Doctor of
Business Administration

As a graduate of this program, you’ll develop advanced capabilities across the following competency areas:

• Applied Research and Evidence Use: Design and execute practice-focused inquiry to address a defined organizational problem; evaluate evidence quality; and present defensible findings that inform action.
• Methods and Analytics Rigor: Select and apply fit-for-purpose qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods; ensure data integrity, analytic validity, and reproducibility throughout the capstone sequence.
• Strategic Leadership and Change: Critically compare leadership theories and select approaches that strengthen core business functions; design and justify context-aware, evidence-based change strategies.
• Professional and Scholarly Communication: Translate analyses into audience-appropriate recommendations, written, visual, and oral, that reinforce strategic goals, articulate risk and ROI, and guide implementation; produce a publishable or conference-ready artifact.
• Ethics, Law, and Data Governance: Demonstrate compliance with ethical, legal, and organizational standards (e.g., privacy, IRB/compliance, security) and implement data governance controls appropriate to the project’s scope and stakeholders.
• Impact and Value Translation: Quantify and explain the organizational impact (e.g., KPI movement, efficiency, cost/benefit, risk reduction); formulate an implementation roadmap with metrics to sustain results.

Our online DBA program equips you for the highest level of practical leadership in business. Whether you’re interested in pursuing c-suite roles, starting a consulting business, or coaching emerging leaders, this program can help.