Overview and Requirements

Sasin/Kellogg Ph.D. Program Overview
The Sasin Ph.D. program is designed for candidates with outstanding intellectual abilities and a strong commitment to research. The program is highly individualized reflecting each student's unique background, abilities and research interests. The Sasin Ph.D. program offers two areas of concentration: Finance and Marketing.

In Year 1, each entering student selects an Area Adviser during the first quarter who will help plan the coursework that will give the student the necessary knowledge in business administration, business research and the chosen area of concentration. During the first quarter of Year 1 when an Area Advisor has not been selected, the Head of the Ph.D. Program will act as an Area Advisor for all entering students. In Year 1, students must take required courses, electives and the Preliminary Qualifying Examination at Sasin. Students normally take three courses each quarter during Year 1 at Sasin.

In order to provide students with breadth and depth of learning, as well as a global perspective with regional relevance, the Sasin Ph.D. Program is designed so that students spend their second year (the "Kellogg Year") at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University before returning to Sasin to complete their dissertation research. In Year 2, students must take required courses, electives and an Area Comprehensive Examination. Students normally take four courses each quarter during Year 2 at Kellogg.

In Years 3 and 4, which will normally be completed at Sasin, students concentrate more on their research. Before the beginning of Year 4, each student must select a dissertation topic, choose a Dissertation Chair, present his/her preliminary research in at least one Sasin Tiffin Meeting (must occur before the Oral Qualifying Examination) and take the Oral Qualifying Examination (Dissertation Proposal Defense). In Year 4 or 5, students should successfully defend his/her dissertation and graduate. Most students are expected to complete their Ph.D. study in four to five years of full-time study.

Ph.D. students are admitted only in June. Transfer credit recommendations are made at the time of admission. All classes are taken for grades. Pass/no pass is not permitted. Students enrolling without backgrounds in MBA follow similar study plans, but they need additional quarters of MBA coursework to acquire the necessary general background. Throughout the study, the Head of the Ph.D. Program will help students with issues such as registration procedures, financial aid, clarification of degree requirements and deadlines.

Registration Requirements
The minimum course load must be at least three (3) credits per quarter. The maximum course load per quarter for any student is 12 credits per quarter. Ph.D. students must maintain full-time status for the duration of their study.

Residency Requirements
The minimum residency requirement is four full years of study, including at least three years at Sasin and one year at Kellogg. Students will normally complete all Ph.D. requirements within four to five years.

Minimum Grade Requirements
At any time during the study at Sasin, Ph.D. students with a cumulative grade point average below 3.0 must see the Area Advisor and the Head of Ph.D. Program for consultation. More importantly, Ph.D. students with this condition (beyond the first quarter of Year 1) are put on probation and must bring their cumulative grade point average to 3.0 by the end of the following quarter.

If a student fails to do this, he/she may be removed from Sasin by vote of the Ph.D. Program Committee which has been delegated the responsibility for hearing the matter. This determination will be made on a case by case basis after reviewing the individual student's coursework, strengths, and weaknesses. In such a case, the student’s registration will be terminated at the close of the quarter.

A passing grade cannot be changed by taking a second examination or by repeating the course. The complete history of a student’s registration is recorded on a permanent record card.

Academic Dishonesty
A student who is guilty of dishonesty in academic work is subject to penalties ranging from failure of a course, to suspension, to removal from Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration. It is the responsibility of the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration to review all cases of academic dishonesty, including:

Plagiarism:
Submitting material that in part or whole is not the student’s own work without having attributed those same portions to their correct source.

Cheating:
Having unauthorized notes, study aids, or information from another student or student’s paper during an examination; altering a graded work after it has been returned and then re-submitting the work for grading; or allowing another person to do one’s work and to submit that work under one’s own name.

Fabrication:
Presenting data in work which were not gathered in accordance with guidelines defining the appropriate methods for collecting or generating data and failing to include the substantially accurate account of the method by which the data were gathered or collected.

Aiding and Abetting Dishonesty:
Providing material or information to another person with the knowledge that this material or information would be used improperly.

Falsification of Records and Official Documents:
Altering documents affecting academic records: or forging signatures of authorization/falsifying information on an official academic document, grade report, letter of permission, petition, and drop/ add form, or any other document designed to meet, or exempt a student from, an established Sasin regulation.

Honor code
The students of the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration regard honesty and integrity as qualities essential to the practice and profession of management. The purpose of the Sasin Honor Code is to promote these qualities so that each student can fully develop his or her individual potential, and is administered by students, based on the concept of self-governance.

Upon admission, each student makes an agreement (he/she will sign The Sasin Honor Code Covenant) with his or her fellow students to abide by the Sasin Honor Code. Students who violate the Sasin Honor Code violate this agreement and must accept the sanction imposed by the Sasin community. All Sasin students are also expected to adhere to all policies and requirements of Chulalongkorn University and to abide by all applicable by laws and regulations.