Doctor of Philosophy

Course Overview

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is an academic degree, typically the highest awarded by any university. In the PhD programme candidates are driven by an urge for systematic persuasion, acquisition and sharing of new knowledge for the benefit of the larger community. While this motive of the doctoral candidate sounds altruistic, his preceding behaviour is always laden with a passion for new knowledge. Doctoral candidates should be obsessed with a passion to construct new knowledge in areas of relevance and high priority as aptly ingrained in the University's motto 'Among all that arise, knowledge is the greatest.'

PhD Learning Goals

Those qualified to follow the PhD programme should be able to:

1. Recognize current, complex and controversial issues in the field of Management and analyse them using techniques relevant to professional practice.
2. Reflect with designing and carrying out independent research contributing significantly towards the generation of new knowledge, training graduate students in research methodology, and supervising and evaluating original research carried out by others in the field of specialization.
3. Reach specialist and non-specialist groups with ideas, views and conclusions and communicate them clearly and effectively.
4. Realize the importance of making judgments on complex issues in the field of Management, and exercise personal judgment and responsibility even in unpredictable situations in the professional environment.
5. Reinforce ethics in doing research and be able to disseminate new knowledge by publications in peer reviewed indexed journals.

The above objectives are linked to the learning objectives of each module.