Business Administration

Overview

The Business Administration program at CASS Europe is a practical and research-based doctoral program in business and industry which is designed for mid-career executives who have already completed the MBA (or equivalent qualification) and are looking to further enhance their practical and theoretical knowledge in the field. 

As such it is a specialist qualification which is aimed at professional development in business and industry. It will help students apply research-based thinking to business ideas while deepening and broadening their ideas of business practice. 

The program provides students with innovative approaches for integrating academic knowledge with professional practice. Students will be actively encouraged to choose a topic for the DBA thesis that is related to their area of responsibility in an organization or an area they wish to focus upon in their career path.

Program goals 

The DBA program goals are as follows:

• Graduates will have knowledge of advanced theoretically grounded and methodologically sound research skills that provide the foundation for impactful, practice-focused research.

• Graduates will be able to disseminate evidence-based management practice through identifying and communicating to audiences within an academic and a practice-based settling.

• Graduates will have a mastery of quantitative and qualitative research methods specifically oriented to applied research.

• Each of the above-mentioned program goals are seen in terms of specific learning objectives which students become very familiar with as they become thoroughly immersed in the learning process.