Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

A Swiss private institution and a Central American institution announce joint DBA course with American validation.

DBA DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION: an optional subject from the student's many years of professional experience

Why to choose Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)?

DBA candidates aim to make a direct contribution to modern business practices. By applying theory to real business problems, DBA students use their dissertation to introduce new ideas to the field of Business Administration. The program is based on practical understanding and an independent research that can effectively complete the theoretical knowledge of the learners.

Who to choose DBA?

Our DBA program provides a good possibility to obtain postgraduate degree in the field of business administration with no need for participants to be off work for long while attending it.

The topic of the dissertation can be the research area of the learner, the one he/she knows the best, so it provides a perfect addition to the actual activities of the learner.

People do DBA when they already have achieved a lot in their business career and need to have new challenges. They are typically in their 30s, some in their 40s, some are even older. They have many years of work experience, good positions, a decent salary, and a lot of ambition and motivation.

Educational Objectives

Having a doctorial degree in business administration helps gaining knowledge for work on the base of the latest researches, theories and trends. Not only this knowledge makes them experts in the relevant area but it also results in having various managerial and decision making skills with which higher positions in the leadership may be obtained, or a new carrier may get started.

Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Procedures

A core feature of this course will be a varied mix of teaching and learning methods that allow learners with different learning styles, backgrounds, and abilities to successfully complete this course. Teaching and learning methods used in this course are, among others: Understanding by Design, Oxbridge-Style Tutorials, and Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle. All activities embedded within the content for each module are designed to provide feedback to learners on their progress towards the module and course learning outcomes. Summative assessment methods will be designed to facilitate critical engagement with participants’ own professional development. Summative assessment methods offer an appropriate mix of assessment procedures that are fit for purpose and allow learners with different learning styles, backgrounds, and abilities to successfully complete the course.

Program Outcome

Knowledge

Has a systematic understanding of a highly specialized field of study in business administration, which builds upon specialized or multi-disciplinary knowledge and understanding

Extends, redefines, or makes an original contribution to existing knowledge and/or professional practice in business administration

Skills

Demonstrates mastery in skills such as the selection and analysis of research, writing, design, development, and sustainability of the argument manifested in innovative scholarly research in the field of business administration

Responds to technological, social, and cultural issues and addresses the needs of a knowledge-based society in business administration

Demonstrates expertise in critical evaluations and analysis with incomplete or limited data to solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments and produces original research in the field of business administration

Competences

Demonstrates authority in the field of business administration and makes judgments involving a multitude of interacting factors and sources

Promotes social, scientific, and ethical advancement through actions in the field of business administration

Has a sustained commitment to the development of new ideas in the field of business administration

Career Opportunities

This program can lead directly to career advancement for executives, general managers, project managers, entrepreneurs, and decision-makers in all kinds of organizations.

Training is provided online with lectures, videos, and consultant assistance.
Training is provided in English.
The course ends with the submission of a thesis and its defense.

Students can apply for an ISIC card, which entitles them to many discounts.