Business Economics - Doctoral Programme: modules

The doctoral student follows courses for 21 credits. Minimum 12 credits are from courses from the Master of Advanced Business Studies programme. Courses from outside the Master of Advanced Business Studies must have a research focus and are preferably courses from a Master after Master level. The individual programme must be signed by the promotor and the Coordinator of the Research Unit where the student does his/her PhD. The final approval of the programme lies with the Faculty Board.

Doctoral students who already have a Research Master degree in Economics or Business Economics, with honours, are exempted from the courses.

The doctoral student follows the courses in the first year of the doctoral programme. Spreading the courses over the first two years is possible provided that the student has a detailed motivation and permission by the Faculty Board.

The course ‘Academic English for doctoral students’ is strongly recommended for doctoral students during the second year of their doctoral studies.

If doctoral students have followed courses from the Master of Advanced Business studies programme during their previous education and if they have obtained a score of at least 14 out of 20, they can be exempted from these courses.

Deliberation: The doctoral student succeeds for these doctoral courses if the candidate achieves an average grade of at least 68% on all the doctoral courses, with a score of at least 10 out of 20 on each individual course. Each year only one deliberation is organized, which takes place in June. In order to allow the student to achieve an average of at least 68%, there is one resit possible, also for doctoral courses with already obtained scores between 10-13 on 20.