PhD at Bradford University School of Management

Why do a PhD?

The PhD at Bradford University School of Management can be a full-time or part-time programme of training, study and research. As a PhD student you will gain high-level research, organisational and interpersonal skills, which can open up exciting career opportunities in academia, research institutions or management consultancy.

Business and management research at PhD level will test your originality of thought and your determination to see a project through. The PhD places you at the core of the university's intellectual life and at the forefront of its worldwide quest to provide future generations with the necessary flow of new management ideas.

Why do a PhD at Bradford University School of Management?

Bradford has one of the largest and longest-established management school PhD programmes in Europe.
The Financial Times ranked us second in the UK and eighth in Europe in its overall league table of European business schools in 2006.
The European Foundation for Management Development has awarded us the European business school quality kite-mark under its EQUIS scheme, the leading international system of quality assessment among business schools.
Our faculty and visiting fellows have expertise covering all the main areas of business and management, obtained from their research and practical management experience. Their research output includes many texts that are internationally specified teaching or reference works.

How long does your PhD take?

Full-time: three to four years
Part-time: four to seven years

How much will your PhD cost?

The fees for a student starting in 2011-12 are:
Full-time: £3730pa (UK and EU students), £10500pa (non EU students)

Funding your PhD

Sources of financial help may be available. For more information see: " Funding your PhD "

Starting date

September each year - apply now

Entry requirements for your PhD

You should have, or shortly expect to attain, a first or upper second class honours degree and preferably an approved higher degree. Alternatively, you may be admitted on the basis of a professional qualification of degree standard obtained by examination.

Your PhD is supervised and examined in English, so you must be able to prove your fluency in the language if it is not your mother tongue. Evidence of fluency includes residence in an Anglophone country for three or more years before starting the programme, or an adequate grade in an approved test of English.

More details

Contact

Su Bain
Administrator of the PhD Programme
Tel: +44 (0) 1274 234356
E-mail: phd.mgt@bradford.ac.uk

Director of studies

Dr Carol Atkinson
Tel: +44 (0)1274 238919
E-mail: phd.mgt@bradford.ac.uk

Bradford University School of Management, Emm Lane, Bradford BD9 4JL
Tel: +44 (0)1274 234393 Fax: +44 (0)1274 234405 E-mail: management@bradford.ac.uk
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