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    18.00 L

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    Full time

    DURATION

    36 Months

    The Executive Ph.D. programme of IIM Ranchi is for the individuals with work experience and it is designed to meet the requirements of the employer organization, and at the same time engaging the participants in learning and research at IIM Ranchi. This programme has the objective of developing outstanding scholars for teaching or research careers at business schools/universities or management research institutions or careers in Government, industry, NGOs or for that matter any organization that requires advanced analytical and research capabilities. The core objective of the program is to develop an autonomous scholar by cultivating expert-level knowledge in the substantive area with area-relevant research and publication skills. To accomplish this, the Executive Ph.D. will seek to admit students who have a strong academic background, are highly motivated and who have the intellectual curiosity to undertake original research and provide them with knowledge and research skills that can make them specialized researchers with sufficient depth of knowledge in the various existing and emerging management knowledge domains.

    Students can apply to the following areas of specialization:

    • Accounting & Finance
    • Economics
    • General Management -Business Law, Business Ethics, Regulatory Environment & Business Communication  
    • Information Systems & Business Analytics
    • Marketing Management
    • Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Management
    • Operations Management
    • Strategic Management

    Coursework in Executive Ph.D.

    • The coursework in Executive Ph.D. will have 6 terms of 9 days duration (generally, SATURDAY to next SUNDAY) each.
    • 5 terms will be compulsory research focused term, whereas the 6th term may be an optional teaching-focused term.
    • Term 1-4 will have 2 full-credit doctoral courses each. Thee will be two compulsory courses in each of the first two terms. These compulsory courses to be covered in Term-1 and Term-2 are:
      • Philosophy of Social Science Research.
      • Research Design.
      • Quantitative Research Methods.
      • Qualitative Research Methods.
    • Term 3 will have two area depth courses while term 4 will have one area depth course and one breadth course (a full-credit doctoral course from a relevant other area).
    • In Term 5 & 6 there will be workshops.

    Eligibility Criteria

    • Candidates for the Executive doctoral programme in Management should have minimum of 5 years of work experience by 31st March of the target year of education.

      Candidates for the programme must have one of the following qualifications obtained from any of the universities incorporated by an act of the central or state legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an act of parliament or declared to be deemed as a university under section 3 of UGC Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification recognised by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India, or an equivalent qualification from an institution approved by AICTE, or any equivalent qualification from recognised foreign universities or institutions.

      1. Master’s degree or Post Graduate Diploma or its equivalent in any discipline with first class (or)
      2. B.Tech/4 Years Degree with 6.5 CGPA or equivalent (or)
      3. Any professional qualification such as CA/ICWA/CS with a B.Com/Degree with minimum 55% aggregate marks or equivalent grade point average.
    • In addition, the candidate must have secured a minimum of 55% marks (or equivalent) in all their public examinations starting with the secondary level.

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