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The Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration serves as the overarching degree program in the College of Business, designed to cultivate and educate future social scientists specializing in Management, Marketing, Finance, Information Systems, and Accounting. This doctoral program's essential focus lies in developing scholars capable of formulating and examining theories that broaden our understanding while offering real-world applications for societal benefit.
The Business Administration Ph.D. with a Management specialization equips emerging social scientists with core competencies in organizational behavior, strategic management, entrepreneurship, decision-making processes, and global business. Through rigorous training in research methodologies and statistical analysis, students gain the tools to develop and validate theories while conducting surveys, experiments, and database studies. This education produces organizational science specialists prepared for careers in both academic and corporate settings.
Graduates will:
acquire theoretical, empirical, and quantitative expertise to investigate significant organizational, leadership, and management challenges while conducting original research in laboratory and real-world environments,
develop the analytical skills to assess the credibility of research across academic, corporate, and mainstream sources,
master both verbal and written communication techniques to effectively share research outcomes with scholarly and general audiences,
gain the pedagogical knowledge to excel as university-level educators,
cultivate interpersonal and teamwork abilities for conducting collaborative, cross-disciplinary research projects,
learn to formulate research-driven inquiries and prepare competitive grant proposals for external funding opportunities,
understand professional expectations, cultural norms, and ethical standards required of doctoral-level practitioners.
Students are admitted based upon a holistic review of prior degrees, grade point averages, test scores (GMAT or GRE), and most importantly passion for research and alignment with faculty research streams.
The TOEFL is required of international students: minimum score of 550 (paper), or 79 (Internet-based version), or 6.5 on the IELTS (must be academic version) test.
Application Deadlines: Feb 1 (Fall)