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The doctoral program in business at Rice is intended for those aspiring to become faculty members at business schools in prestigious research universities. Students engage in both coursework and research as part of their doctoral training. As graduation approaches, students interview for faculty positions hoping to start a career as an assistant professor at business schools around the world. The career of an assistant professor involves conducting research that is eventually published in well-respected, peer-reviewed academic journals, imparting management wisdom (informed by research) in the classroom.

Areas of Study:

Accounting: Accounting Research involves the systematic and scientific study of accounting systems, institutions, standards and regulations for the purpose of understanding and characterizing their decision-facilitating and decision-influencing roles within organizations, in product and capital markets, and across economies.

Finance: The Ph.D. in Finance at Rice University prepares doctoral graduates to be superior classroom instructors and research scholars in financial economics upon graduation.

Operations Management: The major concentration in operations management of the Ph.D. in Business at Rice University prepares students to investigate fundamental questions about these contexts and processes. The distinguishing features of this concentration are its rigorous theoretical and methodological training, and the interplay between the development of innovative theory and methodology and their application to a broad set of relevant contexts.

Organizational Behavior: The Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior prepares students to research fundamental questions about complex organizations as well as the groups and individuals that behave within them, drawing from both psychological and sociological perspectives.

Strategic Management: The Ph.D. program in strategic management provides course work in the base theories in strategic management. The field of strategic management studies big picture issues facing managers of firms, such as deciding what markets and industries to enter, how to enter and exit various markets, how to position the firm in the market in order to gain competitive advantage, and the timing, sequencing, and orchestration of competitive initiatives.

Candidates for the PhD degree spend at least two years in full-time coursework and at least two years writing the thesis. Four to five years is a reasonable goal for completing the program. Students pursuing the PhD degree in Business must:

• Complete a program of doctoral-level courses that is approved by the area (or major concentration) faculty advisor. Students take courses from departments such as economics, psychology, statistics, and political science in addition to courses from Jones Graduate School of Business.
• Complete all Rice coursework with a minimum overall GPA of 2.67 or higher.
• Complete all program coursework with a minimum GPA of 3.00 and a minimum grade of B (3.00 grade points) in each required course.
• Complete all of the course requirements in their selected major concentration.
• Complete and defend orally a doctoral thesis, setting forth in publishable form, the results of original research.

• Accounting
• Finance
• Operations Management
Organizational Behavior
Strategic Management