Program Details - Purdue Business

Program Requirements

Complete 36 credit hours
Serve as a teaching or research assistant
Yearly paper presentation
Pass preliminary examination
Write and defend dissertation

Funding

Funding is available for up to five years, provided the student maintains satisfactory progress in the program. Funding beyond five years is up to the discretion of the department.

For more information, review our funding package.

Curriculum

The Strategic Management doctoral curriculum consists of 36 total credit hours completed over four-five years. The curriculum is broken down into four focus areas: major specialization, research methods (choose one), minor specialization, and managerial skills. Managerial skills courses may be waived for individuals who have completed equivalent master’s-level coursework. Please contact our Admissions Specialist for more information.

For detailed descriptions of the courses, please visit Purdue’s online Course Catalog.

Major Specialization Courses: 12 credit hours

Credits	Course Title
3	Capabilities, Vertical Alliances, and New Product Development
3	Corporate Strategy
3	Collaborative Strategy
3	Psycho-Cognitive Foundations of Strategy
3	Economic Perspective on Business Strategy
3	Analyses of Value Generation Versus Value Capture in Interfirm Partnerships
3	Strategic Human Capital and Entrepreneurship
3	Advanced Topics on Structure, Inter(intra)-firm organizational dynamics, and Innovation

Research Methods - Applied Statistics Track: 12 Total Credits

Credits	Course Title
	Probability and Statistics
	Econometrics I
	Econometrics II
	Time Series Econometrics or Microeconometrics
	Research methods topic (2) Choose from: Applied statistics, Economics, Analysis of Algorithms and Optimization

Research Methods - Advanced Statistics / Econometrics Track: 12 Total Credits

Credits	Course Title
	Econometrics II
	Time Series Econometrics
	Microeconometrics
	Seminar in Quantitative Methods in Management Research
	Nonparametric Methods for Research
	Design of Experiments
	Time Series and Applications
	Sampling and Survey Techniques
	Applied Multivariate Analysis
	Advanced Statistical Methodology
	Mathematical Statistics I

Minor Specialization Courses: 6 Total Credit Hours

To satisfy this requirement, students should complete 6 credit hours from related fields. Minors can be designed by students with help from their advisor.

Managerial Skills: 6 Total Credit Hours

Credits	Course Title
	Financial Accounting
	Financial Management
	Marketing Management
	Operations Management
	Behavior in Organizations

Graduate Assistantship Appointments

Strategic Management PhD students will participate as a graduate research assistant (RA) or graduate teaching assistant (TA) each semester for four years.

Graduate Research Assistant (RA)

RA roles involve a PhD student in a faculty research project.

Graduate Teaching Assistant (TA)

TA roles often begin with tasks such as grading and helping in computer lab sessions and progress to course delivery responsibilities. All students are required to teach at least one course during their time in the program.

Placements

Graduates of Purdue’s Strategic Management PhD program have gone on to secure placements at the following institutions:

University of Utah
University of Florida
Louisiana State
University of Hawaii
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Coastal Carolina University
Tilburg University
Hong Kong Baptist University
McMaster University
Chinese University of Hong Kong
University of Pennsylvania
Vanderbilt University
Northern Illinois University
University of New South Wales

About the Department

businessphd@purdue.edu

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