Queen's School of Business PhD program prepares you to take a leading role in the next generation of scholars and researchers. In a world that increasingly values knowledge, you will have the skills and expertise to make a significant and lasting contribution.

The doctoral program is tailored to your interests. It features a series of challenging courses, research opportunities, and the preparation and defense of a thesis on an original topic. It is based on a major/minor structure that allows you to hone your analytic and research skills and offers the tools to generate advanced research.

The School of Business is home to a strong research environment. As a doctoral student, you collaborate with leading faculty who are widely published in peer-reviewed journals, giving you the chance to deeply explore issues that interest you. And you can attend seminars led by visiting scholars from universities around the world. Best of all, you work in a supportive environment that sets you up for success.

Program Structure

In the doctoral program you select:

one major, comprising five courses and a comprehensive examination chosen from:
- accounting
- finance
- management information systems
- marketing
- organizational behaviour
- management science
- business economics
one minor, comprising three graduate courses from within or outside of Queen’s School of Business
one elective
three quantitative / research / methods courses
a non-credit teaching course

Timeline to Completion

The PhD program begins each year in September and normally requires four to five years of full-time study.* In addition to regular course work, the first term is spent in a research workshop, where you work closely with faculty to develop research skills.

In year two, you complete course requirements and take a comprehensive examination during the summer. In years three and four, you develop and defend a thesis proposal and then complete and defend the dissertation.

timeline

*There is no provision for part-time study.

Queen's School of Business Accreditations

All Queen's School of Business degree programs have been accredited since 1998 by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), the world's largest business school accreditation body. Queen's was the first university in Ontario to be AACSB-approved.

Queen's School of Business achieved unconditional EQUIS accreditation in 2006 and is a member of EFMD – the European Foundation for Management Development.