding of the DBA program’s core business and methodology content, and should be prepared to write on these areas.

The students begin with a list of 12 questions drawn from the core areas, and then select and write on five of these topics. Each of the student’s five answers is evaluated by two professors — qualified by their content expertise — who evaluate the answer on both quality of writing and on content. Each professor evaluates the answer on a pass/no pass basis.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Students will complete and pass a written comprehensive examination.

ENROLLMENT

To enroll in this course, please complete the online application.

Required Texts
BA 730 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore