Doctor in Business Administration (DBA)
Modified on: Thu, Mar 20 2025 2:54 PMDoctor in Business Administration (DBA)
Intending to address the rapidly changing global environment, this curriculum helps its students become prepared for entering the rapidly changing and ever-competitive business world by equipping them with the necessary skills that suit the industry's needs with the university’s highly qualified and competitive educational services.
The course offerings in this curriculum are grounded in the principles of the pragmatics of business, organization development, leadership, and experiential learning, where students develop their critical thinking, cultural competency, and ethical decision-making abilities.
Program Description
The Doctor in Business Administration (DBA) programs cater for graduates and executives to enhance their functional and technical competencies and advance their level of administrative and management functions in the general business environment. It intends to teach students all of the necessary skills and knowledge in functional and technical areas to become globally competitive business leaders and professional managers through essential business strategy, financial decision-making, and organizational theory and behavior. Similarly, it is committed to producing proficient global managers, resilient, sharp, and ethical decision-makers, and innovators in a rapidly changing business world.
Faithful to intellectual expertise and leadership, the DBA program aims to enhance skills in analytical thinking, good judgment, innovation, creativity, effective communication, and change management needed by the national and global industry in the 21st century. It aims to develop competencies through theory and practice.
Program Learning Outcomes
As postulated in CMO 15, S 2019, the DBA program leads to an advanced research qualification and is devoted to advanced study and original research. Graduates are expected to demonstrate the following:
Demonstrate thoroughly advanced systematic knowledge and skills in highly specialized and/or complex interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary fields of learning;
Utilize complex research, creative work, and/or professional practice and/or the advancement of learning with full independence in individual work and/or in teams in an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary business setting;
Apply a more complex setting that requires strong and sharp leadership in research and critical and creative work with strategic value added, technology-based development, and awareness of ethical dimensions and professional standards in decision-making;
Apply a significant level of expertise-based autonomy and accountability to professional leadership in innovation, research, and/or development management in highly specialized, interdisciplinary, or multi-disciplinary fields;
Show the integration of business and non-business disciplines to produce new ideas, strategies, and practical approaches to address business difficulties encountered by senior leadership in organizations;
Generate, evaluate, and assess the ethical obligations and responsibilities of business for the purpose of responsible management, leadership, and lifelong learning;
Demonstrate the ability to address complex industry challenges using the frameworks of industry rules and regulations that build prescriptive and ethical conclusions and effectively communicate real-world experience and knowledge;
Use critical and analytical thinking to identify viable options that can create short-term and long-term value for organizations and their stakeholders and remain responsive to national and global business demands.
The DBA program concludes with the submission and defense of a dissertation representing a significant contribution to knowledge in the respective field of study. It is expected that the DBA student submit his or her dissertation for publication.
Job Targets:
Finance Manager
Investment Fund Manager
Financial Analyst
Credit and Collections Manager
Finance Operations Manager
Budget Analyst
Business Intelligence Manager
Logistics Manager
Purchasing Manager
Marketing Manager
Business Development Manager
Sales Manager
Marketing Consultant
Human Resource Manager
Training and Development Manager
HR Consultant
Administrative Manager
College Instructor
Vice President for Operations
Senior Vice President for Operations
Vice President for Finance
Senior Vice President for Finance
Vice President for HR
Senior Vice President for HR
Vice President for Training and Development
Senior VP for Training and Development
General Manager
President
University Official (Director, Chief, Program Chair)
Business Consultant