Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Business Administration

  Institution: Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur

Programme Description

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Business Administration prepares candidates to acquire knowledge and skills necessary to function at the highest academic and professional levels. Exposure in the areas of management will be in-depth, whereby graduates will focus on a specialised area and will work to further develop their conceptual and intellectual knowledge and methodological tools necessary to design and conduct independent research.

Duration of Study

Full time : 3 – 5 years
Part time : 4 – 6 years

Entry Requirements

• A Master degree in Business Administration or related fields;
• Satisfactory verbal proficiency in English;
• For local candidates, they are required to have credit in English Language paper at SPM level or equivalent and have obtained at least BAND 3 at MUET;
• For international candidates, they need to have at least 550 in TOEFL or band 6.0 in IELTS

Key Features

• Every PhD student in Business Administration is required to write a thesis as a  requirement for the award of the doctoral degree. This is an academic research whereby a student has to complete a thesis in the specific area selected
• Students will be supervised by a Supervisory Committee (in related field) led by a Chairman with two other joint supervisors as determined by IUKL
• A student has to write and complete a thesis between 80,000 words and 120,000 words (double-spaced). Thesis evaluation will be done by two external examiners and one internal examiner

Learning/Research methadology

Course Structure

Accounting or Finance

Phase I

• Research Methodology & Qualitative Analysis (6 Credit Hours)
• Quantitative Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
• Seminar on Current Issues in Accounting/ Finance (3 Credit Hours)

Phase II – Proposal Defense

Phase III – Thesis

Marketing or Organizational Behavior

Phase I

• Research Methodology & Qualitative Analysis (6 Credit Hours)
• Seminar on Current Issues in Marketing orOrganizational Behavior (3 Credit Hours)

Phase II – Proposal Defense

Phase III – Thesis

Research Areas

• Accounting
• Finance
• Marketing
• Organizational Behavior

Source :Infrastructure University Kaula lumpur.