DBA - Doctor of Business Administration draft
| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-19 | - |
| 2024-01-01 | 2023-10-15 |
| 2024-05-02 | 2024-01-31 |
Program Overview
Course Overview
Choose your own independent research area in business, management and/or leadership which will enable you to strengthen and sustain your organisation and those who work in it, and to enhance engagement with other key stakeholders.
Develop your current knowledge of and skills in critical thinking, strategy-development and problem-solving and become part of a peer community of senior leaders sharing experience, gaining insight, and learning new business ideas, models, strategies and approaches ready to take back and action in the workplace.
On this course you will...
Program Outline
What you will learn
Our Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) programme is based on a sustained, self-directed applied research project, supported by a collegial team of academic advisors, and reviewed and evaluated via seminars, workshops, and taught modules (encompassing formative and summative assessment), submission of a thesis and an oral defence.
Our DBA will be undertaken on a part-time basis and will typically take 4-5 years to complete.
Modules
A 1st or 2:1 honours degree, or Merit or Distinction Master’s degree, or equivalent in a relevant discipline from a recognised university in the UK or comparable university overseas.
By exception, applicants will be considered with additional evidence of substantial relevant professional experience instead of relevant academic qualifications. This will include business or organisational management or leadership, or related organisational consultancy, appropriate to the proposed research. Applicants will typically have a minimum of five years’ experience; however each application will be considered individually.
How to Apply
Doctoral study offers rare time and space for broader, meaningful engagement with the more challenging issues from your experience, both personally and in organisational life. It provides opportunity for extended conversations with the academic team in a friendly and supportive environment that will allow your deeper thinking, often not yet fully formed, to be explored and brought into a research journey.
This is a process that is sometimes deeply personal, and drawn from your real-world experience in practice. Many say that this is a unique time for maturing intellectually, and opening up, and particularly valuable when undertaken with fellow doctoral students who are also engaging with deeper enquiry.
To apply for the DBA Programme you must submit an application form and 2,000 word (± 10%) pre-interview essay to Research Student Admissions at: rsa@cumbria.ac.uk
The essay is an important part of the application process for the DBA and we strongly advise you to ensure that at a minimum it covers the following points:
