Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Degrees
Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Degrees
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Explore some commonly asked questions and answers to learn more about earning your DBA degree and the benefits of this educational path.
What is a DBA degree?
Can you get a DBA online?
What can you do with a doctorate in business administration?
Is a Doctor of Business Administration a general business degree?
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Explore advanced skills and competencies to help make an impact in your community, workplace and career.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Business intelligence solutions architect
Business operations specialist
General operations manager
Professor
Strategic innovation manager
Training and development specialist