The overall goal of the College of Management’s PhD in Business Administration Program is to recruit talented students; educate, train and mentor them in a supportive research environment with the aid of faculty to generate and publish ground-breaking research; present their research in impactful ways; and place them in peer and aspirant research institutions nationally and internationally.

Our faculty is committed to educating future scholars who aspire to become leaders in business and management research.  Receiving a PhD degree is a demanding and challenging experience that requires discipline, intense work, and personal commitment. Our students are hard-working individuals with solid intellectual skills to carry forward a fruitful research agenda that tackles complex business and management problems. The PhD program recruits those who are most likely to immerse themselves into the research environment and desire to understand and inform the changing business world for years to come. PhD students are a key component of the College’s goal to be a premier center of business research.

As members of the College’s and Department’s academic community, PhD students are expected to fully participate in the scholarly activities of the department, including seminar series and visiting scholar presentations.

Fellowship

Full-time doctoral students are eligible for fellowships to assist with tuition, fees charges, and living expenses.  Each full-time doctoral student on fellowship, who remains in good standing, will receive an annual stipend of $25,000, renewable for the first three years of study.   Fellowship students will also receive a tuition waiver for their required coursework.   Several administrative fees will also be covered by the fee waiver.

To continue to qualify for financial aid and teaching fellowships, students must be in good academic standing, with GPA of at least 3.0, as well as make satisfactory progress towards completion of the PhD dissertation.

Fellowship Obligations (Teaching, required time on campus, etc)

Students with fellowships are required to fulfill their fellowship obligations over a 12 month timeframe (annually, September through August).   In the first two years of the program, each student will work as a research assistant under faculty supervision.   The time commitment associated with the doctoral research assistantship should be equivalent to approximately 18 hours per week (if agreed upon by your faculty mentor, this time commitment may be lower in your first semester).  Starting in the third year each student will commence teaching as the instructor of record in CM courses.

Funding is not guaranteed beyond the third year, although it may be possible to continue to teach to partially cover expenses or to provide research assistance using external grant support.