Program Goals
The doctoral program at the University of Oregon seeks to educate students for highly specialized careers in academe. The overall objective of the PhD Program is to develop scholars who will be productive researchers and effective teachers in their chosen fields at leading colleges and universities throughout the world. Students must demonstrate the ability to create knowledge through original research in their areas of specialization.
While the PhD program is rigorous and challenging, it is also small and collegial, enabling a close apprenticeship relationship with individual faculty members. Faculty are productive scholars and enthusiastic mentors. Our goals are for students to:
- Acquire advanced knowledge relevant to their areas of specialization.
- Develop advanced academic research skills for their areas of specialization.
- Be well prepared for the instructional responsibilities of higher education.
- Present at and attend academic conferences.
- Produce quality, co-authored scholarly papers with faculty.
- Obtain employment in academic settings upon graduation.
About two students per discipline or about eight to ten total students enter the program each year. Students work closely with their fellow PhD students and develop valuable working relationships with one another and with the faculty that continue throughout their professional careers.
Program requirements
- Full-time residence, minimum three consecutive terms of full-time study
- One or more independent research papers
- Comprehensive exam
- Dissertation
- Approximately two years of course work
- Satisfactory performance as a research and teaching assistant
- Satisfactory performance as a classroom teacher
- Additional per department requirements
Areas of concentration and faculty coordinators
Accounting
Professor Steve Matsunaga, stevem@uoregon.edu
Decision Sciences
Professor Tolga Aydinliyim, tolga@uoregon.edu
Finance
Professor Julian Atanassov, julianat@uoregon.edu
Management
Professor Anne Parmigiani, annepa@uoregon.edu
Marketing
Professor Lynn Kahle, lkahle@uoregon.edu
Demographics
Faculty profile
40 full-time, tenure track faculty (10 women)
Faculty members hold 10 positions of editor or associate editor for a leading academic journal
Faculty members serve on 28 editorial boards of leading academic journals
Characteristics of currently enrolled PhD students (as of Fall 2010)
33 students in residence
16 international
16 women
Countries represented (excluding U.S.): 3
Median age: 28
Average GMAT: 728
Placements of 2002 through 2010 PhD graduates
California State University, Bakersfield
California State University, Fullerton
Clemson University
Drexel University
Economics University of Indonesia
Fordham University
Gonzaga University
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
INSEAD
Loyola University
Loyola University Maryland
Loyola Marymount University
Montana State University
National Economics University, Hanoi
Naval Postgraduate School
North Dakota State University
Northwestern University
State University of New York, Buffalo
University of Arizona
University of Denver
University of Georgia
University of Montana
University of Massachusetts, Boston
University of Massachusetts
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of Nevada, Reno
University of New Hampshire
University of Portland
University of Puget Sound
University of Redlands
University of Richmond
University of Southern Maine
University of San Diego
The Lundquist College of Business
Located in the Lillis Business Complex, opened January 2004.
PhD program: about 35 students.
MBA program: about 110 students.
Masters in Accounting program: about 45 students.
Undergraduate program: about 3,200 students.
The University of Oregon
24,447 students (Fall 2011).
3,816 graduate students (Fall 2011).
Founded 1876.
Located in Eugene, Oregon (150,000 population) at the southern-end of the beautiful Willamette Valley, a two-hour drive south of Portland, Oregon, a one-hour drive east from the Pacific Ocean, and a two-hour drive west from the Cascades Mountains.
As a tier 1 university, the University of Oregon is one of only 61 public and private institutions selected for membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities.