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PhD - Management Education
This Management Education PhD specialization provides opportunities for skill development in advanced teaching techniques, including course design, learning theory, and classroom assessment, along with deep analysis and research in management theories and principles. It is one of the few doctoral programs available that focuses specifically on preparing business and management experts to teach at the postsecondary level. As part of this specialization, you may apply for and receive a Post-Master's Certificate in College Teaching from Capella, as well as your PhD. People who choose this specialization are often business professionals preparing to become postsecondary business instructors or postsecondary business educators seeking advancement. While meeting the growing demand for postsecondary business faculty, prepare yourself to educate our future business leaders.
DBA - Global Operations and Supply Chain Management
This professional doctorate offers a defined program and built-in checkpoints designed to facilitate completion of both your coursework and dissertation in three years. Advance your knowledge of global operations and supply chain management while completing an applied dissertation project that allows you to make an immediate, practical contribution to your organization. The curriculum, which reflects the major knowledge areas of leading professional organizations, emphasizes global environment assessment; supply chain management strategy and functions; demand forecasting; and global logistics. Online courseroom discussions, specially designed networking sites, and face-to-face weekend residencies provide ongoing opportunities to build professional relationshipsand share knowledge with other business leaders around the country. You will also have the opportunity to participate in an international field experience, designed to provide multinational networking, increased cultural literacy, and a global operations learning experience. People who choose this specialization are often pursuing consulting, leadership, or teaching positions in operations, supply chain, purchasing, manufacturing, or related fields.Residency Requirements: Three, three-day residential colloquia. Review of this specialization is pending in AL, AZ, FL, GA, KY, MN, ND, SC, VA, WA, and WI.
PhD - General Organization and Management
Delve deeply into the management areas that match your professional interests and goals with this flexible organization and management PhD specialization. Required courses offer advanced study in such areas as organizational theory and practice, research methodology, statistical research techniques, and management strategies and techniques, preparing you to contribute to the field through your doctoral research. Focus your study by choosing from a broad range of electives in such areas as leadership, human resource management, and information technology management. People who choose this specialization are often pursuing higher education faculty positions or organizational leadership or consulting positions in a broad range of government, military, and nonprofit fields.
PhD - Project Management
This business-focused doctoral specialization is designed for project management professionals who want to contribute to their field through doctoral research and are looking for a deeper understanding of how to manage projects throughout an enterprise. the specialization provides a comprehensive overview of key business and organizational topics, including accounting and financial management, marketing strategy, and organizational theory in addition to advanced project management course work. People who choose this specialization often wish to consult, lead, or teach in the field of project management from a cross-functional, strategic perspective.
PhD - Information Technology Project Management
This IT-focused Project Management doctoral specialization offers the opportunity to develop the advanced IT, project management, and business knowledge of a leader. Project managers play an increasingly strategic role within their companies and are being recognized as leadership track employees. The specialization is also designed to help you develop solid research skills, culminating in a dissertation that advances the body of knowledge in this field. People who choose this specialization are often pursuing consulting, leadership, or faculty positions in IT project management.
Ph.D. in Management - General
One of the only distance-learning doctoral programs in this field, Walden's Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences allows you to design a program of study that incorporates your unique expertise and interests. You'll gain the knowledge and credentials to have a greater impact in your profession by focusing on scholarly research you can apply immediately.
The program includes: faculty-guided research based on your professional interests and background, online courses focused on building your scholarly skills, and face-to-face residencies that prepare you for each phase of your program. Specializations are available in Accounting, Engineering Management, Finance, Operations Research, Leadership and Organizational Change, Self-Designed, Learning Management, Information Systems Management, and Knowledge Management.
Ph.D. in Management - Leadership and Organizational Change
This specialization prepares you to promote effective leadership development, interpersonal relationships, and group and organizational dynamics, which in turn, lead to higher performance levels within an organization.
One of the only distance-learning doctoral programs in this field, Walden's Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences allows you to design a program of study that incorporates your unique expertise and interests. By focusing on scholarly research you can apply immediately, you'll gain the knowledge and credentials to have a greater impact in your profession.
Ph.D. in Management - Accounting
One of the only distance-learning doctoral programs in this field, Walden's Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences allows you to design a program of study that incorporates your unique expertise and interests. By focusing on scholarly research you can apply immediately, you'll gain the knowledge and credentials to have a greater impact in your profession.
The Accounting specialization is designed to help accountants and auditors broaden their knowledge and business skills in various areas, including budget analysis, auditing, international accounting, financial and fraud examination, management accounting, accounting information system consulting, forensic accounting, and preparation services and tax consulting.
Note: Students must complete a college-level course in differential and integral calculus. Students who do not have an undergraduate or master's degree in accounting must complete MGMT 3104 Accounting Principles or equivalent.
Ph.D. in Management - Knowledge Management
One of the only distance-learning doctoral programs in this field, Walden's Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences allows you to design a program of study that incorporates your unique expertise and interests. You'll gain the knowledge and credentials to have a greater impact in your profession by focusing on scholarly research you can apply immediately.
This specialization will help you gain a competitive advantage by understanding how to identify, acquire, distribute, store, analyze, and use explicit and tacit knowledge to enhance organizational productivity and competitiveness in the new field of knowledge management.
Ph.D. in Management - Learning Management
One of the only distance-learning doctoral programs in this field, Walden's Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences allows you to design a program of study that incorporates your unique expertise and interests. You'll gain the knowledge and credentials to have a greater impact in your profession by focusing on scholarly research you can apply immediately.
Learning Management is focused on developing learning organizations and the education of participants, including the deployment of corporate universities. This specialization prepares you to develop innovative solutions to the most critical organizational challenges through the human side of sharing, creating, and using knowledge.
Ph.D. in Management - Operations Research
One of the only distance-learning doctoral programs in this field, Walden's Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences allows you to design a program of study that incorporates your unique expertise and interests. This specialization (often referred to as management science or by the acronym OR/MS) prepares you to understand new and innovative approaches to operations management. You'll gain the knowledge and credentials to have a greater impact in your profession by focusing on scholarly research you can apply immediately.
Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration - Nonprofit Management and Leadership (Course-Based)
A society and its individuals cannot prosper without constant attention to democratic and social institutions. This specialization investigates these issues and prepares you to become a knowledgeable, social-change agent through scholarly inquiry, applied research, and effective participation in these institutions. The course-based option is a structured program of study comprised of online courses. You will follow a specific plan for completion and may be eligible to graduate in three years (this varies) as a student.
Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision - Nonprofit Management and Leadership
In the Nonprofit Leadership and Management concentration you will build your knowledge of the history and types of nonprofit organizations. Learn how nonprofits operate, from finance and budgeting to volunteer and board management. Gain the knowledge and experience to assume a leadership role in a clinical, community, nonprofit, academic, or research settings, or to work as a counselor educator. Gain the skills required to work as a program leader, counselor, consultant, supervisor, volunteer, or board member in nonprofits, or to successfully interface with nonprofit organizations. Reach a significant milestone in your career as you earn one of the most highly respected degrees in the profession. Study advanced teaching, supervision, and counseling skills and further develop your expertise in a relevant area. The Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision does not prepare an individual to become a licensed counseling professional and is not a licensure program. It is not accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). However, the program was developed to be in line with national standards for counselor education. The university is not yet able to apply for CACREP accreditation since it is a new program. Students will be notified at such time if the program becomes accredited in the future.
Ph.D. in Management - Self-Designed
You may undertake a Self-Designed specialization within the existing KAM curriculum structure of the General Program if you have highly focused learning and professional interests. While adhering to the quality and rigor of Walden's General Program, this allows maximum flexibility in designing a program that will most closely match your professional goals. The program includes: online courses focused on building your scholarly skills, faculty-guided research based on your professional interests and background, and face-to-face residencies that prepare you for each phase of your program. Specializations are available in Accounting, Finance, Engineering Management, Operations Research, Leadership and Organizational Change, Self-Designed, Information Systems Management, Learning Management and Knowledge Management.
Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) - Global Supply Chain Management
Walden's Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) degree program is designed for experienced business professionals who want to translate their industry expertise into leadership positions as consultants or as executives within their organizations. Developed with insights from experienced faculty members and leading business practitioners, the program emphasizes in-depth knowledge of both theory and applied research, the ability to manage positive social change, and advanced decision-making and leadership skills. Explore new ways of applying technology to cut costs, increase customer satisfaction, and open new business opportunities. You will learn the systems required in order to identify sources of personnel and material, and how to help ensure that supply chains conform to the highest global standards with the Global Supply Chain Management specialization.
Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) - Entrepreneurship
Walden's Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) degree program is designed for experienced business professionals who want to translate their industry expertise into leadership positions as executives or as consultants within their organizations. The program emphasizes in-depth knowledge of both theory and applied research, advanced decision-making and leadership skills, and the ability to manage positive social change developed with insights from experienced faculty members and leading business practitioners. With the Entrepreneurship specialization, you will build your entrepreneurial skills and knowledge with a learning experience that combines theory with practical strategies drawn from real-world situations, such as managing risk and change, identifying market opportunities, raising capital, and encouraging innovation.
Doctor of Psychology - Mediation and Conflict Resolution Specialization
Be an advocate for peace. Complete your Doctor of Psychology, Mediation and Conflict Resolution Specialization degree at University of the Rockies. You will participate in seminars and residencies where you utilize systems theory and dynamic communications in real-world experiential exercises in this Doctoral program. You will learn the techniques consultants use to influence leaders and to avert confrontation between people. Advocate and defend mediation strategies. Perfect your education with a residency in which you compose a long-term plan for conflict resolution. Apply your consulting skills and expertise to effect positive change in families, communities and organizations. This Doctoral curriculum empowers you to advance your career, whether you choose to employ your skills in business, or continue your path to become a licensed psychologist.
Doctor of Psychology - Organizational Consulting Specialization
Be your best – specialize in organizational consulting.Take your ideas, and your career, to the top. Earn your Doctor of Psychology, Organizational Consulting Specialization degree from University of the Rockies. Explore a broad spectrum of organizational consulting tools that apply emphasis on the growth of an organization. Learn to consult with multiple organizations, acquiring best practices from one that will help others. Become an expert in evaluating the health of an organization whether large or small. Apply cutting-edge psychological principles to diagnose organizations while focused work with statistics will allow you to analyze information to measure organizational performance. Advanced courses in assessment, strategic development, team building, transformational leadership will allow you to perfect the skills to implement change within an organization.
Doctor of Psychology - Sports and Performance Psychology Specialization
Earn your Doctor of Psychology, Sports and Performance Psychology Specialization from University of the Rockies. This degree program is the pinnacle of performance enhancement education. While the doctoral curriculum is wide and diverse, your ultimate goal is to create actualization, awareness, self-mastery, and peak experience for both teams and individuals. You will perfect the techniques to make people more effective through advanced courses and seminars in human development, coaching, cultural diversity, and mind-body practices. You will be well-equipped to work in academics, continue research, and pursue lead consulting roles in highperformance environments with this ultimate degree. Be your best when you specialize in performance psychology. Empower people with advanced strategies to enhance human performance.
Doctor of Business Administration - Management
Argosy's Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) online program offered by the College of Business features a curriculum focusing on practical business concepts and active research. The specialization in Management is designed to teach students the science of management, advanced topics in organizational behavior, and leadership in the global economy. The DBA program is designed to enhance your professional ability to meet the dynamic needs of modern organizations and academic institutions. As a student in the DBA program, you can expand your critical knowledge through professional development while attaining the credentials essential to management consulting, organizational leadership and higher education instruction. You will conduct research projects of actual change efforts that will enhance your evaluation skills, during the program. You will join one of the largest graduate student communities in the nation and enjoy a collegial, supportive academic environment as a student at Argosy University. You will take classes online in our user-friendly, interactive classroom and learn from seasoned faculty members.
Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) - Healthcare Management and Leadership
CalUniversity's DBA in Healthcare Management and Leadership is designed to prepare students for careers in the fields of managed care supervision, patient care management, healthcare services manager, regulatory analysis, and resource specialist. Doctoral candidates also develop talent in research and writing skills that accompany high-level of responsibility in the academic and business environments while learning the most advanced decision-making skills and techniques. It enables students to improve their analytical ability, strategic thinking, process implementation, and makes them think beyond industry applications. It is a professional doctorate degree designed to help students perform applied research and transforms mature Learners into Leaders. Students pursing this Emphasis will learn about achieving Leadership in healthcare management, healthcare information systems, healthcare economics, and the ethics of healthcare. Individuals thinking about career advancement in management and consulting and currently working in the healthcare industry will receive more recognition and credibility from the market place.
Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) - Entrepreneurship and Business Management
CalUniversity's DBA in Entrepreneurship and Business Management is a professional doctorate degree designed to help students perform applied research and transforms mature Learners into Leaders. It is designed to prepare students for careers in the fields of business management, venture analysis, business development consulting, business relations management, business banker, and business broker. It enables students to improve their strategic thinking, analytical ability, process implementation, and makes them think beyond industry applications. Students pursing this Emphasis will learn about new venture creation, international entrepreneurship, strategic and business entrepreneurship and economic principles of entrepreneurship. Individuals with inclination and aspiration for leadership and new business ventures and are ready for a business management and consulting career will receive more credibility and recognition from the market place. Doctoral candidates also develop talent in research and writing skills that accompany high-level of responsibility in the academic and business environments while learning the most advanced decision-making skills and techniques.
Doctor of Management
The Doctor of Management (DM) degree program at Colorado Technical University's Institute for Advanced Studies is designed to help students gain an understanding of current management theory, become subject-matter experts in a specialized area of management, develop a leadership style, effectively manage change, and predict future trends. This three-year doctoral program encourages the professional development of managers through action research, mentoring and practical projects, enabling them to make key leadership contributions in their area of expertise. Combining online instruction with intensive residential sessions, the Doctor of Management is taught in an executive format, each lasting four days at the CTU Colorado Springs campus.
Doctor of Management - Emerging Media
Now is the perfect time to become an expert and help shape the future of emerging media. The Doctor of Management with a concentration in Emerging Media (DM-EM), offered through CTU's Institute for Advanced Studies, is a multidisciplinary program designed to encourage your professional development in management through mentoring, practical projects, and action research, enabling you to make key leadership contributions in this incredibly fast-moving field. You'll develop a leadership style that allows you to critically analyze, evaluate, and solve problems within emerging media moving from research to content specialization to the ability to manage change. Courses are taught using Colorado Technical University's Professional Learning Model™ in an executive format: each course combines an active online component with an intensive residential session held twice a year and lasting four days. Many newly formed as well as traditional career tracks can benefit from this degree. The program includes twelve 5-credit instructional courses, taken one per quarter for three years, plus a research-and-writing class taken each quarter.
Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration - Management
This specialization is for the manager-generalist who must understand how the key parts of an organization function and interrelate. The need has never been greater for business leaders who can contribute to the knowledge base of contemporary business by making strategically adroit linkages between theory and practice.Learners gain the skills to meet that need through in-depth exposure to the insights offered by the world's leading organizations, rigorous reflection on their professional experiences, review of classic and cutting edge theory and research, and mastery of methods and techniques to assess, identify, understand and communicate strategically critical knowledge. Learners also gain the conceptual overview of modern theory and practice in each of the key areas of management. Effective enterprise results when the manager-generalist organizes the efforts of specialists in order to accomplish organizational outcomes.
Doctor of Business Administration - Management
The Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) serves as preparation for advanced positions of leadership in business, philanthropy,government, and policy and advocacy organizations. D.B.A. learners gain the skills to advance to top leadership positions and to retain them through in-depth exposure to the insights offered by the world's leading organizations, rigorous reflection on their professional experiences, review of classic and cutting edge theory and research, and mastery of methods and techniques to identify, understand, apply, and communicate strategically critical knowledge. Learners gain the conceptual overview of modern theory and practice in each of the key areas of management. The Management specialization is for the manager-generalist who must understand how the key parts of an organization function and interrelate. In order to accomplish organizational outcomes, effective enterprise results when the manager-generalist organizes the efforts of specialists.
Doctor of Business Administration - Organizational Leadership
The Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) emphasizes the application of research as a means to solve organizational problems and to devise and to execute strategy that is effective and ethical. The D.B.A. degree program serves as preparation for advanced positions of leadership in business, government, philanthropy, and policy and advocacy organizations. Organizational Leadership (OL) appeals to Learners who are focused on developing the competencies required of organizational leaders. The strategically crafted courses serve to enhance Learner's commitment to the understanding and practice of leadership. the NCU Leadership course of study is designed for those who aspire to become collaborative change agents grounded in research, facilitated by leadership practitioner faculty and customized for maximum professional impact.
Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration - Organizational Leadership
By making strategically adroit linkages between theory and practice, the need has never been greater for business leaders who can contribute to the knowledge base of contemporary business. Learners gain the skills to meet that need through in-depth exposure to the insights offered by the world's leading organizations, rigorous reflection on their professional experiences, review of classic and cutting-edge theory and research, and mastery of methods and techniques to assess, identify, understand and communicate strategically critical knowledge. Organizational Leadership (OL) appeals to Learners who are focused on developing the competencies required of organizational leaders. The strategically crafted courses serve to enhance Learner's commitment to the understanding and practice of leadership. Grounded in research, facilitated by leadership practitioner faculty and customized for maximum professional impact, the NCU Leadership course of study is designed for those who aspire to become collaborative change agents.
Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)Project Management
This specialization explores principles, concepts, tools, and techniques to improve organizational effectiveness and project performance. Learners examine all aspects of managing and overseeing business projects, including budget management, cost estimates, risk assessment, cost control, bid negotiation and contracts, and performance reporting critical to the success of any enterprise. The specialization focuses on leadership, management and team building in the project/program environment. Learners will examine strategies relating to managing multiple projects as well as the concepts of earned value project management. Learners will complete a final written research project, demonstrating the ability to conduct an investigation on a work place problem, identify an area for critique, intervention, justify, and recommend a plan of preventative action.
Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration - Project Management
This interdisciplinary specialization from NorthCentral University appeals to professionals in human resources, business administration, non-profit administration, and related fields, whose professional goal may be organizational consulting or a senior leadership position in government, corporate, not-for-profit, educational or community organizations. The focus of this specialization is to provide the Learner with a theoretical research approach to strategic planning in all phases of organizational leadership including building organization capacity and sustainability. This specialization serves to enhance the understanding and practice of organizational leadership using an interdisciplinary approach between business and education theory and research.
Doctor of Education (EdD) - Athletic Administration
The Doctor of Education degree with a specialization in Athletic Administration from NorthCentral University is designed to allow learners the ability to increase their understanding of the field of Athletic Administration through practical application and doctoral research on the influences that impact sports and athletics. The program provides educators with leadership expertise in this growing field. The program includes a combination of research methods, science-based academics, and real-world experience with an emphasis on the ever-changing financial, political, legal, and marketing concerns within the sports industry.
Doctor of Philosophy in Education - Athletic Administration
The Doctor of Philosophy in Athletic Administration from NorthCentral University is a rigorous, research-based degree program requiring learners to apply educational concepts and management principles in the planning, organizing, directing, and leading of sports and athletics. The curriculum allows for a multifaceted exploration aligned with industry standards because this growing field requires scholar-practitioners with proficiency across a wide range of skills. Emphasis is placed on the production, facilitation, promotion, and organization of sport products and services. In this program, learners will further their knowledge of competencies in athletic administration and coaching; build an understanding of educational theories related to this field; and explore working problems within the profession to discern solutions.