Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Business Administration - Decision Sciences Specialization

Drexel's PhD in Business program prepares candidates for careers in academic research and teaching. The PhD in Business includes specializations in accounting, decision sciences, finance, marketing and management (organizational behavior and strategy). PhD degrees are delivered as full-time, on-campus degrees and normally require about five years to complete. The LeBow faculty takes a hands-on approach to research and mentoring students on a daily basis. The support of LeBow’s collaborative, collegial research environment provides our doctoral students with tremendous research opportunities. The Decision Sciences Department encompasses three academic fields of knowledge: Production/Operations Management (POM), Management Science/Operations Research (MS/OR) and Applied Probability and Statistics (STAT). The PhD in Business with a specialization in Decision Sciences prepares students for highly rewarding careers in academic institutions, business, and government. Although most students tend to focus on the functional area of POM as their primary field of competence, with substantive emphases on MS/OR and STAT as tools for performing rigorous academic research, there is sufficient flexibility in the program to allow individuals to customize their doctoral coursework, depending upon their particular needs and interests. The faculty members within the Decision Sciences Department are strongly committed to academic excellence and are known, nationally and internationally, as experts in their respective fields. They are actively involved in high quality scholarly research in several diverse areas such as supply chain decision models, technology planning and implementation, production planning and scheduling, mathematical programming, financial modeling, quality function deployment, Bayesian statistics, statistical quality control, reliability of statistical software, etc. Students working closely with the faculty develop and sharpen their own research skills and are expected to make significant future contributions to their respective areas of knowledge.