Doctorate in Business Administration

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. We created this fully online DBA program to serve business and working academic professionals who want to propel their careers forward.

We have a world-class faculty that design and deliver a high-caliber curriculum that is designed with your professional development in mind. Our unique DBA perfectly balances courses and research so students will develop expert-level knowledge in their chosen field. Assignments are authentically based and are appropriate to the courses’ needs, whether it is problem-based or project-based learning. Our students often turn their coursework into work projects for real and immediate benefits.

All too often, a large percentage of doctoral students across the country get through their program but become overwhelmed by the thought of producing a dissertation. JIU’s doctoral program is unique – we combine a DBA Project with a unique parallel mentoring track which supports our students’ academic progress from the outset and keeps their focus on degree completion.

Graduates of the program will demonstrate:

• extensive knowledge of emerging business and management ideas, and their relevance to applied business settings in order to contribute to advanced professional practice
• the ability to think critically about the literature of both business management and applied research
• the ability to integrate applied research with academic learning as a forerunner to the formulation of vision and strategy in the business enterprise
• the ability to undertake rigorous, independent, and creative DBA Project using applied research methodologies, to, contribute to the professional body of knowledge, and communicate the research findings.