CSU's Doctor of Business Administration is a research higher degree that provides an opportunity for experienced business and public sector personnel to refine and extend their business knowledge and skill at an advanced level.
This research focused course is designed to extend professional business, management or administrative knowledge. In this way the course is designed for candidates who have a strong practical business or management background and are interested in developing deeper analytical, research and problem solving skills.
As a research-based professional doctorate, the CSU Doctor of Business Administration provides strongly industry focused and practically relevant education. It produces better informed, skilled and reflective professional practitioners and, in doing so, equips professionals for diverse and changing work contexts by offering the development of skills and knowledge that will have enduring benefits.
The Doctor of Business Administration is designed to develop an advanced level of research capability which equips candidates with a knowledge base to make a significant contribution to business professional practice through the conduct of original research.
The course offers a useful balance of structure and practical focus and is designed to develop your research skills in a structured and logical way. It provides the relevant building blocks for developing a research capability thorough a series of structured coursework subjects.
This foundation then develops a path way for the conduct of exciting and innovative research relevant to your work environment.
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The course consists of the following programs:
1) Doctor of Business Administration coursework:
Each student must successfully complete four doctoral level subjects (for a total of 64 points)
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2) Doctor of Business Administration thesis
The student, under the direction of the appointed supervisors, will identify, analyse and propose solutions to current problems confronting professional practice in business through the application of knowledge, thereby improving professional practice or understanding.
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To graduate students must satisfactorily complete 192 points (coursework component 64 points and thesis 128 points).
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"We believe business-to-business interactions are critical to enhance successful business practice. As a result, industry engagement is pivotal to the course. You will be exposed to business mentoring opportunities, networking, collaborative learning, and group learning with other businesses through clusters."
"At CSU I have the freedom to set my own research goals but the quality of supervision is excellent."