Key information
Duration
- Full-time: 39 months
- Part-time: 48 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting November 2026 — Application deadline not specified.
- Starting January 2027 — Application deadline not specified.
- Starting September 2027 — Apply before Jul 2027.
Language
English
IELTS: 6.5
Delivered
On Campus
Campus Location
London, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Business Administration
Overview
Today’s global business environment is disruptive and dynamic, posing various organisational leadership challenges. The Doctor of Business Administration programme from Teesside University London programme gives you the knowledge and skills you need as a business leader. Engage deeply with your organisations, critically reviewing and researching workplace-based attitudes and practices, and applying your learning to improve outcomes and solve problems responsibly and sustainably. Gain a comprehensive, research-intensive and high-level education, enhancing your managerial practice. You co-create and interpret new, actionable knowledge through original research at the forefront of an area of practice or academic discipline, combining advanced study with professional experience.
All DBA lecturers are research-active and able to supervise academic and practical research topics, with a range of expertise including human resource management, organisation behaviour, innovation and marketing.
Career opportunities
Typically, graduates move into senior management and strategic leadership roles, internal consultant/project leadership roles or external consultancy roles. Applicants are expected to be relatively senior business-based professionals at the point of entry, so while the course allows you to build on existing experience and skills, it develops you further as a research-informed leader.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Advanced Research Project
- Critical Issues in Policy, Organisation and Management Research
- Interdisciplinary Research Design for Doctoral Students
Admission requirements
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
IELTS: 6.5
Other requirements
General requirements
- You must have a master's degree in a subject relating to business and/or management, as well as over 3 years' management experience and an appropriate position in the workplace.
- If your first language is not English, you need to satisfy the English language requirements which are a minimum overall score of 6.5 IELTS and 5.5 in each area.
- You must also complete a short research proposal.
- All prospective students will be interviewed. Applicants must show they have recent and relevant study or practice in the field of business and/or management.
Fees and funding
Tuition Fees
Tuition fees are shown in AUD and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.
International: 23,290 AUD / year (≈ 12,375 GBP / year)
Domestic: 18,585 AUD / year (≈ 9,875 GBP / year)
Part-time full course fee: £19,750 for UK applicants
