The Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program at Marshall University is a research-based doctoral program that combines a disciplined approach to scholarship with a focus on compelling problems of practice.
The three-year, hybrid program requires students to prepared an applied research proposal and dissertation.
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Our program is designed to accommodate working professionals with only five on campus sessions in the first two academic years. Coursework includes a combination of online live-taught courses, as well as self-paced online courses.
Marshall University is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and is only one of 194 schools worldwide to achieve this.
Students can choose from three course concentrations: Accounting, Health Care Management, or Management and Entrepreneurship.
Change careers, apply your new expertise to your existing organization, get published in a peer-reviewed journal, or so much more—earning your DBA has a wide variety of opportunities.
- Chief executive officer
- Business consultants
- Management analysts
- Market analysts
- Policy maker
- Entrepreneur