George Mason University

In an increasingly globalized world characterized by rapid change and progress, business communities need innovative scholarship that challenges established convention and gives practitioners, policymakers, and cultural influencers cutting-edge, evidence-based findings and tools to help them manage, lead, innovate, and excel in their careers and organizations. Scholarship such as this is produced at business schools with a vibrant, innovative PhD program in Business.

The PhD program in Business is designed to address such needs.  The PhD Program in Business will enhance GMU’s mission by increasing the number of doctoral programs, research intensity, and university-wide interdisciplinary research and collaboration. By providing access to regional research sites and the diverse Mason community, our students will emerge from the program prepared to study many of the organizational problems within the Commonwealth as well as the world. 

This program is designed as an overarching degree with four concentrations from which the students must pick one.  The concentrations will be in Organizational Behavior, Strategic Management, Information Systems, and Operations Management.  Each student will declare their concentration prior to admission, in order for the school and faculty to properly prepare courses for degree completion. While some courses will be in common for all students taking the PhD in Business, each concentration will contain unique courses.  The goal with this model is both to simplify the overall administration of the program (one degree), but allowing the students the relevant domain knowledge to succeed in their specific field (required concentration).

Total credits: 72

The PhD in Business includes courses in the Business Core, within each concentration, and then credits towards dissertation research. Within each concentration there are required and elective courses.