The Manchester DBA Program By Alliance Manchester Business School |Top Universities
Program Duration

48 monthsProgram duration

Tuitionfee

13,125 GBPTuition Fee/year

Scholarship

YesScholarships

Main Subject Area

Business and Management StudiesMain Subject Area

Program overview

Main Subject

Business and Management Studies

Degree

Other

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

The Alliance MBS DBA is 'research in action' - an opportunity to gain a doctoral degree while you continue working. It offers you the chance to tackle an important, unresolved business and managerial problem in a rigorous and systematic way and to contribute to your organisation’s success while developing academic knowledge and theories. The Manchester DBA programme is a mixture of online and residential coursework and interaction, combined with a supervisor-guided dissertation project. It is structured over four years with a focus on the coursework components in Years 1 and 2. The programme offers flexibility in that you can supplement, and in some cases substitute, your Alliance MBS coursework with elective modules available elsewhere.

Program overview

Main Subject

Business and Management Studies

Degree

Other

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

The Alliance MBS DBA is 'research in action' - an opportunity to gain a doctoral degree while you continue working. It offers you the chance to tackle an important, unresolved business and managerial problem in a rigorous and systematic way and to contribute to your organisation’s success while developing academic knowledge and theories. The Manchester DBA programme is a mixture of online and residential coursework and interaction, combined with a supervisor-guided dissertation project. It is structured over four years with a focus on the coursework components in Years 1 and 2. The programme offers flexibility in that you can supplement, and in some cases substitute, your Alliance MBS coursework with elective modules available elsewhere.

Admission requirements

Undergraduate

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The basic DBA entry requirements are: A Bachelor's Honours degree (normally equivalent to a UK First Class or 2:1); A Master's or MBA degree (a minimum final grade equivalent to a UK 60%; or B; or GPA of 3.0 out 4.0); A minimum of 6 years full-time management experience, showing significant career progression; Spoken and written English-language competency equivalent to IELTS: 7.0 or TOEFL: 623 paper-based (or 106 internet-based). Meeting these requirements does not guarantee entry to the programme, but failure to meet them lowers the likelihood of acceptance. In limited circumstances, there is a degree of flexibility on some aspects of the requirements which is at the DBA Programme Director's discretion.
4 Years
Sep

Tuition fee and scholarships

Domestic Students

13,125 GBP
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International Students

13,125 GBP
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Established in 1965,  Alliance Manchester Business School  is one of the UK’s first two business schools aspiring to deliver inventive business and management solutions through world-class research and teaching.With triple accreditation from AACSB International, AMBA and EQUIS, Alliance Manchester Business School provides world-class, industry-focused education to undergraduates, postgraduates and executives across the globe.

The centres in Dubai, Hong Kong, São Paolo, Shanghai and Singapore open up a world of opportunities for our students, researchers and clients. All over the world, we engage with businesses of all sizes to share expertise and form rewarding partnerships.

On the  Manchester Full-time MBA  we ensure you get a thorough grounding in business theory, and give you the opportunity to put it into practice from day one with international projects, live consultancy work and internships with high profile, multinational corporations.

Our unique, hands-on approach to learning gives you more client-facing hours than almost any other  MBA programme  - nearly six months’ worth - so you can test theories immediately in real world situations and won’t feel completely removed from the commercial environment.

Take your international experience up a level: As well as the International Exchange Programme, benefit from an additional study abroad opportunity by choosing to take an elective offered on our Global (Part-time) MBA Programme . You could find yourself studying alongside professionals on our Part-time MBA in one of our global centres.

If you have the determination to build your own networks and develop your own career opportunities, our dedicated  MBA  Careers Service have the contacts, resources and expert guidance to help you achieve your career goals.

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