Course details
Doctor of Business Administration (BS25)
| Course year: | 2011 |
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| Admissions: | Yes |
| Enrolments: | Yes |
| Course duration (full-time): | 6 semesters |
| Course duration (part-time): | 12 semesters |
| Course duration (external): | Internal only |
| Domestic fees (indicative): | 2011: Full fee tuition $12,500 (indicative) per semester (subject to annual review) |
| Domestic entry: | February and July (Domestic students only. This course is not available for international students.) |
| Total credit points: | 288 |
| Standard credit points/full-time semester: | 48 |
| Standard credit points/part-time semester: | 24 |
| Course coordinator: | Dr Amanda Gudmundsson |
| Discipline coordinator: | Dr Amanda Gudmundsson |
| Discipline contact: | Business Student Services on 3138 2050 or email bus@qut.edu.au |
| Campus: | Gardens Point |
Why choose this course?
Our new business administration program is designed to meet the needs of the researching professional, rather than the professional researcher.
This research-based qualification suits business professionals who wish to improve their ability to make research-based business decisions.
It will enable you to make a substantial contribution to business practice by applying theoretical frameworks, methods and techniques towards solving contemporary and complex business problems. Candidates develop their research and discipline-based knowledge and skill through coursework units, an independent research project, and through regular participation in professional development workshops with other cohort candidates.
Course design
Students will complete 288 credit points consisting of:
• Discipline based coursework (48 credit points)
• Research skills training (48 credit points)
• Research project (192 credit points)
Career impact
Graduates will be positioned to be leaders within their industry with particular emphasis on research and development. Specifically, they will be able to:
• practise at a high level in a variety of organisational contexts
• apply innovative solutions to business problems and opportunities, through an understanding of new and relevant scholarship and the role and limitations of research in solving business problems
• present scholarly research to both academic and non-academic audiences.
Entry requirements
Admission to the DBA course will be based on candidates having completed a minimum of five years senior level business or professional practice experience, and either:
• a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) with a GPA of 5.5 (on a scale of 7) or greater from QUT or another recognised institution; or
• a Masters degree in a business discipline area (e.g. Master of Business) with a GPA of 5.5 or greater from QUT or another recognised institution; or
• a Bachelor’s degree in a business discipline with first or second class Honours Division A, or equivalent, from QUT or another recognised institution.
Admission is subject to these requirements, plus an interview with the Director Graduate Studies or the Assistant Dean (Research) and mutual acceptance of a study plan on a case-by-case basis, and subject to availability of a suitable supervisor.
Weekend doctoral seminars
Students will be expected to attend two intensive weekend doctoral seminars per year.
Assumed knowledge
Applicants are assumed to have postgraduate-level knowledge of their proposed research area, or to develop such knowledge through appropriate discipline based study in the coursework component of the degree.
Abbreviation
DBA
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