Business Administration, Doctorate

The Executive Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) is a part-time executive doctoral program designed to equip executives and senior managers with scientific methods that address complex industry and organizational challenges. This STEM-designated program integrates and leverages Drexel LeBow’s over 120-year history of experiential learning, providing a broad theoretical perspective of current business issues as well as a strong foundation in applied research and analysis to enrich critical knowledge, skills and abilities. Through an integrative framework of empirical exploration and evidence-based decision-making, executives learn the science of business and develop successful, data-driven strategies and solutions that can be applied to their respective organizations.

Our program’s cohort model enables candidates to complete the program in two and half years (10 consecutive quarters) using a lockstep executive residency and online format with the targeted residency structure designed to fit into professionals’ busy schedules. Executive DBA candidates complete a minimum of 60.0 credits beyond the master’s degree. As part of the accelerated nature of the program and its focus on complex business challenges, the Executive DBA employs a mentored dissertation model. Applicants are expected to have a minimum of 10 years of industry and/or leadership experience and possess a master’s degree in a related field of study.