沃顿商学院会计学博士专业简介：

　　WhArton's Ph.D. program in Accountingtrains students to be successful academic researchers. To this end, the programis designed to provide students with opportunities to learn to develop theirown research ideas and to learn to implement APpropriate research methods.Students learn these skills in the classroom, but a distinct feature of ourprogram is that students also learn these skills through mentorinGRElationships with faculty members that provide "on-the-job"training. When a student completes the program, he or she will have adissertation and other publishable research in proGREss that can crediblycommunicate to the academic community the student's skills and potential forfuture success as a researcher.

沃顿商学院会计学博士专业课程安排：

　　Years 1 and 2: Students take doctoral level Accounting research seminars anddoctoral level courses in Economics, Finance, Statistics, and Mathematics. Seecourse inforMATion below.

　　Summer research: Students write research pAPers in the summers following theirfirst and second years in the program. The first year summer pAPer provides anopportunity to learn research skills outside of the classroom experience.Students interACT with a faculty member in directed research in a field inwhich the student has an interest. The second year summer pAPer builds afounDATion for the dissertation.

　　Comprehensive exam: Students take the major field exam in Accounting in the summerfollowing the second year of the program. After successful completion of coursework,research pAPers during the summers following the first and second years, andthe comprehensive exam, a student can APply to be admitted to candidacy.CandiDATes then propose and defend a dissertation.