Advance your career by studying a Doctorate degree without interrupting your work
The Doctorate of Business Administration(DBA) program is designed for working professionals who would like take their critical and analytical skills to a new level and enhance their professional credentials. The program, which is a partnership with the University of Plymouth and the International Institute in Geneva, will enable you to earn a British accredited doctoral degree by attending the taught phase workshops in Geneva. You will begin your journey by identifying a real-world problem within your organisation that is directly relevant to you. Your research will lead you to create novel tools to address that problem and improve the practice of management long term. The program starts in October of each year and participants will have the flexibility to attend these workshops and then conduct their research online under the guidance of assigned supervisors. We offer the flexibility to fit around your professional commitments.
DBA is part-time research based programs in business and public administration with the aim to prepare business managers and future leaders. This degree is academically rigorous and provide practical professional qualification. It is designed to enable participants to synthesize and develop professional practice, theoretical understanding and reflexive capability.
Furthermore, participants will enhance their personal and professional development by fueling their research curiosity, learn the importance of critical thinking and decision making and prepare themselves to address the unique challenges and opportunities of today’s business and public policy environment.
Many of the students work full time while pursuing the DBA. This degree whilst being equivalent in status and challenge to a PhD, are more appropriate to advance professional practice.
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You will attend three 3-day (Friday-Saturday-Sunday) workshops organized in around every 3 months at (IIG):
1- Advanced Qualitative Research Methods for Doctoral Study
2- Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Doctoral Study
3- Applying Theory to Professional Practice
There will be workshops and seminars to help you to develop a Research Proposal under the supervision of a research advisor.
Upon the successful completion of your Research Proposal, you will be promoted to candidacy status and continue with your research (any topic linked to your work or passion/interest), finally producing a thesis. This will be done wherever you are based through email/skype under the guidance of assigned supervisors at the University of Plymouth.
| Module title | Teaching Block Dates |
| Advanced Qualitative Research Methods for Doctoral Study (Cohort 14) | 4-6 October 2024 |
| Doctorate Research Proposal (Cohort 13) | 4-6 October 2024 |
| Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Doctoral Study (Cohort 14) | 24-26 January 2025 |
| Doctorate Research Proposal (Cohort 13) | 24-26 January 2025 |
| Applying Theory to Professional Practice (Cohort 14) | 8-10 May 2025 |
| 7th Doctorate Symposium (All Cohorts) | 10 May 2025 |
The University of Plymouth is one of the UK’s most prominent and dynamic universities with an educational history dating back to 1862. The Sunday Times University Guide 2011 named Plymouth as one of the top three universities in the United Kingdom.
The University of Plymouth has over 25’000 students and has a long record of high quality innovative research as demonstrated by its achievements in the RAE.
The university submitted twenty-five Units of Assessment in the 2008 RAE. The results show that the majority of research submitted by the university included world-leading research, achieving the highest rating possible - scoring 4 stars.
Overall, 80% of the research was judged as being of international repute. In the Research Fortnight research power league table, on the basis of the results of the 2008 RAE Plymouth has leapt 15 places to join the top 50 universities.
- A Master's degree (candidate with strong professional experience may be considered)
- Work experience
| Home / EU (par an) |
International & Islands (par an) |
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| Year 1 (Taught phase) |
£ 13'000 | £ 13'000 |
| Year 2 (Research proposal preparation and validation phase) | £ 8'950 | £ 8'950 |
| Year 3 & 4 (Research Phase) | £ 6'000 | £ 6'000 |
| Name | Award Date | Research topic |
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Arzoo Syeddah
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30/04/17 | A Dialectical Discourse on Responsible Business Behaviour with Small Medium Enterprises: A Case Study of Pakistan |
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Erdem Erciyes
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01/05/17 | The Impact of Culture, Leadership and Power on Staff Motivation in the Context of International Organizations |
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Kosmos Akande-Alasoka
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17/07/18 | Communication Technology and Governance: The Case of Nigeria |
| Abdulla N Al Noaimi | 28/10/18 | The Relationship Between Culture, Manager's Leadership Styles and Employees' Motivation Level in a Bahraini Service Organization Environment |
| Reynatou Noma Mounkaila | 11/02/19 | Corporate Social Responsibility, Path Dependency and Cultural Difference: An Analysis of Equitable Health Insurance Schemes for Niger |
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Corinne Tomta-Heinrich
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15/09/20 |
A pragmatist context-based assessment of the economic implications of eating patterns in a small sub-Saharan developing economy: Focus on Togo |
