Doctor of Business Administration

Programme Director: Dr WU, Wei Ping

The Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) programme is designed to equip senior practitioners in business and business academics in higher education sector with cutting-edge research skills and profound insight into management. It is a well-structured professional doctorate programme with integration of courses, workshops and a thesis. Students are required to take 7 taught courses, attend 8 professional workshops and write theses. The DBA thesis is no less than a PhD thesis in terms of academic rigour, but they differ in their choice of topics, with the DBA work usually more practically-orientated and perhaps case-based. Each DBA candidate is expected to make personal contribution to the knowledge of business and management practice by means of the independent thesis research. The DBA degree will be awarded to candidates who satisfy all the requirements of courses and workshops and successfully defend their theses. The duration of this programme spans from a minimum period of 3 years up to a maximum period of 6 years. For a study plan of minimum 3 years, 5 trimesters are scheduled for taught courses and the remaining 4 trimesters are scheduled for DBA thesis. Students are required to attend 8 professional workshops during their study period of the whole programme. All taught courses are to be conducted in an intensive study mode, i.e. normally around 3.5 days for a 2-unit course and 4.5 days for a 3-unit course. A professional workshop is usually to last for one day.

The structure of the curriculum is as follows:

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