Lahore University of Management Sciences

Graduate Programmes

PhD Management

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Programme Structure

The Programme has been designed to ensure that doctoral students have the full range of necessary research and teaching competencies, skills, and sufficient knowledge of their subject area essential for designing and executing research at the highest standards of academic excellence. It aims to do this by combining structured course work with supervised research study. The Programme design has been made in line with international standards and satisfies HEC guidelines for PhD Programmes.

The Programme consists of two phases. The first phase, approximately 2 years, will be dedicated to coursework consisting of core course , electives in the area of specialization, and comprehensive exams. Each course will typically consist of about three hours of instruction per week over a fifteen week term. At the end of the first year, students will write a comprehensive exam (comprehensive exam A) on subjects covered in the first year. Only students who successfully pass Comprehensive Exam A will proceed to their second year.

Another comprehensive exam (Comprehensive Exam B) will be administered at the end of the second year where students will be tested on knowledge pertaining to their specialization area. Those who successfully pass comprehensive exam B will move forward to the Programme’s third and final phase. This phase, taking approximately two years to complete, will involve conceptualizing and writing the PhD thesis. After a successful thesis defence, the student will be awarded the PhD degree.

Course Work				Thesis
Year I		Year II		Year III		Year IV
Term I Term I Statistics* Philosophy of Administrative Sciences* Research Methods* Support Area Course 2 (e.g., Sociology of Max Weber ; Optimization) Pedagogy*				Work on Dissertation Work on Dissertation
Term II Term II Support Area Course 1 (e.g., Psychology; Advanced Probability) Specialization Area Course 3 (e.g., Negotiation for OB&S; Enterprise Modelling for OM). Specialization Area Course 1 (e.g., Organizational Behaviour for OB&S; Optimization for OM) Specialization Area Course 4 (e.g., Strategic Management for OB&S; Total Quality Management for OM). Specialization Area Course 2 (e.g., Organization Theory for OB&S; Supply Chain Management for OM).				Dissertation Proposal Defence Dissertation Write-Up e Sciences* Work on Dissertation Work on Dissertation
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM A		COMPREHENSIVE EXAM B				Dissertation Defense