Admission Requirements
Persons shall be eligible to be admitted to study for a Doctor of Philosophy in Accounting programme if they have:
✅ A Master’s degree in Accounting or a relevant field with a research component from the University of Fiji with GPA of 3.0 or above;
✅ A qualification obtained from another tertiary institution deemed by the Senate or Academic Committee to be equivalent to the requirements set out in (1) above
Note: Students with Master’s by Coursework without any research experience are required to undertake a postgraduate advanced research methods course if they have not completed and are also required to do the ACC410 Research Paper course. Furthermore, candidates who have Master by Coursework but have proven or demonstrated research experience in research projects or have peer-reviewed publications in scholarly indexed and/or ranked journals may proceed for direct entry in the PhD programme as in case of students who have done a thesis.
