Program Overview

NUS Business School PhD Programme

The NUS Business School PhD Programme is designed to prepare individuals for a career as a professor in a business school. Business academics engage in three main activities: research, teaching, and academic service. Some professors in business schools also engage in consulting assignments with companies. A career as a business school professor is intellectually stimulating, flexible, and financially rewarding.

Programme Overview

A PhD in Management prepares an individual to become a professor in a business school. The programme focuses on research, teaching, and academic service, with some professors also engaging in consulting assignments.

Testimonials

• Siddarth Natarajan, PhD Student, Department of Strategy and Policy: I applied to NUS because of its reputation for quality research and curriculum. On a typical day as an accounting PhD student, I read research, work on data, and discuss my studies with schoolmates and professors. What I enjoy the most as a PhD student here is the highly collaborative environment with my professors and peers – they provide great insights to my work.
• Ma Jiameng, Department of Accounting: The most impressive aspect of NUS Business School is its culture of collaboration among faculty members. Through frequent interaction with them, I learned invaluable lessons regarding research methods and philosophies. By interacting with the invited scholars, I obtained fruitful feedback on my research projects. Overall, NUS has provided a conducive environment for me to develop as a researcher.
• Choi Dongwon, Department of Management & Organisation: I’m one of the early batch of PhD graduates from NUS Business School. In a PhD programme, what’s important is the research environment, and the academic and support staff involved. In the NUS Business School programme, these boxes are often ticked and well resourced.
• Professor Ang Siah Hwee, The Bank of New Zealand Chair in Business in Asia, School of Marketing & International Business, Victoria University of Wellington:

About NUS Business School

• Dean’s Message
• Why Study with Us?
• Rankings
• Accreditations
• Vision & Mission
• Timeline & History

Study Options

• The NUS BBA
• The NUS Msc
• The NUS MBA
• The NUS Executive MBA
• UCLA-NUS MBA
• The NUS Executive MBA (Chinese)
• PhD
• Executive Education

Departments

• Accounting
• Analytics & Operations
• Finance
• Management & Organisation
• Marketing
• Real Estate
• Strategy & Policy

Research Centres

• Business Analytics Centre
• Centre for Governance & Sustainability (CGS)
• Centre for Investor Protection (CIP)