Ph. D. in Management – Department of Management

The DoM PhD program aims to attract prospective scholars from various walks of life including academia as well as corporate. The department possesses the capability in guiding scholars across multiple areas of specialization such as

• General Management
• Marketing
• Finance
• Operations
• Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management
• Economics
• Public Health and Healthcare Management
• Sociology of Management
  The DoM Bengaluru offers both full-time and part-time PhD programs. The part time program offers working professionals with the flexibility of balancing both their professional and program requirements.

The Ph.D program at Department of Management is structured along globally acknowledged processes. There are 4 significant milestones to be covered as part of the program. These four stages can be completed in a minimum of 4 years and a maximum of 8 years. While the part-time scholars are allowed up to a maximum of 8 years to complete their Ph.D, the full-time PhD program requires the scholars to focus on their research and aim to complete their Ph.D in a maximum of 4 years.

All scholars are required to undertake 8 courses of which 4 are core and the rest are electives. Keeping in mind the availability of the part-time scholars pertaining their job commitments, the classes for the course work will tentatively be conducted during the weekends. After the completion of the four core courses, the optional courses will be floated on dates that will be decided later. Each course will be of 30 hours followed by an exam.

After completion of a minimum of 8 courses, the scholars would move to the second stage of their Ph.D which includes formation of a dissertation committee and writing their comprehensive qualification exam (CQE). The CQE is a 1 month take home exam, which seeks to test the readiness of scholars to take up their thesis research and is designed to assist scholars in narrowing the focus of research. The written exam is followed by an oral viva by the committee members.

The 3rd stage is the proposal defense where the scholars are expected to defend their thesis proposal in an open forum and a special invited external examiner. Subsequent to the successful defense, the scholar can focus on executing their research with constant support from the dissertation committee.

This is the final stage of the Ph.D wherein the scholar would defend his/her dissertation in an open forum and a special invited external examiner. In the interim period, the scholars are required to demonstrate their ability through successful journal publications.

The applications will be screened by the Committee on Postgraduate Programmes (CPGP) and shortlisted applicants will be called for an entrance test followed by an interview.

Admission will be based on performance in the written test and personal interview. Both the written exam and the interview are usually conducted on the same day and the results are usually announced within a month time.

Each applicant is required to submit the following:

• Application form duly filled in all aspects,
• His or her degree certificates and grade / mark sheets (self-attested copies),
• A Statement of Purpose (describing his or her research interests), and up to three areas of interest in the order of preference for selecting the major area courses for the Ph.D. Should it be required, the Committee may request additional evidence, such as letters of recommendation, copies of claimed publications, etc.
• A Demand Draft for INR 1000 towards Registration fee, in favour of “Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham“, payable at Kollam.

All the aforementioned documents are to be sent as a soft copy via email to asbphd_admission@blr.amrita.edu by and as a hard copy to the address of correspondence given below, latest by the 5^th of September 2019.

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