Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Degrees
If you find value in addressing practical challenges, using technology to drive progress or serving as a high performer in organizations, you might find that the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program at Grand Canyon University complements your professional acumen. These programs are designed to cultivate your ability to solve complex problems, think critically and understand global business issues. The College of Doctoral Studies offers a range of specializations within the DBA online program, which can educate you on how to become a versatile business leader.
Leverage Technology and Analytics in Modern Business
It’s important to us that we graduate students with the understanding and capability to maneuver modern technologies to further the advancement of data and analytics in business. This is why our DBA programs emphasize teaching the interaction between emerging technologies and their impact on modern-day business.
Online Degrees: Balancing Education With Your Lifestyle
The DBA online program provides a comprehensive education in advanced business principles and strategic management. Designed for working professionals, the DBA curriculum integrates learning formats that allow you to balance your academic pursuits with professional and personal commitments. This program not only can help you build your potential for possible career advancement but also respects the demands of everyday life, offering a balanced approach to achieving your educational and professional goals.
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Our DBA programs integrate transformative business practice theories, designed to equip leaders with advanced business acumen and management skills. Our various specialties include data analytics, innovation and corporate entrepreneurship management and marketing — available with a focus on either qualitative or quantitative research. These tracks allow you to tailor your educational pathway to your specific research goals.
Choosing the Right Specialization
Cater your doctoral program to your goals by concentrating on a specific area. Perhaps you prefer the entrepreneurial journey by developing a startup mentality in your current organization, or you visualize a new career path designing marketing plans for a global corporation. In our online DBA programs, you can take a targeted approach by strengthening your education for potential roles that prioritize specialized knowledge within your chosen field.
Deepen Your Understanding of Data
The data analytics coursework covers key areas such as accounting, finance, statistics and marketing. You can also gain foundational knowledge in the design and use of relational databases. Discover the differences between our data analytics qualitative and quantitative programs to find the natural fit for your research objectives.
Prepare To Innovate and Build Businesses
The DBA program with an emphasis in innovation and corporate entrepreneurship educates students on how to transform an organization’s culture to seize new market opportunities. By studying events and observed phenomena, you will be taught about competitive advantage and outperforming competitors. GCU offers both a qualitative and quantitative program depending on your preferred entrepreneurial research goals.
Develop Techniques and Skills for Leading Others
The management DBA is a doctoral program that teaches you how to design, conduct and report on research that advances management theory and practice. The coursework educates you on how to better understand observed phenomena by exploring how and why people think, believe and behave the way they do. The program also teaches you how to prepare for argumentation and negotiations.
Learn To Make Logical Decisions With Creative Solutions
This DBA online in marketing program teaches the foundational courses necessary for engaging in doctoral-level business studies. Areas of focus include consumer marketing segments vs. mass marketing, as well as marketing strategies aligned with global opportunities. Start your journey toward becoming a marketing scholar.
Elevate Your Impact With Advanced Business Concepts
Throughout your doctoral program, you will have the opportunity to deepen your knowledge of advanced concepts in business that can help you increase your understanding and influence in your field. These concepts include topics like emerging issues in business, economic business decision making and different complexities in business, to name a few.
Earn Your DBA From an Accredited University
GCU upholds rigorous standards of educational excellence throughout the graduate degree programs. Its mission is to cultivate ethical servant leaders who are equipped to create meaningful impacts within their communities. Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission since 1968, GCU and its College of Doctoral Studies are dedicated to maintaining the high principles and standards set forth by our accrediting bodies.
All DBA emphasis programs at GCU are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP). The ACBSP accredits programs at all levels of postsecondary higher education that meet its high standards for academic excellence. Its goal is to strengthen the quality of business education and promote positive student outcomes.
Doctoral Admission Requirements
GCU proudly welcomes doctoral applicants wanting to pursue higher levels of achievement in learning and research. There are specific graduate admissions requirements that must be met in order to gain admission into our doctoral programs. To learn more about our requirements and determine your eligibility, fill out the form on this page to get in contact with a university counselor.
Frequently Asked Questions
Explore some commonly asked questions and answers to learn more about earning your DBA degree and the benefits of this educational path.
Graduates who earn a DBA might have a wide array of opportunities to explore upon graduation. Some potential career paths may include the following:
- Chief executive
- Business intelligence director
- Business intelligence solutions architect
- Business operations specialist
- General operations manager
- Professor
- Strategic innovation manager
- Training and development specialist
Doctoral Student Resources
Your learning and growth are important to us, so we make sure to offer all our students a variety of resources and support to aid in their learning. These include numerous online learning resources for our online learners and specialized resources offered by the College of Doctoral Studies.
1 This program includes an in-person residency requirement.
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