Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA)
The Bradford Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA)
Combine academic research, career development and enhanced management skills with a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA)
The Bradford DBA extends your significant managerial experiences, developing high-level research skills for commercial use in your organisation.
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The Bradford DBA develops the independent, business-critical research techniques that you and your company need to deliver globally significant and commercially valuable results.
The flexible, student-centred, part-time structure of the Bradford DBA allows you to complete specialised study, practice and assessment while maintaining a professional career, or to enahnce the efficiency and effectiveness of your public sector organisation anywhere in the world.
The Bradford DBA will help you:
- Boost your professional skills set and raise the research profile of your organsation.
- Engage in commercial research activity at the highest level
- Complete a world-class post-graduate business degree without interrupting your career.
- Tap into Bradford School of Management's years of experience as academics and global leaders in collaborative business partnership.
Start date for the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA)
How long does it take?
How much will it cost?
The total programme fees for those first enrolling in 2012/13 are £38,000. In each of years one and two, you pay £12,000 and in each of years three and four you pay £7,000. Students who have not completed at the end of year four pay the standard Home/EU postgraduate research full-time rate for each subsequent year.
Scholarships
For the academic year 2011/12, the School of Management is planning to offer 1 new scholarship per annum, to be awarded on merit to UK students studying a DBA, amounting to 50% of fees for years 1 and 2, with preference being given to public or third sector candidates.
Entry requirements for the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA)
You should:
- Normally have an MBA or equivalent qualification with 3-5 years management experience since completing your MBA, and should have an average performance at 50 per cent or above in all assessed units
- have at least five years' relevant management or professional experience
- be able to conduct your research in one or more organisations
- be proficient in English, if this is not your first language
- An alternative entry route exists for senior professionals without an MBA. Please enquire.
Where relevant to your proposed research project, you may be required to obtain a letter of support from your current employer.
Fluency in English
The programme is delivered and examined in English, so you must be able to prove your fluency in the language if it is not your mother tongue. Evidence of fluency includes residence in an Anglophone country for three or more years before starting the course, or an adequate grade in an approved test of English.