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SCHOOL OF COMMERCE

THE GRADUATE YEAR

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION. To the graduate year of this School
may be admitted students who hold the baccalaureate degree from this or
other colleges and universities of good standing and whose personalities,
character, and undergraduate records give promise of their ability suc-
cessfully to meet the requirements outlined below and the demands of the
business world for trained specialists and leaders. Applications for admis-
sion must be made in writing upon forms supplied by the Graduate Schoel
of the University.

UNDERGRADUATE PREREQUISITES. Graduate students who, in their un-
dergraduate courses, have not substantially completed the major require-
ments described above must complete them either before entering upon
the course of study outlined below or in connection with it. For such
students more than two semesters of residence will be required for the
completion of the course, how much more depending upon the number of
credits earned during their undergraduate years toward the undergraduate
major described above.

COURSE OF STUDY AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS. The work of the grad-
uate year will center in research seminars in the fields of accounting and
statistics, marketing, public utilities, finance, and management, subject to
the following regulations:

(1) Each student must select one of the foregoing as his field of
specialization.

(2) His work for the year will be directed by the professor in charge
of the field selected, who will arrange with him a program which shall
include: (a) at least one of the research seminars conducted in the field
selected; (b) other courses of graduate grade or seminars offered in the
field, or assigned readings and papers to be done under his guidance outside
of formal courses, or a combination of courses, readings, and papers which.
together with his work in the seminar, will occupy not less than one-third
nor more than one-half of his time; and (c) courses of graduate grade
offered in the other fields mentioned above or in the Department of Eco-
nomics outside of these fields, or a combination of the two sufficient, to-
gether with the credits granted for the work done under the heads (a) and
(b), to aggregate not less than 20 credits for the year.

(3) The quality of the student’s work for the year will be tested by a
thesis or seminary topic on some subject connected with his field of special-
ization and by an examination at the close of the vear covering the prin-
ciples of economics, statistics and the field of specialization.

(4) Students who successfully pass the tests mentioned under (3) will
receive the degree of Master of Arts in Commerce.