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It is required for student's registration to obtain Master's degree in addition to the conditions contained in Article (5) that:

1. Student must have obtained a bachelor's degree in Commerce in a discipline with a grade of (C+) at least or equivalent from one of the universities or institutes recognized by the Supreme Council of Universities.

2. Faculty Board can accept student's registration who has obtained a Bachelor's degree in a different specialization up on a proposal from Department Board after passing a number of supplementary courses of Bachelor's level or higher which the department considers important. This should be in such a manner that the number of those courses does not exceed four courses. In Case of the supplementary courses are more than four courses, the student must study a qualifying year to success in these courses as a condition to register for master's courses. Those courses are not counted for the student in program hours.

 3. After student had passed the courses successfully with an average grade CGPA of at least C+ -or the student shall register in additional courses or repeat some courses to improve the average grade CGPA, student submit a request to register for thesis subject.

4. Student displays research plan in a seminar to the Department Board in a seminar before applying for thesis subject registration.

5. Obtaining the International Computer Driving License ICDL and passing the level of foreign language determined by faculty board are two conditions to be enrolled in Master's program.

6. After the students had succeeded in all courses of the degree with a cumulative grades average CGPA of at least C+ and thesis completion, the thesis validity report is submitted to Department Board.

7. The Master Degree is conferred to students who passed discussion of their scientific thesis and the cumulative grade points average CGPA is not marked in the master's certificate.

 

Hours of study for the program:

In order for the student to obtain a master's degree, he must study 30 credit hours in addition to 6 credit hours for the thesis.

Credit hours list for study courses as following:

* 9 credit hours as general basic courses on the level of the faculty.

* 12 credit hours as general courses on the level of the department.

Supervisory Authority:

1. Up on a proposal of department board, Faculty Board approves the formation committee supervising on the student registered for a master's degree in accordance with the research plan in the department. Committee is formed of professors or professor assistants. The lecture can participate in the supervision, so as the number of supervisors does not exceed three members and the main supervisor must be from the university.

2. It is allowed that one of the professionals who have Ph.D. or experience in the specialization field can join supervision committee after Faculty Board approval.

3. In case of travelling of any supervisor who has less than one year on supervision so Faculty Board can remove his name from the Supervisory Committee on the proposal of the Department Board.

4. In case of travelling of the supervisor after one year of registration so he should submit a scientific report on student progress during supervision period on the thesis and to be signed by the other supervisors (if any) with his right to continue supervision and it is allowable that the internal supervisors validity report is sufficient.

5. The supervisors on thesis write periodical reports on student progress every six months from the date of registration for research plan and are signed by the Supervisory Committee combined. In case of committee members' opinions dissimilarity, the scientific department studies the situation and takes the proper decision. Reports are approved by the department board and Graduate Studies Committee in the faculty and the student is notified through graduate management with the Supervision Committee opinion on the extent of his progress in the thesis (To continue registration or warning the student with thesis registration cancelling).

6. Student's registration is canceled if three periodic reports were issued stating that his performance is not satisfactory, after sending him three written warnings or if  student scientific dishonesty was certainty approved up on a report from the supervisor(supervisors) approved  by Department Board and then Faculty Board.

The jury:

After preparing the thesis, the Supervisory Committee submits with the following to the relevant department board in preparation of submission to the Faculty Board:

1. Report on thesis validity to discussion indicating what he the researcher had done, and is signed by all supervisors. Also supervisory committee introduces a proposal to form the judging panel for the thesis. In case of travelling any supervisor, he sends letter or fax within two weeks stating his agreement on what came in the validity report. If there is no reply asking him again to send the report, and in the absence of his agreement within two weeks on the validity report this is considered as an agreement.

 2. Up on the proposal of the relevant Department Board, the Faculty Board forms the judging panel on the thesis of three members, one of them is thesis supervisor and the other two members are from professors and professor assistants in universities and committee head is the oldest professors and. In case of multiple supervisors they can involve in the committee but have one vote. It is allowable that the both members or one of them are of the former professors or those who in their scientific level of specialists provided that at least one from outside the faculty. Judging panel formation is approved of the Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research.

3. Discussion can be accomplished in the presence of a representative of the Supervisory Committee in the jury if other supervisors can not attend.

4. If the thesis did not discussed within the three months from the date of university approval to form the jury, committee approval is repeated with the same members again and in case of that the committee did not set committee formation is changed with another committee.

 5. The jury can recommend giving thesis back to the researcher to complete any lack committee see and to submit a collective report to the related department to recommend granting an extra period to complete its observations within six months as maximum from the date of the discussion provided the jury or who authorized shall agree to approve the thesis.

General compulsory courses for master's programs at faculty level:

Credit hours

Course name

Course code

No.

3

Research Methods

0306601

1

3

Statistical and mathematical methods

0306602

2

3

Economic theory

0303602

3

 

Compulsory courses on the level of department:

Credit hours

Course name

Course code

No.

3

Statistical theory

0306603

1

3

Statistical inference

0306604

2

3

Operation Research (1)

0306612

3

3

Advanced Econometrics (1)

0306608

4

Elective courses:

Credit hours

Course name

Course code

No.

3

Linear models (2)

0306606

1

3

Non parametric statistical methods

0306609

2

3

Time Series (1)

0306611

3

3

Linear models (1)

0306605

4

3

Strong statistics (1)

0306613

5

3

Generalized linear models

0306607

6

3

Ordinal statistics

0306610

7

3

Course from outside the department or faculty

 

8