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Programme Details: Years 3 and beyond

Dissertation Credits

  • From year 3 onwards, when the doctoral students begin to work in their dissertation work, they are required to register for dissertation credits under the supervision of faculty guiding their dissertation. 

  • The student must document the goals objectives, expected outcomes, and deliverables at the start the term and the guiding faculty provides feedback on the progress at the end of the term. 

Teaching Assistantship 

  • Teaching Assistantship (TA) work is typically assigned from Year 3. 

  • The task of TA requires that the student should sit through classes and grade. He/she should develop teaching material and material for tutorials, and in exceptional cases perhaps handle a session or two.

  • Usually, the Area Chairperson assigns the TA duties for the doctoral students. 

Comprehensive Examination

  • A Doctoral Programme student is eligible to take the Comprehensive Examination if the student: 

    • Maintains a satisfactory CGPA in coursework in Year 1 and in Year 2 

    • Maintains satisfactory performance in IS and RA taken in Year 1 and Year 2 

    • Satisfies core course CGPA requirements specified by the area (if any)

  • The exam consists of a Written Exam and an Oral Viva. 

  • The written part of the Comprehensive Examination assesses the student’s conceptual and methodological capability, and ability to perform independent research in his/her area of interest.

  • The Viva-Voce part of the Comprehensive Examination assesses the student’s conceptual understanding and ability to articulate understanding of a topic and related fields/streams, interpret questions and respond in an appropriate manner.

Dissertation Advisory Committee (DAC)

  • After passing the Comprehensive Examination, the student finalises the topic for his/her dissertation research. The student is expected to choose a topic for research in his/her area of specialization, which may be any functional area of management or application of management concepts and techniques to public policy/systems.

  • The student must also seek the consent of a faculty member to serve as the Chairperson of the student’s Dissertation Advisory Committee (DAC). 

  • The dissertation adviser and the student then together identify two other faculty members who consent to serve as members of the student’s Dissertation Advisory Committee (DAC). 

  • The student’s DAC must be finalized by the end of Term 2 of Year 3.

  • The DAC provides supervision and guidance to the student to ensure steady progress of his/her dissertation research. They advise the student in the development, and preparation of a dissertation proposal and proposal defence, subsequent thesis work and its completion, and preparation of a final draft of the final thesis.

Dissertation Proposal and Proposal Defense

  • The student must prepare, under the guidance of the DAC, a detailed proposal for research work on his/her selected topic of thesis research. 

  • This proposal must be presented, and defended, to the IIMB academic community by the student at a public seminar, called as the Proposal Defense. The Proposal Defense helps the student validate research progress and obtain feedback to strengthen his/her dissertation.

  • The preparation of the detailed dissertation proposal and its presentation to the IIMB academic community must be completed by the end of Term 2 of Year 4.

Dissertation Evaluation

  • After a successful Proposal Defense, the student proceeds to complete the dissertation work and prepare a draft of the final dissertation. 

  • The student has to submit a draft of the dissertation to the DAC by the end of Term 1 of Year 5. 

  • The DAC Chairperson and other members of the DAC provide feedback on the draft and advise the student on whether its quality, and level of completion, suffice for the student to work towards preparing a final draft that is ready for dissertation evaluation by external examiners.

  • External examiners evaluate the thesis on the basis of originality of contribution, whether it contains original ideas and related applications, and whether it is ready for a dissertation defense.

Dissertation Defense

  • The dissertation defense comprises a public seminar in which the student presents the dissertation and an oral examination, evaluated by all the DAC members and the external examiners who evaluated the dissertation.

  • The oral examination conducted by the DEC evaluates the acceptability of the dissertation for the award of degree of PhD. 

  • For a dissertation to be accepted, the members of DEC must categorically certify that the dissertation is of the standard for the award of the Doctoral Programme of IIM Bangalore.