MBA transcripts - submit or not for PhD in Humanities?

[blaisec]

HI,

I'm applying for admission to a PhD in the Humanities (Interdisciplinary studies: Religion/Philosophy/English Lit). During my long and varied academic career, I've collected a MBA in Information Sciences (along with an MA in English Lit).

Question: do you think I should submit my business school transcripts when applying for the PhD program. I did well in business school, so that isn't the issue. Just wondering if it's necessary.

[fadeindreams]

Some schools may consider your application incomplete if your MBA transcript is not present and the MBA has been referenced somewhere else on your application (say on your MA transcript). Some may even consider you academically dishonest if they admit you only to find out about your MBA later. Why avoid submitting it anyway?

[fuzzylogician]

Usually you are required to submit transcripts for all academic courses you've ever taken, regardless of whether or not they are relevant to your current field of study. So the default would be to send everything everywhere. Certainly if you got good grades, it's in your interest to do so anyway. For reasons of costs, some people inquire into not submitting irrelevant transcripts (and some schools will tell you they don't care about them anyway), so you could look into that. You'd need to contact individual departments and ask about their policies.