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Professional Doctorate in Business Administration (Research)

  • Doctorate (PhD)

Build upon your professional experience with a research degree If you are a business professional looking to extend your expertise and progress your career to the next level, then the Professional Doctorate in Business Administration (Research) will help you embrace your past professional and...

Key details

Degree Type
Doctorate (PhD)
Duration
4 years full-time
Course Code
380JA.1, 097118F

About this course

Build upon your professional experience with a research degree

If you are a business professional looking to extend your expertise and progress your career to the next level, then the Professional Doctorate in Business Administration (Research) will help you embrace your past professional and workplace experience to develop a host of relevant research skills. This carefully designed program provides opportunities for advanced study and reflection on practice across a range of professional fields including accountancy, business management, economics, human resource development, international management, organisational behaviour, and more.

You will explore a research subject of your choosing in the form of a dissertation and can tailor the course content to suit your professional interests through your choice of suitable electives. As a Higher Degree by Research (HDR), this course is covered under the Australian Government's Research Training Program (RTP) funding model, which provides a fee offset for domestic students for the standard duration of the course.

Study locations

Canberra

What you will learn

  • evaluate and apply specialised knowledge and research skills in planning, demonstrating and justifying a research project in the context of professional practice in a business field
  • demonstrate trans-disciplinary higher order research, analytical and problem-solving skills
  • apply existing professional and other expert skills to great effect in business, business workplaces and the society of the Knowledge Economy
  • illustrate specialised research skills, knowledge and expertise applicable to professional practice or the production and application of knowledge in business
  • demonstrate a systemic and critical understanding of a substantial and complex body of knowledge at the frontier of an area of professional practice in a field of business.

Career pathways

  • Academic
  • Lecturer
  • Sessional academic
  • Senior research officer
  • Senior research fellow
  • Company director
  • General manager
  • Chief executive officer
  • President
  • Vice president
  • Chief financial officer
  • Board member
  • Marketing director
  • Business start-up adviser
  • Entrepreneur
  • Business consultant
  • Public servant
  • Senior policy officer
  • Indigenous program director
  • Human resources director
  • Industrial relations director
  • International diplomat

Credit for prior study or work

There are currently no formal credit transfer arrangements for entry to this course. Any previous study or work experience will only be considered as part of the application process in accordance with current course rules and university policy.

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Business & Management courses at University of Canberra.
86.7%
Overall satisfaction
83.1%
Skill scale
77.4%
Teaching scale
93.2%
Employed full-time
$103.7k
Average salary