University of South Carolina
Moore School of Business
Overview
Chartered in 1801 as South Carolina College, the University of South Carolina was the first university to be supported continuously by annual state appropriations. The University of South Carolina has grown and changed dramatically over the years. Today, the University has eight campuses, serving the entire state, with a total enrollment of 38,000. Of these, more than 26,000 students are on the 242-acre Columbia campus, some 3,300 of whom are enrolled in the Darla Moore School of Business. The University's efforts in the international area, particularly important to the state's development of foreign trade and investment continues to expand. The Darla Moore School of Business has developed an outstanding reputation for global management education.
The Community
The Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina is located in Columbia, South Carolina, a metropolitan area of approximately 500,000 people. The Columbia community offers a variety of cultural and recreational amenities, including city and state parks, the acclaimed Riverbanks Zoo and Botanical Gardens, the Koger Center for the Arts, the S.C. State Museum, lovely antebellum homes, and 50,000-acre Lake Murray. Ocean resorts, historic cities, the Blue Ridge Parkway, beautiful gardens, public beaches, golf courses, state parks, lakes and mountains provide bountiful recreational opportunities within a few hours driving time from Columbia. Columbia is served by a major airport, and is within easy driving distance to Atlanta, Charlotte, Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Asheville and Raleigh/Durham.
Programs of Study and Degree Requirements
The Moore School of Business, accredited by the AACSB- The International Association for Management Education, offers programs of study leading to the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in business administration and economics, Master of International Business Studies (M.I.B.S.), International Master of Business Administration (I.M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Accountancy (M.Acc.), Master of Taxation (M.Tax.), Master of Human Resources (M.H.R.), Master of Arts in Economics (MA in Econ.), and Master of Science in Business Administration (M.S.B.A.). Joint-degree programs with the Law School are available. The program leading to the Ph.D. degree in business administration is designed for students of outstanding ability who wish to do advanced work in preparation for careers in university teaching and research, business, and government. Areas of concentration in the School's graduate programs are accounting, economics, finance, human relations, international business, international finance, management information systems, marketing, operations research, organizational behavior, probability and statistics, operations management, and strategic management/business policy. The School's innovative approaches to preparing students for the global marketplace have earned it an international recognition. Such innovation is essential for business students who must operate in a world of few boundaries and constant change.
Facilities and Resources
The modern nine-story facility that houses the Moore School of Business has one floor devoted to a computer and statistics center and one floor devoted to a library for business administration. Facilities also include case rooms, two television studio classrooms, and a behavioral learning laboratory. The School offers students access to more than 200 computer terminals. The Division of Information Resources operates a large open-systems network comprising multiple Novell and UNIX servers with 650 clients and 32 billion characters of online storage. The division also has access to the University's central computer facility, which features an IBM 3081 D24 using MVS/XA for batch support and an IBM 3081 D24 using VM/CMS for interactive support. The University's main library, which can seat 2,500 users at one time, houses more than 6.3 million volumes, microform entries, manuscripts, and periodicals. The Elliott White Springs Library in the Darla Moore School of Business houses a collection of non-circulating financial, labor, and tax services, corporation annual reports, textbooks, periodicals and a circulating collection of books. Multiple business indexes are available on CD ROM and include ABI Inform, Compact Disclosure, Business Periodicals Ondisc, and the Business Collection which contains a subject index and full texts of 500 major business journals. The Division of Research coordinates the research programs of the Darla Moore School of Business and provides opportunities for graduate students to work with faculty on research projects.
Expenses and Aid
Fees vary depending on the program and, in some cases, the number of credit hours taken. The I.M.B.A. program is fee-based for the entire program. The I.M.B.A. Language and Global Tracks are $32,000 for South Carolina residents and $47,000 for nonresidents. The I.M.B.A. Vienna Program is $30,000 for both resident and nonresident students. The M.Acc. is $337 per credit hour for in-state students and $565 per credit hour for nonresidents. The M.H.R. is $425 per credit hour for South Carolina residents and $610 per credit hour for nonresident students. The M.A.Econ. is $425 per credit hour for in-state students and $610 per credit hour for nonresident students. The P.M.B.A. is $410 per credit hour for South Carolina residents and $450 per credit hour for nonresidents. The Ph.D. programs are tuition-based programs. Tuition and fees are set by the Board of Trustees and are subject to change.
Housing
A number of housing units for single and married students are available on campus. Many students choose to rent houses and apartments in the Columbia metropolitan area; rents range from $500 to $800 per month.
Financial Aid
A variety of fellowships and assistantships are available. For masters students financial aid awards up to $15,000 per year are available. For doctoral students the yearly stipend is $12,500.
How to Apply / Application
The Moore School of Business encourages application of all qualified persons interested in graduate study in business administration and economics. All applicants must submit official transcripts from all colleges and universities previously attended. All applicants (except M.A. in Economics, M.S. in Business Administration, and Ph.D. applicants) must submit test scores from the GMAT. M.S. in Business Administration, M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics applicants may submit GRE or GMAT scores. Each applicant is required to submit two letters of recommendation. An applicant's potential for a professional business career is also assessed through careful review of experiences and accomplishments in full-time and part-time work settings, in military service, and in extracurricular activities.
Who to Contact
For more information, contact:
Graduate Admissions
Moore School of Business
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Tel: (803) 777-4346
Fax: (803) 777-0414
E-mail: gradadmit@darla.badm.sc.edu
The Faculty and Major Research Interests
Accounting
Garnett F. Beazley Jr., Ph.D. Pittsburgh, 1963. Eugene G. Chewning, Ph.D., South Carolina, 1984. Maribeth Coller, Ph.D. Indiana, 1991. Frank DeZoort, Ph.D., Alabama, 1995. Timothy S. Doupnik, Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983. James B. Edwards, Ph.D., Georgia, 1973. Adrian M. Harrell, Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 1975. Paul D. Harrison, Ph.D., Arizona State, 1982. Robert A. Leitch, Ph.D., Tennessee, 1973. Gary A. Luoma, D.B.A., Washington (St. Louis), 1966. Robert J. Rolfe, Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1983. Earl A. Spiller, Jr., Ph.D., Michigan, 1960. Caroline D. Strobel, Ph.D., Georgia, 1978. Brad M. Tuttle, Ph.D., Arizona State, 1991. Richard A. White, Ph.D., Arizona State, 1981.
Banking, Financial Management, Insurance, and Real Estate
LeRoy D. Brooks, Ph.D., Michigan State, 1971. Helen I. Doerpinghaus, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1989. Scott E. Harrington, Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1979. Timothy W. Koch, Ph.D., Purdue, 1976. Steven V. Mann, Ph.D., Nebraska, 1987. William T. Moore, Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 1982. Gregory R. Niehaus, Ph.D., Washington (St. Louis), 1985. Eric A. Powers, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. S. Travis Pritchett, D.B.A., Indiana, 1969. Rodney L. Roenfeldt, D.B.A., Indiana, 1972. Ronald C. Rogers, Ph.D., Ohio State, 1982.
Economics
John T. Addison, Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1971. McKinley L. Blackburn, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1987. Janice Boucher Breuer, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1987. Robert J. Carlsson, Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1964. Henry W. Chappell, Ph.D., Yale University, 1979. Robert W. Clower, Doctor of Letters, Oxford University, 1978. Elchanan Cohn, Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1968. Glenn W. Harrison, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1982. Eric Johnson, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1997. B.F. Kiker, Ph.D., Tulane University, 1965. Susan K. Laury, Ph.D., Indiana University, 1996. Pierce Liles, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1972. Randolph C. Martin, Ph.D., Washington University, 1971. John H. McDermott, Ph.D., Brown University, 1979. Melayne M. McInnes, Ph.D., Yale University, 1997. William H. Phillips, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980. Elisabet E. Rutstrom, Ph.D., Stockholm School of Economics, 1990. Ronald P. Wilder, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1969. Doug P. Woodward, Ph.D., University of Texas, 1986.
International Business
Jeffrey S. Arpan, D.B.A., Indiana, 1971. W. Randolph Folks, D.B.A., Harvard, 1970. Tatiana D. Kostova, Ph.D., Minnesota, 1996. James A. Kuhlman, Ph.D., Northwestern, 1971. Chun-Yau Kwok, Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 1984. R. Bruce Money, Ph.D., California, Irvine, 1995. Douglas W. Nigh, Ph.D., UCLA, 1981. Kendall Roth, Ph.D., South Carolina, 1986. Martin A. Roth, Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1990.
Management
Alan D. Bauerschmidt, Ph.D., Florida, 1968. Daniel C. Feldman, Ph.D., Yale, 1976. Brian S. Klass, Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison, 1987. M. Audrey Korsgaard, Ph.D., NYU, 1990. Shirley Kuiper, Ed.D., Indiana, 1976. John E. Logan, Ph.D., Columbia, 1969. Bruce M. Meglino, Ph.D., Massachusetts, 1973. Elizabeth Ravlin, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 1986. Richard B. Robinson Jr., Ph.D., Georgia, 1980. William R. Sandberg, Ph.D., Georgia, 1984. Harry Sapienza, Ph.D., Maryland, 1989. David M. Schweiger, D.B.A., Maryland, 1980. Hoyt N. Wheeler, Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison, 1974.
Management Science
Joan Donohue, Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 1988. Kirk D. Fiedler, Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1991. Timothy D. Fry, Ph.D., Georgia, 1984. J. Stanley Fryer, D.B.A., Indiana, 1971. Varun Grover, Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1990. Edgar P. Hickman, Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1958. Kirk R. Karwan, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 1979. William J. Kettinger, Ph.D., South Carolina, 1992. Manoj K. Malhotra, Ph.D., Ohio State, 1990. Robert E. Markland, D.B.A., Washington (St. Louis) 1969. Dennis H. Oberhelman, Ph.D., Purdue, 1978. Patrick R. Philipoom, Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 1986. Gary R. Reeves, D.S., Washington (St. Louis), 1973. J. Michael Ryan, Ph.D., Missouri-Columbia, 1972. David L. Shrock, D.B.A., Indiana, 1973. Daniel C. Steele, Ph.D., Iowa, 1992. James R. Sweigart, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 1976. James T.C. Teng, Ph.D., Minnesota, 1980. Kathleen M. Whitcomb, Ph.D., Minnesota, 1989.
Marketing
William O. Bearden, Ph.D., South Carolina, 1975. James F. Kane, D.B.A., Washington (St. Louis), 1964. Thomas J.Madden, Ph.D., Massachusetts, 1982. Randall L. Rose, Ph.D., Ohio State, 1986. Subhash Sharma, Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 1978. Terence A. Shimp, D.B.A., Maryland, 1974. F. Kelly Shuptrine, Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 1971. Jesse E. Teel, Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1976. John E. Willenborg, Ph.D., Washington (St. Louis), 1969. Stacy L. Wood, Ph.D., University of Florida, 1998.