FAU’s College of Business Launches Executive Ph.D. Program

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Three-year Program Will Be Offered on Weekends Starting This Fall

BOCA RATON, Fla. (February 28, 2019) – Florida Atlantic University’s College of Business has announced a new Executive Ph.D. in Business program, tailored to meet the needs of the southeast Florida community and provide highly educated members of the workforce a world-class education in business consulting and leadership.

FAU’s College of Business is one of the few AACSB-accredited business schools in the United States and the first in Florida to offer a Ph.D. in business in the executive format. The three-year, research-intensive program allows individuals to focus in the following areas: accounting, economics, finance, information technology, management or marketing. The 80-credit hour, cohort-structured degree program will be offered on weekends with concierge service and is taught by the college’s doctoral-qualified research faculty.

The program, which will launch in the fall semester, is designed for senior-level professionals with extensive industry experience who are looking to earn the highest academic degree in business while continuing to advance their full-time careers.

Daniel Gropper, Ph.D., dean of FAU’s College of Business, expects the program will appeal to business consultants, as well as those who are in the second half of their business career.

“This is the next evolution of higher-level business education,” Gropper said. “We now have a vehicle for people who have an MBA or other master’s degree to continue on and earn a doctoral degree. This is a way to further distinguish yourself.”

The Executive Ph.D. in Business Administration is a professional doctoral program customized for senior managers, high-potential leaders and C-suite professionals who want to become subject matter experts in their industries, highly valued thought leaders and contributors of new knowledge and best practices.

Offered through the Department of Executive Education, the program will employ face-to-face lectures and presentations, along with supplementary online materials.

“We want to create evidence-based decision makers,” said Ken Johnson, Ph.D., associate dean of graduate programs in FAU’s College of Business. “When finished, graduates will be able to analyze data, conduct and interpret current research and make decisions necessary to solve complex challenges.”

For more information, go to https://business.fau.edu/masters-phd/phd-program/executive-phd/.

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Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six-county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.