Program Overview
Introduction to the Fox School of Business PhD Programs
The Fox School of Business at Temple University offers a range of PhD programs designed to train outstanding scholars who advance the state of their fields through research and teaching. The PhD program is a full-time, five-year program for hard-working individuals with exceptional intellectual skills who aim to tackle complex business problems.
Why the Fox PhD
The Fox School of Business PhD program combines top research faculty with small class sizes and a cutting-edge curriculum to help students succeed in today's academic world. Students have the opportunity to build their research portfolio, present work at international conferences, and meet with top researchers from around the world as they develop their network.
Culture of Mentoring
The Fox School formally encourages a culture of mentoring where faculty collaborate with students on joint endeavors. Fox students benefit from the high-quality research produced by their mentors, while the faculty benefit from these students' fresh ideas. This mentoring is intended to support PhD students as they adapt to the rigors of academic life and successful scholarship.
Program Overview
The Fox School's PhD program offers a degree in Business Administration, encompassing ten concentrations; a degree in Decision Neuroscience, and a degree in Statistics. Although tailored to meet the individual demands of field specialization, each program utilizes a similar structure. This includes coursework for approximately two and a half years, required research papers, screening examinations, and a dissertation. The expected time for degree completion is five years.
Disciplines
The Fox School of Business offers PhD concentrations in the following areas:
- Business Administration: Accounting
- Business Administration: Finance
- Business Administration: Human Resource Management / Organizational Behavior (HRM/OB)
- Business Administration: International Business (IB)
- Business Administration: Management Information Systems (MIS)
- Business Administration: Marketing
- Business Administration: Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM)
- Business Administration: Risk Management and Insurance (RMI)
- Business Administration: Strategic Management (SGM)
- Business Administration: Tourism and Sport
- Statistics
- Decision Neuroscience PhD
Business Administration: Accounting
The PhD concentration in Accounting produces high-caliber doctoral graduates who are ready to assume faculty responsibilities in accounting and related departments at major research universities. Candidates collaborate with full-time faculty members who hold doctorates from top business schools as they prepare for careers in research and teaching at leading academic institutions.
Business Administration: Finance
The PhD concentration in Finance prepares students for academic positions through rigorous training in scholarship and university-level teaching. Our research-active faculty hold doctorate degrees from top business schools. Their areas of research expertise include corporate finance, asset pricing, and financial institutions, with faculty publications consistently appearing in leading academic journals.
Business Administration: Human Resource Management / Organizational Behavior (HRM/OB)
The PhD concentration in Human Resource Management/Organizational Behavior (HRM/OB) at the Fox School prepares students for academic careers at prominent research universities. Research is one of the most important parts of a PhD student's academic life. Our curriculum provides training in methodology and diverse content areas to enable students to achieve research excellence.
Business Administration: International Business (IB)
The PhD in Business Administration with a concentration in International Business prepares individuals for advanced research and scholarship on issues that cut across national boundaries. The program adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to the phenomenon of cross-border business: faculty in the program use the lens of finance, economics, marketing, as well as strategic management in their research and teaching.
Business Administration: Management Information Systems (MIS)
The PhD Business Administration in MIS produces high-caliber faculty who are ready to assume responsibilities at top-tier research universities and generate high-impact research. A hallmark of our program is the close collaboration between faculty and PhD students. The program includes highly acclaimed faculty with an excellent research record and extensive experience in mentoring doctoral students.
Business Administration: Marketing
Prepare for an exceptional academic career with recognized experts and successful researchers. The Fox PhD program's marketing concentration provides rigorous training in scholarly academic research and university-level teaching with support from distinguished faculty who hold doctorates from top business schools.
Business Administration: Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM)
The PhD concentration in Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM) prepares students in theoretical and empirical research to assume academic positions in operations-related departments at major research universities. This concentration's interdisciplinary approach allows students to immerse themselves in the tenets of operations and supply chain and services, and to utilize cross-disciplinary methods from marketing, information systems, statistics, healthcare management, engineering, and economics.
Business Administration: Risk Management and Insurance (RMI)
The PhD concentration in Risk Management and Insurance (RMI) prepares students for academic careers at research universities so that they are competitive for positions in RMI-dedicated departments as well as specialized roles in finance, economics, or actuarial science departments, depending on the interests of the student.
Business Administration: Strategic Management (SGM)
The PhD in Business Administration program with a concentration in Strategic Management (SGM) engages students in advanced research and scholarship. The concentration provides rigorous training in scholarly academic research and university-level teaching with support from distinguished faculty who hold doctorates from top business schools.
Business Administration: Tourism and Sport
The School of Sport, Tourism, and Hospitality Management (STHM), in conjunction with the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University, offers a PhD degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Tourism and Sport.
Statistics
The PhD in Statistics at Fox School of Business prepares students to pursue original research in academia, industry, and government. The program instills within students the foundations necessary to understand new statistical theories and methodological tools as they are developed.
Decision Neuroscience PhD
The interdisciplinary PhD program in Decision Neuroscience is a collaborative effort with the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts. The Fox School has been at the forefront of the field of decision neuroscience over the past decade.
Commitment to Inclusion
The Fox School is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. All students admitted to Fox PhD programs are considered for full financial support. Funding typically comes in the form of an assistantship and includes full tuition and a competitive stipend for at least four years, based on adequate progress and yearly evaluations. Students who apply before the January 5 deadline will also be considered for Temple's prestigious university fellowships.