UMass Boston - PhD in Business Administration Program

The University of Massachusetts Boston is currently inviting applications for its PhD in Business Administration, Organizations and Social Change (OSC) track and Information Systems for Data Science track for Fall 2021. The deadline is February 1, 2021 but we are evaluating applications on a rolling basis.

The PhD in Business Administration fills the need for advanced business study to better understand these complex issues. The doctoral program in business administration at the College of Management at UMass Boston is a selective full-time program that trains students for academic and professional careers. Candidates devise their own course of study, with guidance from a faculty committee, and undertake in-depth study in one of three tracks.

• Organizations and Social Change
• Information Systems for Data Science
• Finance

The Organizations and Social Change PhD program has a strong reputation for its distinctive focus on topics at the intersection of business and society. Our PhD students come from varied backgrounds, with degrees in management, sociology, economics, and political science. The program examines how business and organizations structure societies, economies, and our identities, sometimes in harmful ways, but also how business and organizations can be engines for positive change. 

The Information Systems for Data Sciences PhD program is positioned at the intersection of technology, business, and strategy, and allows students to have a holistic view of data science and the role it plays in competition. Students will get introduced to a variety of state-of-art research streams in information systems and data science, with a relative focus on both data analytical techniques from a design science perspective and the application and management of data analytics in business settings from an organizational perspective.