THE REGULATION ON THESIS IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION

THE BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM

Ho Chi Minh City, 27 September 2013

1. OVERVIEW ABOUT THESIS

Graduation thesis or course project reflects student's knowledge, skill and attitude on specialized knowledge that is transformed into professional and job skills. The thesis must strictly abide by the academic ethics. The thesis also reflects the correlation between the curriculum and the expected learning outcomes. That correlation shows that students not only apply what they learned in a particular context, but also connect creative ideas, design, and operation into the realities.

The thesis is conducted in the final semester after the students have completed the internship. The process of doing the thesis must abide by the general regulations of the University of Economics and Law, and the Faculty of Business Administration. Students can choose the thesis topic and instructor by themselves or Faculty will assign instructors for them. Some practical topics may include visiting lecturers outside the school. Usually, Students will spend a part of the time to contact enterprises or organizations for collecting data or survey. And remaining time, students have to do complete under instructors' guidance. Students must take thesis defense in front of thesis assessment board which is established by the Rector of the University of Economics and Law. 

2. THE PROCESS OF GRADUATION THESIS IMPLEMENTATION.

• The Faculty of Business Administration publishes the list of faculty members and visiting lecturers, corresponding to their courses. The Faculty also publishes the maximum number of students that each lecturer will undertake.;
• For eligible students to do the thesis, Faculty will base on students' registration with instructor's consent and in according with the Faculty's regulations to assign instructors for students.;
• Student complete the graduation thesis under the lecturer’s guidance during the final semester;
• Thesis-writing students don’t have to take substitutive courses and the time for writing thesis coincides with the internship time of not thesis-writing students;
• Instructors write clearly comments, assessments, and score for student’s thesis;
• Thesis will be reviewed by a lecturer assigned by Faculty;
• Student will take defense in front of committee members
• The thesis score is the average score from 5 committee members: instructors, reviewer, and other 3 members of thesis committee members;
• Thesis equivalents to a 10-credits course.

3. REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION THESIS’S CONTENT

Graduation thesis is a business project or a scientific research. The graduation thesis must be students’ own research. The thesis must show the theoretical and practical knowledge in business administration and problem-solving methods. The thesis results must solve a problem that they have proposed by using scientific knowledge and appropriate research methods acquired during the program.

The thesis is a completed research which may be one of two types: business project, or repetitive academic research aimed at solving problems in the field of business administration.

The thesis must address and solve a problem, as well as using research method to collect information for the problem identification and solving. The objective of the thesis aims to solve practical problems of organizations. Students use both knowledges from textbooks and from qualitative and quantitative researches on specialised journals to fulfill the specific scope of research.

The thesis in the form of repetitive academic research is similar to a the scientific research and the research process is well designed.  Students can apply any appropriate research methods in thesis including inductive or deductive method, discussing or exploring methods, qualitative or quantitative method, or combined method.

The basic methodology for implementing repetitive academic research is students must select an academic research model (original model has been published in specialized journals) as their the research’s foundation. On that basis, qualitative research is combined to explore the practical problems of enterprises in Vietnam in the specific context of research. Students should select one of specific field of Business Administration (Marketing, Finance, Human Resource, Production, Cost, Profit and so on) to do the thesis.

The core issues of implementing repetitive academic research is students must choose appropriate research method (qualitative, quantitative or both) to examine the proposed research model in the reality 

4. PRESENTATION FORMAT OF THESIS

Graduation thesis should not exceed fifty pages with A4 size, and use Line Spcing 1.5

The color of cover page is designated as  BLUE.

The detailed requirements for the presentation format of the thesis, the student can refer in Guide Book of presentation format of internship report and thesis.

5. THESIS ASSESSMENT

For the content, students are required to describe, analyze and assess more comprehensively and deeply an activity, a part, or the entire business activity of the enterprise. Students should propose solutions or recommendation to improve or increase the efficiency of the enterprise.

For methodology, students must apply one of the tools of research methodology to solve a specific problem in business. This is the difference between a thesis and graduation internship report.

Thesis score on a scale of 10, is rounded to 0.5. Thesis score is the average score of 3 committee members, reviewer, and proposed instructor. Criteria for thesis evaluation is specified in the scorecard, including 4 items in the table below:

Table 1: SCORE STRUCTURE FOR THESIS ASSESSMENT

Rubric for thesis assessment is described in the table 2 below.

Table 2: Rubric for thesis assessment (on a scale 1-10)

Dean of Faculty of Business Administration

                                                                    PHẠM ĐỨC CHÍNH