The Ph.D. in Administration is a 90-credit program: 30 credits for course work and 60 for the thesis. The program is broken down into three phases.
Consists of upgrade courses in management or courses in your specialization.
This phase is usually required of students with a background other than in management.
Includes a minimum of seven seminars, including one seminar in education and one in methodology.
This phase is determined jointly by the student and the Phase II supervisory committee and must be approved by the local and joint committees. It includes a comprehensive examination (9 credits).
Your committee must consist of at least three members from the management faculties of the four participating universities: one committee chair who must be from HEC Montréal and at least two other members, one of whom must come from one of the other three universities participating in the joint Ph.D. program.
Determine the list of seminars to be taken in your specialization phase. Create and have the student write the comprehensive examination.
Seminars(21 credits minimum) | Comprehensive examination(9 credits) |
Compulsory(6 credits)
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Field of specialization(15 credits)
Note: All seminars must be approved by the local and joint committees. The courses, reports and examinations must be done or submitted in English or in French. |
Choose your courses for the term in question only. However, at the start of the academic year, you should plan your courses for the entire year.
Registration
To register to HEC Montréal's seminars, you must do your registration in my profile (HEC en ligne).
You must also register in the following activity for all terms:
Registration at another institution
Would you like to take a seminar at another university?
If the course you would like to take is offered at UQAM, complete the Authorization to transfer credits form (Procedure).
You would like to follow a course outside the joint program. In that case, you have to obtain the approval from the program's local and joint committees when you present your phase II form for approval. You have to submit to the Ph.D. program direction the course outline and the CV of the professor teaching the courses you wish to be recognized.
You may also submit for recognition courses followed before your entry in the Ph.D. program. In that case, you must obtain the approval of the program's local and joint committees when you present your phase II form for approval. You have to submit to the Ph.D. program direction the course outline and the CV of the professor teaching the courses you wish to be recognized.
Cancellation of a seminar
To unregister a seminar, you must use the same form completed at registration. Cancellation without paying tuition fees can be done at the latest before the second session of the seminar. Cancellation without a failure can be done until the deadline to withdrawal without refund (see academic calendar).
Before you complete 15 credits’ worth of courses, you must:
establish the Phase II committee
in conjunction with the committee, determine the content of your Phase II
have your Phase II action plan approved by the Academic Office and the local and joint committees.
Form: Phase II Form ( Doc Format – 150 Ko) to be signed by all members of the student’s committee and submitted to the office of the Program Director.
The Phase II Supervisory Committee must declare that the student has passed or failed the comprehensive examination; the Committee may also postpone the examination, but only once. In such a case, the extra time granted to the student cannot exceed six months. The Committee makes its decision by majority vote. In the case of a tie, the Committee Chair’s vote takes precedence. In the case of joint chairs, only one vote can take precedence.
Once the date of your comprehensive exam is settled, you must contact the secretary of the Ph.D. program to obtain the form «Atteinte d'objectifs d'apprentissage - Examen de synthèse». You have to submit this form to your phase II committee the day of the oral part of your exam.
Form: Comprehensive Exam Report (Doc Format – 143 Ko) to be completed by the Chair of the Phase II Committee, signed by all members of the Committee, and submitted to the Academic Office.
The maximum duration of Phase II is three years as of the start of the first course taken as part of the Ph.D. program.
Thesis committee
Your committee must consist of at least three members from the management faculties of the four participating universities: one committee chair who must be from the HEC Montreal and at least two other members, one of whom must come from one of the other three universities participating in the joint Ph.D. program. This committee can be the same as your specialization phase committee.
Role
Guide the student in writing his or her thesis.
Objective
Write a thesis proposal in collaboration with your committee. Present your thesis proposal publicly in order to have your topic accepted.
Thesis submission
Once your thesis has been completed to the satisfaction of your thesis committee and submitted to the Ph.D. Program Secretariat, the thesis committee is chosen and a public thesis defence is scheduled. .
Thesis defence
The thesis committee can accept your thesis for the purpose of the defence, reject it or allow you to re-submit it only once, pending corrections, within a maximum of one year. Your doctoral candidacy will be terminated if the thesis committee votes unanimously to reject your thesis either before or after you defend it. For your thesis to be accepted, the thesis committee’s decision must be unanimous.
Previous thesis submission and defence (in French only)
