Business Administration (Research)

This carefully designed program provides opportunities for advanced study and reflection on practice across a range of professional fields including accountancy, business management, economics, human resource development, international management, organisational behaviour, and more.

You will explore a research subject of your choosing in the form of a dissertation and can tailor the course content to suit your professional interests through your choice of suitable electives. As a Higher Degree by Research (HDR), this course is covered under the Australian Government’s Research Training Program (RTP) funding model, which provides a fee offset for domestic students for the standard duration of the course.

Study a Professional Doctorate in Business Administration (Research) at University of Canberra  and you will:

• evaluate and apply specialised knowledge and research skills in planning, demonstrating and justifying a research project in the context of professional practice in a business field

• demonstrate trans-disciplinary higher order research, analytical and problem-solving skills

• apply existing professional and other expert skills to great effect in business, business workplaces and the society of the Knowledge Economy

• illustrate specialised research skills, knowledge and expertise applicable to professional practice or the production and application of knowledge in business

• demonstrate a systemic and critical understanding of a substantial and complex body of knowledge at the frontier of an area of professional practice in a field of business.

Career opportunities

• Academic
• Lecturer
• Sessional academic
• Senior research officer
• Senior research fellow
• Company director
• General manager
• Chief executive officer

Program Structure

Courses include:

• Research Component (Literature Review)

• Research Component (Methodology and Data Collection)

• Research Component

• Professional Doctorate Research Proposal

• Research Fundamentals

• Reading and Critiquing Literature

Admission requirements