DOCTORAL PROGRAM

Learning Environment and Program Expectations

The program is targeted at experienced individuals who have excelled in business or can demonstrate strong academic achievement and the potential to perform advanced research. The program is intended to provide graduates with the skills, knowledge, and ability to succeed as academic researchers and teachers, research-oriented practitioners, and high-level consultants.

Applicants are expected to hold a Master degree, preferably an MBA or equivalent, and will need to demonstrate excellent results in their previous studies. The doctoral program is taught entirely in English.

Program participants are carefully selected according to the doctoral admissions profile and their willingness and suitability to commit to a substantial period of intensive, self-regulated research. It is expected that doctoral students will become integral parts of the university community, and use their time to prepare for a career of advanced research and publishing. In this context, they enjoy a status as colleagues rather than "students" in the accepted sense, and faculty will endeavor to treat them in this fashion at all times.

The doctoral program assumes students are capable of undertaking research at a high level and that their field of specific inquiry will be clearly identified before they move to on to full doctoral candidacy. In some cases students may be asked to audit courses in Frame 1, 2 and 3 in order to ensure they are thoroughly prepared for the writing of their dissertation. This decision will be made during the admissions process.

Students are strongly encouraged to purchase a personal laptop computer equipped with a LAN card, and Microsoft Office 2000 or XP (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel).

IUM Learning Outcomes