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The Kellogg School’s PhD program is designed for candidates with outstanding intellectual abilities and a strong commitment to research. Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution before entering the doctoral program. A master’s degree and work experience are not required for PhD admission. However, those entering with a graduate degree may be considered for transfer credit based upon previous coursework taken.
Applicants do not need to have educational training or work experience in business to apply to the PhD program. However, the interest and desire to pursue doctoral study at a business school should be evident within the statement of purpose, a component of the online application. Doctoral study at the Kellogg School is highly individualized, reflecting each student’s unique background, abilities and research interests. Of the approximately 25 new doctoral students entering each year, more than half already have a master’s degree. Previous graduate study may be in any field; backgrounds currently represented are economics, engineering, the humanities, mathematics, natural sciences, operations research, engineering, psychology and sociology. Undergraduate majors span an even broader array of disciplines.
The program is research-based, so it is the applicant’s academic record and his or her potential to succeed in a doctoral program setting that will be closely examined. PhD study is a high level of scholarship; selection is based on evidence of outstanding intellectual ability, strong verbal and quantitative skills, mature interest in understanding the basic operations of the economy and of the individual organizations and institutions that constitute it, and a strong commitment to a career in research. Successful completion of the doctoral program typically requires four to five years of full-time study and intense dedication and self-discipline.
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