18 PhD programmes in Business & Management in New Zealand

Learn how to shape and improve cities, towns, and regions. Develop the expertise to make our urban and rural environments more functional, sustainable, and appealing with the PhD in Urban and Regional Planning degree at the Victoria University of Wellington. 

Get advanced knowledge and skills in managing organisations, people, relationships and activities in a global environment with the PhD in International Business degree at Victoria University of Wellington.

Develop advanced theoretical knowledge and technical ability in finance, and gain the skills you need for independent research with a PhD in Finance degree at the Victoria University of Wellington. 

Become a leader in the growing Workplace Health and Safety sector by undertaking a specialist qualification PhD at Victoria University of Wellington. 

The tourism industry offers a world of opportunities. Studying the PhD in Tourism Management at Victoria University of Wellington will help you on your journey towards a senior role in this exciting, diverse, and growing industry.

Build on your Management knowledge and skills and gain a deeper insight into the latest management theories and research with the PhD in Management at Victoria University of Wellington.

At the end of your first year of Building Science you can choose to focus on either a PhD in Project Management or Sustainable Engineering Systems, or both at Victoria University of Wellington.

Get advanced knowledge and skills in the increasingly vital business area of PhD in Marketing at Victoria University of Wellington.

Take your knowledge and understanding of the central concepts of  PhD in Human Resource Management and Employment Relations at Victoria University of Wellington to the next level.

The United Nations defines a disaster as a disruption of social and community function, involving so many losses and destructive impacts that affected communities and regions are unable to cope using their own resources. The Cultural Studies course is offered at University of Canterbury.

The graduates Engineering Management programme at University of Canterbury apply integrated engineering and business knowledge in a technical environment.

Gain advanced theoretical and technical accounting knowledge and develop the skills for thorough independent PhD in Accounting research at the Victoria University of Wellington. 

The PhD in Commerce program from Victoria University of Wellington involves original and sustained research, mentored by an academic supervisor. It’s an opportunity to make new discoveries, address some of the big issues of our time, challenge yourself, and develop a mix of transferable and specialised skills.

Management at University of Otago is focused on leadership, communications, employment relations, human resource management, organisational behaviour, entrepreneurship, international management, strategy and innovation, operations management and organisational theory.

While studying Marketing at University of Otago, we also consider the consequences of consumption from social, ethical and environmental perspectives.

Finance at University of Otago is a decision-oriented discipline that is complex, challenging and dynamic. It’s about managing money and capital in the real world: making practical financial decisions that can add value to a business and the economy.

Online banking, StudyLink, KiwiSaver – all involve accounting concepts. Accounting is the art and science of measuring, interpreting and communicating financial information. We offer a phd degree in Accounting at the University of Otago. 

The degree of Doctor of Business Administration from University of Otago is awarded on the basis of submission of a thesis and the completion of coursework consisting of six papers. The coursework is an integral and constitutive part of the thesis research of the degree.