The doctorate program at the Ivy College of Business is a full-time, residential program that focuses on theory and development and will prepare you to transition to academic positions at leading universities in the United States and abroad.
You can choose from the following specializations:
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Information systems and business analytics
- Management
- Marketing
- Supply chain management
Our program will prepare you to conduct and publish scholarly research. In addition to excellent coursework, your education will be enhanced through participation in research seminars, joint research projects with faculty, and participation in academic conferences. As a PhD student, you are strongly encouraged to publish your work in top journals in preparation for future job placement.
AT A GLANCE
Program Duration: 4-5 years
Program Start Date: Fall
Final Application Deadline: January 15
Required Test: GMAT preferred, GRE accepted
Master’s Degree Requirement: Preferred, but not required
Application Process
The Ivy College of Business uses a two-phase application process. Individual faculty cannot directly admit students. Area Committees make recommendations, and the Department Committee makes the final decisions.
Phase one (Due December 15) Free of charge and requires you to submit the following application materials:
- Online application
- Statement of purpose
- Resume or curriculum vitae
- College transcripts
- GMAT/GRE
- GMAT preferred: 600 minimum GMAT, or equivalent if using GRE
- GMAT (school code TNQ-WX-02) or GRE (school code 6306)
- English exam for international students
- TOEFL: 600 paper (PBT)
- 100 Internet (iBT)
- IELTS: 7
- PTE: 68
Unofficial records may be scanned and uploaded to your online application. An unofficial transcript is a copy of the front and back of an official transcript. Should your credentials meet admission guidelines, you’ll be invited to continue to phase two, which requires additional information and payment of the application fee. All information from phase one will be forwarded to phase two. Completing phase two is not a guarantee of admission.
Phase two (Due January 15) Requires online application fee and the following additional materials:
- Online application fee ($60 domestic/$100 international)
- Three letters of recommendation
- A writing sample is strongly encouraged
You will be notified via email of admission decisions by early March.
Should you be offered admission, official transcripts sent directly from your institution(s) will be required. Transcripts can be mailed directly to:
Graduate Admissions
100 Enrollment Services Center
2433 Union Dr.
Ames, IA 50011-2042
Electronic transcripts can be sent to etranscript@iastate.edu.
For questions about the application process, contact us at businessphd@iastate.edu.
Curriculum and Requirements
Our program is highly selective, with up to 12 students admitted annually. Applications are evaluated based on academic merit, compatibility of interests, and research ability. A master’s degree is not required but students without a sufficient business background and basic knowledge of statistics will take extra courses.
The program consists of seminars in content areas, statistics and research methodology in the first two years. After passing comprehensive exams, students will focus on their dissertation.
This 74-credit program requires a minimum of four years to complete. All work, including the dissertation, must be done in residence (on campus).
For more information, contact us at businessphd@iastate.edu.
Funding
All students admitted to the PhD program receive a half-time assistantship that includes an annual stipend of $30,000 and tuition waiver. The assistantship appointment requires you to work as a research assistant or a teaching assistant for 20 hours per week.
Graduate assistantships also include health insurance coverage and prescription drug benefits at no cost to you. Coverage for spouses and children may be purchased. Dental insurance may be purchased for an additional fee.
The college will also provide doctoral students with development funds for travel associated with research presentations at major academic conferences.
Faculty Research
Improving business-to-business customer satisfaction programs: assessment of asymmetry, heterogeneity, and financial impact
Ju-Yeon Lee is an associate professor of marketing and Dean's Faculty Fellow at the Ivy College of Business
Earnings growth and acquisition returns: Do investors gamble in the takeover market?
Tingting Liu is an associate professor in finance and the John and Connie Stafford Professor in Finance at the Ivy College of Business.
When discretionary boundary spanning relationships cease becoming discretionary: The impact of closed ties on informal leadership perceptions
Mike Howe is an associate professor in management and entrepreneurship at the Ivy College of Business.
The Implications of Diverse Human Moral Foundations for Assessing the Ethicality of Artificial Intelligence
Ivy faculty look at the massive investment organizations are making in artificial intelligence.
Digital Selling: Organizational and Managerial Influences for Frontline Readiness and Effectiveness
Raj Agnihotri is an associate professor in marketing, director of the Ivy sales forum, and Mary Warner Fellow at the Ivy College of Business.
Marketplace Literacy as a Pathway to a Better World: Evidence from Field Experiments in Low-Access Subsistence Marketplaces
Ashley Goreczny is an assistant professor of marketing at the Ivy College of Business.
The Evolution of Resource-Based Inquiry: A Review and Meta-Analytic Integration of the Strategic Resources–Actions–Performance Pathway
Laura D'Oria is an assistant professor of management at the Ivy College of Business.
Endogeneity: A review and agenda for the methodology-practice divide affecting micro and macro research
Scott Johnson is an associate professor in management and entrepreneurship, interim associate dean for research, and the Thome Professor in Business at the Ivy College of Business.
Sharing Economy: International Marketing Strategies
Ju-Yeon Lee is an associate professor of marketing and Dean’s Faculty Fellow at the Ivy College of Business.
Overnight returns, daytime reversals, and future stock returns
Paul Koch is the Kent Corporation Chair in Business, and professor in the Department of Finance at the Ivy College of Business.
Peer Selection and Valuation in Mergers and Acquisitions
Feng (Jason) Guo is an assistant professor in the accounting department at the Ivy College of Business.
Measuring M&A premiums: Does the use of fixed pre-merger event windows impart bias?
Tingting Liu is the John and Connie Stafford Professor in Finance at the Ivy College of Business.
Habitual Entrepreneurship in Digital Platform Ecosystems: A Time-Contingent Model of Learning from Prior Software Project Experiences
Andreas Schwab is an associate professor, Dean's Faculty Fellow in Management, and director of undergraduate entrepreneurship programs at the Ivy College of Business.
Sharing strategic decisions: CEO humility, TMT decentralization, and ethical culture
Pol Herrmann is the Bob and Kay Smith Entrepreneurship Professor in Management.
Mitigating risk selection in health care entitlement programs: A beneficiary-level competitive bidding approach
Abhay Mishra is an associate professor and the Kingland Faculty Fellow in Business Analytics at the Ivy College of Business.
Reducing the Gender Gap in Investing
How to reduce investing’s gender gap: try talking about ethics
Vaccine study flips traditional view of product scarcity driving demand
“Interest in booking an appointment dropped by as much as 15 percent when the participants perceived vaccines as scarce,” said Pereira.
Weathering Cash Flow Shocks
Unexpectedly severe winter weather represents a significant cash flow shock for bank-borrowing firms.
Words matter in the workplace
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A Comprehensive Analysis of Triggers and Risk Factors for Asthma
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