Doctorate in Business

For those of you who seek the pinnacle in academic credentials, JIU’s Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) delivers a powerful program designed to enhance your critical thinking and analytical skills, hone your leadership abilities and enable you to develop an expertise in conducting and understanding research, methodology and evaluation.  

JIU’s DBA offers a challenging core curriculum with a strong foundation in the basic disciplines. In concert, we address the dissertation portion through a number of concurrent courses created to walk you through your dissertation. These courses will assist in the formulation of your topic, the clarification of your research and the organization of your writing. Working with collegial peer cohorts will provide you with support and serve as a resource throughout your effort.

For business and working academic professionals who want to propel their careers forward, a JIU DBA will afford you a competitive edge in the business field, whether you want to work in universities in administration or instruction or as a consultant, business coach and other management-level opportunities.

REQUIRED PROGRAM DISCLOSURES

Federal Regulations require that Institutions of Higher Education provide to students required information regarding each program. This information includes potential occupations in which the program prepares students, tuition and fees, completion rates and median loan debt.

• Occupations
• Estimated Program Costs
• Tuition
• On-time Completion Rates
• Median Loan Debt

Occupations:

• 11-9199.00 - Managers, All Other
• 25-1011.00 - Business Teachers, Postsecondary
• 11-1011.00 - Chief Executives
• 11-1021.00 - General and Operations Managers
• 13-2099.01 - Financial Quantitative Analysts
• 15-1099.11 - Information Technology Project Managers

Estimated Program Costs:

Tuition Fees	Books (Supplies)	Fees	Total Program Cost
$55,080	$3,060	$350	$58,490

Tuition:

Course Tuition
Three-Credit Course	$2,295

On-time Completion Rates:

Total Completed1	Completed On-Time2	On-Time Completion Rate
No Data3	No Data3	No Data3

1. Includes all students who completed the given program between 7/1/10 and 6/30/11 regardless of how long it took to complete the program.
2. Includes only those students who completed between 7/1/10 and 6/30/11 and completed on-time (100% of the program length, as indicated on the JIU Enrollment Agreement).
3. 'No Data' indicates that there were less than 10 graduates during this time period; if there were less than 10 students, provacy rules exempt us from reporting these numbers.

Please note, that the on-time completion rates reflected here are impacted by program credits transferred into JIU from other universities.

Median Loan Debt:

	Amt. Borrowed Median
Title IV Loan Debt	No Data1
Private Ed. Loan	No Data1
	Median Amount Owed
Institutional Finance Plans	No Data1