Doctorate in Business Administration
The University of Phoenix's Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree program supplies persons holding a professional master's degree a way to investigate their individual inclination to become senior leaders in management professions. These individuals learn and demonstrate their competence and mastery of business administration literature by relating this knowledge to current business settings.
Graduates with a Doctorate in Business Administration will be able to:
- Identify, research alternatives, and solve business problems with the highest value-adding solutions.
- Perform financially justified, systems-based analysis and research for operations issues and technology-enabled opportunities in a global, market-based economy.
- Show business knowledge and be recognized as a business subject expert.
- Formulate and re-design industry rules and standards.
As the worldwide information economy develops, organizations are becoming more and more complex, and original organizational practices and models have become critical to addressing this complexity effectively. Therefore, leadership in these settings involves increased, more refined levels of abilities and knowledge. The DBA program strives to meet this need by supplying education at the doctoral-level to professional practitioners in management and business.
The following admission requirements are expected to be met by all applicants to this program:
1) A regionally or nationally accredited U.S. master's degree
2) A cumulative graduate GPA of 3.0 or higher
3) Have the capability to attend residential workshops in Phoenix, AZ (1st year-8 days; 2nd year-3 days; 3rd year-8 days)
4) Three years of professional full-time employment, including supervisory experience, and are currently employed
5) Three recommendation forms
6) A minimum score of 600 on the paper-based exam or 250 on the computer-based exam of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) for non-native speakers of English
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