Program Goals
The PhD program in business at the University of Oregon educates students for academic careers. Our goal is to develop scholars who will be productive researchers and effective teachers at leading colleges and universities throughout the world. Students must demonstrate the ability to create knowledge through original research in their areas of specialization.
Our PhD program is rigorous and challenging, yet it is also small and collegial, as students develop close apprenticeship relationships with individual faculty members. Faculty are productive scholars and enthusiastic mentors. We expect our 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.
On average, two students per discipline or about eight to ten total students enter the program each year. They join a close-knit professional and social community, developing valuable working relationships with one another and with the faculty that continue throughout their careers.
Program requirements
- Approximately two years of course work
- Full-time residence, minimum three consecutive terms of full-time study
- Two independent research papers
- Comprehensive exam
- Dissertation
- Satisfactory performance as a research and teaching assistant
- Satisfactory performance as a classroom teacher
- Additional departmental requirements
Areas of concentration and faculty coordinators
Accounting
Professor Steve Matsunaga, stevem@uoregon.edu
Decision Sciences
Professor Tolga Aydinliyim, tolga@uoregon.edu
Finance
Professor Ro Gutierrez, rcg@uoregon.edu
Management
Professor Anne Parmigiani, annepa@uoregon.edu
Marketing
Professor Robert Madrigal, rmadriga@uoregon.edu
Selection of Students
Students admitted to the marketing Ph.D. program should have a solid foundation in statistics and have proficient English writing and speaking skills. Students may be accepted into the program without a graduate degree but an MBA or other graduate degree is desirable. A student with no formal business training will need to take additional classes to supplement the specialized coursework of the doctoral program. More details about the application process are available here.
Training in Effective Teaching
Developing effective teaching skills is a significant part of the Ph.D. program and increasingly important in attracting offers in the academic job market. Students participate in teacher training activities conducted by the Lundquist College and by the university's Teaching Effectiveness Program. In addition, students are encouraged to observe classes taught by faculty, to serve as teaching assistants, and to use the resources available in the university's Teaching Effectiveness Program. Students typically teach two or three undergraduate courses a year over the second, third and fourth years of the program.
Placement
Our goal is to place graduates in tenure-track faculty positions at a business school of a research university. In order to obtain offers for such positions, students are expected to perform well in all aspects of the program. The student's dissertation paper should be of sufficient quality to warrant publication in a top-tier research journal. In addition, each student should be involved with at least one joint project with a faculty member.
Demographics
Faculty profile
46 full-time, tenure track faculty (10 women)
Faculty members hold ten 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 2012)
34 students in residence
16 international
18 women
Countries represented (excluding U.S.): 7 (Bangladesh, China, Iran, Korea, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Vietnam)
Median age: 27
Average GMAT: 697 (quantitative-78th percentile, verbal—86th percentile)
Average GRE: 1390 (quantitative—89th percentile , verbal—81st percentile)
Placements of 2002 through 2012 PhD graduates
California State University, Bakersfield
California State University, Fullerton
Clemson University
Drexel University
Economics University of Indonesia
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Fordham University
Gonzaga University
Hanyang University (Korea)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
INSEAD
La Trobe University (Australia)
Louisiana State University
Loyola University Maryland
Loyola Marymount University
Melbourne Business School (Australia)
Michigan Technological University
Montana State University
National Economics University, Hanoi
Naval Postgraduate School
North Dakota State University
Northern Illinois University
Northwestern University
Oregon State University
Roger Williams University
Rutgers University, Camden
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (China)
State University of New York, Buffalo
University of Arizona
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
University of Denver
University of Georgia
University of Houston, Clear Lake
University of Massachusetts, Boston
University of Massachusetts
University of Montana
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 100 students.
Masters in Accounting program: about 35 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.