Southern’s STEM Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) bridges the gap between business disciplines and STEM fields, allowing students to leverage insights and methodologies from both areas to tackle complex business challenges and develop business resilience.
Modern Business Demands Modern Thinking
Events like the recent global health crisis, natural disasters, and the 2009 market crash have highlighted the critical importance of business resilience. These events have prompted organizations worldwide to prioritize planning for unexpected disruptions. The future of business resilience demands broader adaptability.
Elevate Your Expertise for Application and Impact
Unlike traditional Ph.D. programs, the STEM DBA emphasizes practical application. You'll learn to prepare for the unexpected and guide your organization through the critical phases of resilience: stress absorption, recovery of critical functions, healing, and ultimately thriving in new circumstances. Our project-based coursework integrates knowledge to tackle resilience challenges at individual, group, corporate, and societal levels using rigorous research, analysis, evaluation, creation, and synthesis.
Bridging STEM, Business, and Research
The STEM Doctorate in Business Administration seamlessly merges STEM disciplines with advanced business practices through:
- Alignment with STEM disciplines, emphasizing critical competencies essential for business development, scientific methodologies, and data-driven decision-making.
- Experiential and project-based learning, ensuring knowledge translates into effective practices that address industry and community challenges.
- Emphasis on programmatic and experiential learning goals, promoting lifelong learning, corporate-student interaction, and research immersion.
- Integration of academic, corporate, and cultural activities to provide a robust context for DBA research and outcomes application.
- Competitive program length means full-time students can complete their degree in two years — optimizing efficiency and effectiveness in educational delivery.
Degree Outcomes
With an accredited Doctorate in Business Administration, you'll possess the disposition and skills commensurate with a purposeful, lifelong learning mindset.
These practical classroom experiences will have you ready to inform strategy with business resilience at the core:
- designing, evaluating and analyzing strategy to approach a current and authentic business resiliency issue.
- cross-applying experiences to new, complex situations.
- using technology to support decision-making and create innovative solutions.
Program Admission Requirements
To be admitted, a student must hold a graduate degree (either an MBA or any other master's degree) and have a minimum GPA of 3.2 from their prior graduate studies. Students with degrees that were earned more than five years before the date of the application may submit recent standardized test results (e.g. GMAT) or professional work experience to supplement their eligibility.
Curricular Requirements
The DBA curriculum requires a minimum of thirty-nine (39) credit hours of specified graduate coursework. Students may be required to take an additional twelve (12) prerequisite credit hours if they do not have a graduate degree in business or experience in the designated areas.
Pre-requisite Courses
Twelve (12) credit hours may be waived for students who have satisfactorily completed graduate courses in the designated discipline or have significant work experience in the field. Work experience must be evaluated and approved by the DBA Program Director and/or the Dean. These courses form an opportunity for accepted students to prepare for advanced coursework in areas where they have limited prior professional or academic experience.
DBA Program Core Courses
Thirty (30) credit hours of DBA Core Courses that must be completed by all students, in their entirety, within Southern Connecticut State University's School of Business.
Capstone Research
Students must complete a nine-credit (9) Culminating Applied Research Experience that merges theory into practice before they graduate. Academic advisors are chosen so as to align with each student’s chosen area of research/application to facilitate and strengthen the overall quality of the experience and research.
Careers
Graduating with a STEM Doctorate in Business Administration from the School of Business at Southern Connecticut State University opens a wide array of career opportunities.
- Graduates can take on executive positions in industries that rely on data analysis and technological innovation, including finance, healthcare, and technology firms;
- Government agencies and non-profit organizations value the advanced analytical and problem-solving skills of a STEM DBA for policy development and program management roles;
- Consulting is another viable path, where graduates can provide expert advice on business strategy and operations to organizations seeking to leverage scientific and technical expertise;
- Graduates can pursue leadership roles in academia, such as becoming professors or researchers in business schools, where they can contribute to the development of new business theories and practices;
Typical Job Titles
- Chief Resilience Officer
- Risk Management Director
- Business Continuity Manager
- Disaster Recovery Manager
- Management Consultant
- Director of Research and Development
- Strategic Planning Director
- Healthcare Administrator
- Crisis Management Consultant
- Supply Chain Risk Manager
- Organizational Development Director
- Public Policy Advisor
- Infrastructure Resilience Specialist
SCSU has provided me with an exceptional education. The MBA program has advanced my career and provided me with skills to be a top performer at any organization. I'm excited to start my pursuit of a doctorate in business education at this excellent institution. The faculty and university have supported me throughout the years and it is with great pleasure to return. Southern Connecticut State University invests in their students and the greater community. Their investment and interest in each student is an example of their passion for the greater good in society.
Paul Brown
