The DePaul DBA is more than an impressive credential. You’ll become a high-level thinker and leader, deepening and broadening your perspective and skills.

Our Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) program will transform you into a leading business executive or academic. As a teacher, you’ll inspire students looking to find new possibilities in their lives, careers and business communities. As a business leader, you'll develop new ways to frame complex business problems, analyze data, develop strategic solutions and lead successful execution.

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This three-year, part-time program is ideal for the working professional who has earned a previous master's degree. Ideal candidates will enter the program with significant business acumen gained through a minimum of eight years of experience, including:

• Senior business leaders seeking to be agents of change from the C-suite. This program will empower you to transform your organization and address complex business issues through sophisticated applied research and real-world techniques.
• Teaching professionals with business school experience. A DBA degree from DePaul prepares you with the teaching and research skills needed to transition to academia full time.

"The program has really allowed me to see things from a different perspective and has given me the ability to bring evidence-based research to the investment process or to solving a problem for a client in a much more thorough way."

Brian? (DBA ’19)
Clinical Professor, Driehaus College of Business
Principal, Black & Essington Solutions 

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Are you looking for more than just another degree? Are you excited by the opportunity to move from succeeding to transforming, from leading to inspiring? Then a DBA degree at DePaul's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business is for you.

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Contact us: kgsb@depaul.edu | (312) 362-8810

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Degree Requirements

??DePaul's DBA program begins with a strong emphasis on research methodology and disciplinary coursework that features the most current developments from both academia and professional practice.

Coursework simultaneously builds candidates' interdisciplinary business knowledge and applied research skills. Candidates take seven research methodology and seven business discipline specific courses. Access course descriptions by rolling over the course titles below.

Each course is delivered in three-hour modules resulting in five different courses during a given residency, and courses are staggered throughout the year to offer deep engagement in each topic.

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Research Methodology Courses

Course	Title	Quarter Hours
Research Methodology Courses
GSB 800	INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH METHODS	2
GSB 801	EMPIRICAL RESEARCH STUDIES	6
GSB 802	STATISTICS IN BUSINESS RESEARCH	4
GSB 803	APPLIED MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS	5
GSB 804	FORECASTING AND PREDICTION	4
GSB 805	DATA SCIENCE AND VISUALIZATION	2
GSB 806	INSTITUTIONAL AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH DISSEMINATION	2
GSB 820	LEADING ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH PEOPLE	2
GSB 820	LEADING ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH PEOPLE	3
GSB 850	QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS	3

Disciplinary Courses

Course	Title	Quarter Hours
GSB 821	CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN FINANCIAL RESEARCH	3
GSB 822	MARKETING AND BUSINESS STRATEGY	3
GSB 823	LEADING ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE	4
GSB 824	BEHAVIORAL DECISION THEORY	3
GSB 825	BUSINESS ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY	2
GSB 826	CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN ACCOUNTING RESEARCH	3

Research Labs1

Course	Title	Quarter Hours
GSB 840	GROUP RESEARCH LAB I	2
GSB 841	GROUP RESEARCH LAB II	2
GSB 842	DISSERTATION PROPOSAL LAB	5
GSB 843	DISSERTATION LAB II	3
GSB 843	DISSERTATION LAB II	3
GSB 843	DISSERTATION LAB II	6

1	These courses are taken Pass/Fail

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