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Maharishi University of Management

Degree programs in the arts, sciences, business, and humanities

Management (Ph.D.)

Program Structure

The Ph.D. in Management has four phases:

  • Doctoral Course Work. Students take a program of courses that consists of a Ph.D. Core of 5 courses covering consciousness-based managing for sustainability. There is also a required Research Methods Core of 6 courses, Professional Development seminars in teaching and writing, and a sequence of courses in the Science and Technology of Consciousness, which students learn to integrate with their academic studies in sustainable management.
  • Written Comprehensive and Oral Qualifying Exams. Students undertake a written comprehensive exam and a written and oral qualifying exam. When a student successfully completes the qualifying examination, the student is advanced to Ph.D. candidate status.
  • Dissertation Proposal. When a dissertation proposal is accepted, the student is advanced to Ph.D. researcher status.
  • Dissertation Research and Defense. The Ph.D. researcher must write the dissertation research and successfully complete an oral defense of the dissertation.
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