Doctorate in Business Administration, D.B.A.
In the Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) degree program, industry and academic professionals have the opportunity to build upon master’s-level competencies, skills, and knowledge. Students in this program include business and organizational leaders who are ready to move up to executive positions and college and university faculty who seek a premier doctoral credential in business administration. The curriculum is designed to prepare students to perform more effectively in existing professional roles, to qualify for roles with increasing responsibility, to start their own business, or develop capabilities for a second career in consulting or teaching at the college level.
The DBA degree program is designed to assist busy professionals in balancing the demands of career, family, and school. It is a blended on-campus experience. The program’s flexible blended format combines online courses with one on-campus experience per term at our Florida campus (Tampa, FL). The on-campus experience is three days in length per term, consisting of workshops, course orientations, course assignments and consultation with faculty members.
Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs):
- Strategic Thinking Evaluate business issues and trends brought forth by economic globalization, to generate strategies that sustain long-term business success.
- Divergent Thinking Analyze and prioritize the needs of diverse stakeholders in business situations to recommend innovative, feasible, ethical, and legal actions.
- Professional Communication Synthesize and communicate in a professional manner complex information that is concise, clear, organized and well supported, appropriate to each business situation.
- Informed Decision-Making Evaluate and apply relevant academic and professional literature to make evidence-based decisions in cross-cultural business environments.
- Research Design, conduct, and justify applied research in the area of specialization to foster positive change in organizations and communities.
- Professional Focus
- Outcome 6.1: Accounting Evaluate the results of accounting research and analysis to determine appropriate business actions for meeting organizational goals.
- Outcome 6.2: International Business Evaluate current research and practices in the global marketplace and analyze worldwide drivers of business success to recommend sound and responsible organizational strategies.
- Outcome 6.3: Marketing Analyze the foundation and development of marketing and consumer behavior theory and practice to strengthen the marketing function in modern organizations.
- Outcome 6.4: Management Evaluate management research and current practices to develop employees and systems that sustain competitive and responsible organizations in changing environments.
In addition to the School of Business and Information Technology Graduate Admission Requirements, program requires:
- A Master’s degree in business or in a business-related discipline; the degree must be awarded by an accredited institution or an appropriately certified foreign institution.
- A grade point average of at least 3.0 (on a scale of 4.0) in academic work leading to the master’s degree, and in any subsequent graduate study.
- At least three years of full-time managerial or professional experience, documented by a recently updated resume or an online professional profile. If not currently employed, the applicant must show active participation in professional organizations (documented through the submission of a resume or career summary).
- Personal/professional goal statement with a self-appraisal of qualifications for the profession
- Two letters of recommendation
Program Details:
Required Courses
Core Courses - 21 SH
| DBA 620 | Holistic Management in Organizations | 3 |
| DBA 622 | Managing Global Challenges | 3 |
| DBA 624 | Marketing Strategy and Management | 3 |
| DBA 626 | Corporate and Global Finance | 3 |
| DBA 628 | Advanced Operations Management | 3 |
| DBA 630 | Strategy Formulation, Implementation and Evaluation | 3 |
| DBA 632 | Innovation and Entrepreneurship | 3 |
Research Courses - 15 SH
| RES 600 | Introduction to Doctoral Studies and Research | 3 |
| RES 610 | Advanced Writing | 3 |
| RES 650 | Data-Driven Decision Making and Research | 3 |
| RES 652 | Quantitative Research Method | 3 |
| RES 654 | Qualitative Research Methods | 3 |
Management Concentration - 12 SH
| DBA 650 | Organizational Behavior | 3 |
| DBA 652 | Management Science | 3 |
| DBA 654 | Organizational Development and Change Management | 3 |
| DBA 656 | Strategic Team Management | 3 |
Doctoral Research - 12 SH
Note: National Louis University may be able to support the degree completion of students formerly enrolled in the DBA program at Argosy University. Through a teach-out approval, NLU is able to accept any and all transfer credit earned in the DBA program at Argosy University with a grade of "B" or better beyond the usual NLU policy on transfer credit towards doctoral programs. Students can speak to their Academic Advisor about the qualification criteria for the teach-out program,