Management Ph.D. Program

Management Ph.D. Program

Management Seminars

Management Ph.D. students take 9 Management Seminars offered by the Department:

• MGMT 6010: Management Scholar Development Seminar
• MGMT 6020: Research Proposal Seminar
• MGMT 6030: Seminar in Strategic Management
• MGMT 6100: Seminar in Organizational Behavior
• MGMT 6820: Seminar in Organizational Theory
• MGMT 6860: Seminar in Human Resource Management
• MGMT 6880: Seminar in Entrepreneurship
• MGMT 6900: Current Issues in Micro (OB & HR)
• MGMT 6900: Current Issues in Macro (STR, OT, ENT)

See the UNT Graduate Catalog for more information about the classes.

Methods Courses

We are committed to providing the highest level of methods training to our doctoral students. Management Ph.D. students take 12 hours of Methods Courses with Ph.D. students from other departments in the G. Brint Ryan College of Business. This provides students with an opportunity to interact with students who have a wide variety of interests. Students also take a management-specific methods course and may enroll in doctoral-level methods courses offered throughout the university. The Management Department also funds doctoral students to take CARMA (Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis) short courses and offers scholarships to students who complete the CARMA webcast series.

Qualifying Exam

Following two years of coursework, Ph.D. students complete a two-part qualifying exam. The first part requires a successful defense of an empirical research project to demonstrate deep knowledge within a specific subarea of management and of leading-edge methods. The second part of the exam is a one-day comprehensive written exam in which students demonstrate their ability to integrate knowledge across management subareas. After passing this exam, students focus on completing the dissertation. This usually involves 12 hours of Dissertation coursework during which the dissertation proposal is developed and defended, then the dissertation research is conducted, and the final document is orally defended under the direction of the student's self-selected dissertation committee.

One-on-One Mentoring

Development as a management scholar depends upon close mentorship between students and faculty members. Therefore, all management doctoral students develop their research skills through working closely with management faculty on research projects. First and second-year students can expect to devote a minimum of 10 hours per week beyond course requirements to working with faculty members on research projects. Research collaborations outside of formal courses beginning in the first semester provide students with opportunities to build research skills early in the program, to promote faculty-student research collaboration, and provide the student with early research opportunities and outcomes such as conference presentations and journal publications.