Doctorate PhD Programs in Business Management

Claremont Graduate University

• Founded in 1925, Claremont Graduate University is approximately 35 miles east of Los Angeles in the city of Claremont. The university is solely a graduate-level, private institution and has no undergraduate programs. The university's Drucker School of Management grants a Ph.D. degree in management. The highly selective program typically only accepts students who earned a master's of business administration degree from Claremont. Applicants must also have a sponsor on the faculty of the university prior to applying. The doctoral program begins with 72 hours of classroom-based education, followed by an intensive oral examination. After which students become candidates for the degree and have seven years to complete their dissertation.

  Claremont Graduate University
  165 E. 10th St.
  Claremont, CA 91711
  (909) 621-8000
  cgu.edu

University of Maryland

• Located in College Park, the University of Maryland is approximately 10 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. A public university, the school was founded in 1856. The graduate school at the University of Maryland offers a doctoral program in business management that begins with 42 credits of classroom-based study. Students select a focus or major for these classes from accounting and information assurance, finance, human resource management, organizational behavior, strategic management, information systems, operations management and management science, marketing, and logistics and transportation. The comprehensive examination that follows the classroom study is given in written form. A dissertation is then required to complete the degree program. All students who receive admittance to the Ph.D. program attend for their first two semesters on a probationary basis; failure to maintain an adequate grade-point average during that time results in dismissal from the program.

  University of Maryland
  College Park, MD 20742-5025
  (301) 314-8385
  maryland.edu

The University of Alabama

• A public university, the University of Alabama is situated in Tuscaloosa, a city 60 miles southwest of Alabama's capital, Birmingham. The school was founded in 1831 and its graduate school is home to over 4,000 students. The College of Commerce and Business Administration at the university grants a Ph.D. in management. The curriculum includes 13 classroom-based courses and the completion of a dissertation. Students specialize in entrepreneurship, health care management or human resource management. The program typically admits only three students to the program per year.

  University of Alabama
  102 Rose Admin
  Box 870100
  Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
  (205) 348-5666
  graduate.ua.edu