Doctor of Business Administration
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Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) programs are designed to provide professionals and executives with advanced tools and research skills required for strategic planning and decision making. DBA programs are popular among working professionals because the focus is on applied problem solving. Many DBA graduates either continue their career as management executives, use the degree to shift their career, or use the degree to alter their career trajectory within the same discipline. Graduating from a quality DBA program demonstrates the highest levels of commitment to continual learning, leadership excellence, and professional development. The USU Doctor of Business Administration is a 42-credit hour program with a strategic management concentration.
Tuition Rate:
$33,370
(including fees)
Monthly Payment Plan:
$450 per month
Curricular Practical Training (CPT) is a program requirement and students must take at least one term of CPT prior to entering their Systematic Project courses. Students are permitted to take more than one term of CPT if they choose so long as they remain eligible. Once students have been authorized for CPT, they will be enrolled in MGT998 DBA Professional Symposium.
Admission requirements can be found HERE
Please refer to the University Catalog for Tuition and Fees.
The program is designed to be completed in 24 months with a total of 42 semester credits.
For more information about program requirements and completion refer to the University Catalog.
Core Requirements:
This course is designed to develop students’ critical thinking and competencies to navigate and successfully complete their doctoral program. Students will engage in learning activities to become better readers of academic texts, to understand the process of academic writing, and to become proficient in understanding the scholar-practitioner model. Emphasis will be placed on understanding academic voice, refreshing APA style guidelines, and understanding the doctoral research process. Students will develop a scholar-practitioner perspective through reading, writing, and reflection within their specific discipline and program.
The purpose of this course is to teach students about topic selection, developing justification and purpose statements, and formulating research questions. In this course, students will go through the process of selecting a topic that can be systematically investigated, writing a justification statement that is grounded in the literature, writing a purpose statement, and developing aligned research questions. A formal Concept Justification Paper (CJP) will be developed in this course.
The purpose of this course is to teach students about topic selection, developing justification and purpose statements, and formulating research questions. In this course, students will go through the process of selecting a topic that can be systematically investigated, writing a justification statement that is grounded in the literature, writing a purpose statement, and developing aligned research questions. A formal Concept Justification Paper (CJP) will be developed in this course.
This course provides an in-depth examination of the theoretical foundations underlying the field of management. Special attention is devoted to establishing a historical perspective for understanding the ongoing development of management theory, research, philosophies, and practices. A literature review of the emergent management disciplines, including business policy/strategy, human resource management, organizational behavior, organizational theory, and production/operations management is provided in the course.
This course is an examination of the content and methodological issues in organizational behavior. Topics examined will include group dynamics, leadership, motivation, and communication.
This course covers traditional and contemporary organizational theories with emphasis on current research and problem solving.
This course is an examination of business ethics and social responsibility in both domestic and global settings. Students will explore ethical and moral considerations of corporate conduct, social responsibilities, policies, and strategies. Emphasis is on the definition, scope, application, and analysis of ethical principles as they relate to issues of public and organizational consequence and business decision making in the domestic and global business environments.
This course is an examination of the interrelationships of company philosophy, purpose, and policy that are the foundations for strategy formulation and implementation. Topics include the role of the board of directors; business policy planning; strategic positioning; sustainable and adaptable value creation processes; competitive advantages; and organizational change.
This course will provide an opportunity for students to establish or advance their understanding of research through critical exploration of research language, ethics, and approaches. The course introduces the language of research, ethical principles and challenges, and the elements of the research process within quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Participants will use these theoretical underpinnings to begin to critically review literature relevant to their field or interests and determine how research findings are useful in forming their understanding of their work, social, local and global environment.
Specialized Research Design Electives:
The purpose of this course is to investigate the logic, methods, and practice of case study research. To gain an understanding of case study research, course participants will explore its positioning among other social science research methods, especially in the qualitative domain, and build a critical knowledge base of business research that utilizes case-study design. Toward this end, students will examine the types of questions that can be answered appropriately with case study research and learn about case study design. Students will also learn about both case study data collection and data analysis and relate it specifically to their topic and research questions. Moreover, students will learn about the structure of writing their case study findings and will consider the ways researcher positionality impacts the research process and outcomes. Of note, the student will undergo CITI training during this course.
The purpose of this course is to introduce strategies to perform a systematic literature review of any research problem. Students will learn how to define inclusion and exclusion criteria, search for the evidence, and extract data. Moreover, students will learn how to describe this design in the context of a formal inquiry. Lastly, students will learn how to structurally report future findings within the context of a systematic literature review. Of note, the student will undergo CITI training during this course.
Archival data are data that already exist in database form, and archival research consists of analyzing previously collected data. In sum, archival research is applying statistical measures to describe the information in a parsimonious way. In this course, students will learn about archival data, the advantages and disadvantages of sampling from archival data as compared to utilizing the entire archival database, and how to use Intellectus Statistics to analyze archival data. The purpose of the course is to develop the knowledge and skill set required to generate and interpret the output associated with a range of analytical techniques. Of note, the student will undergo CITI training during this course.
Systematic Project Course Requirements:
In this series of courses, students will work with their chair to finalize their SDP proposal and earn formal approval, apply to the IRB and earn approval, collect data, analyze data, write the results/findings chapter, and earn formal approval of their SDP.
In this series of courses, students will work with their chair to finalize their SDP proposal and earn formal approval, apply to the IRB and earn approval, collect data, analyze data, write the results/findings chapter, and earn formal approval of their SDP.
In this series of courses, students will work with their chair to finalize their SDP proposal and earn formal approval, apply to the IRB and earn approval, collect data, analyze data, write the results/findings chapter, and earn formal approval of their SDP.
In this series of courses, students will work with their chair to finalize their SDP proposal and earn formal approval, apply to the IRB and earn approval, collect data, analyze data, write the results/findings chapter, and earn formal approval of their SDP.