MBA Forms

GSO1 Advancement to Candidacy

GSO2 Completion of Requirements

Application for Award of Master's Degree

You can locate this form in the department office, Stevenson 2042 or in Admissions and Records, Salazar 2nd floor. This form does not require any signatures or fees. Turn the completed form into Admissions and Records. Filing deadlines can be found at www.sonoma.edu/ar/graduation/

GSO1 Instructions

M.B.A. students file the Advancement to Candidacy form (GSO1) prior to starting the Culminating Project. Students doing the culminating Project in their capstone course will be advised by their instructor. Students doing an individual project must file the GSO1 form prior to enrolling in BUS 599 Master's Degree Directed Research (a restricted class). Fill out the form and get the signatures of your committee members and the MBA Coordinator. When the form is complete, take it to the School of Business and Economics office in Stevenson 2042. If you are doing an individual project you will be added to the BUS 599 permission screen so that you can register for the class. All this must be done before the deadline to add a class. If you are doing an individual project, you might find it advantageous to complete the form before the end of the previous semester so that it can be filed in a timely manner.

GSO2 Instructions

The GSO2 form is to be filled out and taken to the defense of your culminating project. After a successful defense your Chair will sign the form. Turn it in to the MBA Coordinator who will complete the process. This is not a graduation application. To graduate, you must also fill out a graduate application (see above) usually a year before your graduation date.

When filling our the GSO2 do not list any foundation courses you had to take. This would include ECON 501 or ECON 201 and ECON 201B; BUS501 or 230A and 230B; BUS 504 or BUS 344; BUS 507 or BUS 370; BUS 506 or BUS 360; and finally BUS 508 or BUS 211 or acceptable equivalents of the courses listed.

List Required and Elective courses taken in numerical order or by semester taken with the appropriate grade. Include courses that you are currently taking in which no grade is yet assigned, but leave the grade column blank for these courses. These courses should be at the end of the course list. Do not include any BUS 578's that you have taken.

Include the units for all Required and Elective courses and calculate the total which should be between 30 and 32 units.

Last modified 03.28.2007 . Tracy Navas