Doctorate Business Administration International
Part-time
Stoddart Building, Sheffield Business School, where you attend for one week's intensive study
The DBA International is a dual degree in collaboration with Business School Netherlands, one of the leading business schools in the Netherlands. When you successfully complete it you receive an award from Sheffield Hallam and the Business School Netherlands.
This course provides you with in-depth study and personal scholarship in a specialist professional area. It enables you to make an independent and original contribution to knowledge and the practice of management and the professions.
You gain sound research training and development, allowing you to complete your research successfully and to continue your contribution to knowledge. You work with other senior managers and professionals to build a community of reflective practitioners.
The course enables you to
• make a contribution to the theory and practice of management in your profession through your thesis
• complete rigorous business and management research to improve organisational decision making
• consider management and professional problems from many perspectives
• assess your own insights and impact as a manager
• continue to build on your learning through working as a reflective practitioner
Completing the course also helps you to enhance leadership, management and business success, particularly in the regions of Central and Eastern Europe, Southern Africa and Asia.
In year one you attend two modules, each lasting one week. You spend week one at the Business School Netherlands (BSN) in Buren, Netherlands and week two at Sheffield Business School in Sheffield. In year two you attend one module lasting one week to be held in a location in Europe (to be confirmed).
The focus of the intensive study weeks is about gaining knowledge and skills in advanced management practice, and philosophies and methods of research in business and management. You then write a thesis on a topic of your choice.
This course is a dual degree in collaboration with Business School Netherlands, one of the leading business schools in the Netherlands.
Attendance
Part-time – typically four years
In year one, you attend two one-week study blocks. In year two, you attend a one-week study block.
The first module begins in January 2011, dates to be confirmed.
Admissions office
For more information contact Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, Stoddart Building, City Campus, Sheffield S1 1WB. Phone 0114 225 2820, fax 0114 225 5268, e-mail sbs@shu.ac.uk
For an application form see www.shu.ac.uk/study/form
International students – see www.shu.ac.uk/international
Fees
For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/funding
For academic year 2010/11
International students
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Assessment
Continuous assessment and a detailed research proposal. We assess your research through your thesis. more>>
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