The Ph.D. represents the highest level of academic achievement. The Department of Management offers the Ph.D. with concentrations in Organizational Behavior and Strategic Management. The attainment of the Ph.D. enables candidates to excel in academic careers and to perform as outstanding scholarly researchers and teachers. In training Ph.D. students, our focus is on preparing those individuals intent on pursuing academic careers in university settings (or similar positions) that have both research and teaching demands.

We offer programs of advanced education that are superior in content and quality. Excellence in training and education is achieved through small seminars, individual faculty attention, tutorials, and research mentoring relationships, whereby students work closely with faculty members engaged in leading-edge research.

The Ph.D. program affords candidates the flexibility to structure programs around their individual interests. Students major in either organizational behavior or strategic management with two supporting minors, one of their choice and the other in research methods. Students are expected to develop competencies that demonstrate both breadth in management and depth in a specialized area of expertise. The research methods training emphasizes research design and quantitative methods. Students are actively engaged in research activity throughout the duration of the program. Our Ph.D. program offers the opportunity to work closely with faculty members who are nationally and internationally recognized for professional and scholarly accomplishment. The Ph.D. program is small in numbers and rigorous in nature, and selection is limited only to well-qualified individuals. This allows us to create an environment necessary to the successful training of our Ph.D. students.