Doctor in Business Administration (DBA)

Program Description

The Doctor in Business Administration is intended for graduates and executives to enhance their functional and technical competencies and advance their level of administrative and management functions in the general business environment. It aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge in functional and technical areas to become globally competitive leaders and professional managers through essential business strategy, financial decision-making, and organizational theory and behavior. Similarly, it is committed to produce global managers, resilient, sharp and ethical decision-makers, and innovators in a rapidly changing business world. Faithful to intellectual expertise and leadership, the DBA program is designed to enhance skills in analytical thinking, good judgment, innovation, creativity, effective communication, and change management skills needed by the national and global industry in this 21st century. The DBA program is designed to develop competencies through theory and practice.

Program Learning Outcomes

As postulated in CMO 15, S 2019, the DBA program leads to an advanced research qualification and devoted to advanced study and original research. Its graduates are expected to display the following:

Demonstrate thoroughly advanced systematic knowledge and skills in highly specialized and/or complex interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field of learning;
Utilize complex research/creative work and/or professional practice and/or the advancement of learning with full independence in individual work and/or in teams of interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary business setting;
Apply more complex setting that requires strong and sharp leadership in research and critical and creative work with strategic value added, technology-based development, and awareness of ethical dimensions and professional standards in decision-making;
Apply significant level of expertise-based autonomy and accountability to professional leadership for innovation, research and/or development management in highly specialized or interdisciplinary or multi-disciplinary field;
Show the integration of business and non-business disciplines in order to produce new ideas, strategies, and practical approaches to address business difficulties encountered by senior leadership in organizations;
Generate, evaluate, and assess the ethical obligations and responsibilities of business for the purpose of responsible management and leadership and lifelong learning;
Exhibit an ability to address complex industry challenges using the frameworks of industry rules and regulations that build prescriptive and ethical conclusions and effectively communicate real world experience and knowledge;
Use critical and analytical thinking to identify viable options that can create short-term and long-term value for organizations and their stakeholders and remain responsive to the national and global business demands.

The DBA program concludes with the submission and defense of a dissertation representing a significant contribution to knowledge in the respective field of study. It is expected that the DBA student submits his/her dissertation for publication