Overview
An internationally established highest level qualification, the course enables you to earn the title of Doctor without putting your career on hold.
The Doctor of Business Administration course at Birmingham City University will enhance your professional capabilities, credibility and standing, and you will contribute to practice through action research.
What's covered in this course?
- The DBA is designed to help you apply action research-based thinking to ideas in practice and work, or practice based problems whilst deepening and broadening your understanding of application to professional practice.
- You will also develop essential research skills which will enable you to play a leading role in strategic and operational development, policy formation and evaluation in practice.
- Our DBA is aimed at enhancing the level of professional capabilities and credibility of practising professionals, and the research undertaken on the course is focused on contributing to, and transforming, practice.
- The course combines workshops, research based activities and a substantial research enquiry thesis.
Programme Structure
Research:
- The DBA provides a framework for practice or work based research, where your professional environment is also the core of your research environment and network. This requires commitment to independently driven professional environment research.
- You choose an issue of action research related to an area of practice. This could be in relation to your company, sector, industry, professional practice, professional body etc.
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 48 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Business Administration View 19 other PhDs in Business Administration in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
- To join the DBA programme, you must have completed an MA, MSc or MBA degree in a particular area of business-related professional practice and have at least five years related professional practice experience, as well as being employed in the professional capacity that you propose to study.
- You must have the formal agreement and active co-operation of the organisation where the DBA studies are to take place.
- A full research proposal is not required as you will build this during the first year. We do however need to know that you have a level of clarity on what your research is and how you would access the research opportunity. Therefore you need to initially develop your outline research concept.
Tuition Fee
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National
7350 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 7350 GBP per year during 48 months.
- International fees: to be confirmed
Funding
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