The Selinus University Business School has founded the Global Executive Ph.D. by Research designed to allow managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, CEOs, executives, officers, and business owners, to certify their skills in all branches of Business Management. The candidates in this program are senior students with, not only a Master's degree but also many years of professional and managerial experience. They often have big corporate responsibilities and are engaged in operational strategies to achieve goals and implement projects. The program Global Executive PhD (through the development of an autonomous and independent research thesis) allows to deepen a specific area of management and it is useful to pave the way towards more high levels of professional and academic career. Encouraging our candidates, special and successful people, to think globally and to use strategically their skills at the Executive Ph.D. level is our mission. Today's managers are pragmatic, action-oriented, curious, and tenacious, with a strategic vision of the business. The development of leadership, management, and intercultural communication skills are the main characteristics of a modern manager: their degree must certify this vision. The Global Executive Ph.D. offered by Selinus University adapts to the challenges of a complex and ever-evolving international environment that a manager has to face every day. Today, several social factors have created momentum towards globalization and strategic marketing, building a creative management of business problems. The Selinus Business School University, as an educational institution oriented towards certification of skills, responds by modernizing regularly its curriculum, deepening the real skills of senior students to meet the needs of today's international business community.

​In the Business Management area of today's socio-economic environment, being a holder of an Executive Ph.D. is crucial to a career. It not only certifies specific skills in the business operating branch but also places the candidate's profile in an academic research context at the highest educational levels. We know that today, it is impossible for a professional or manager to take a traditional on-campus course of study structured by exams and spread over two or three years of work. That is why the Global Executive Ph.D. by Research was born: fast, effective, low cost, and, above all, useful for the career. Selinus University, thanks to the seriousness of its academic work in executive education, is recognized as a prestigious international liberal institution of higher learning. With our commitment and our ideas, we provide Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Professionals the inspiring excellence of a private institution, combined with the stimulating advantage of a global and intercultural environment.

Global Executive PhD
By Research via Distance Learning
65 Credits Beyond the Master's Degree

To be eligible for the Global Executive PhD by Research program, it is necessary to have already earned a Master's Degree, an age of at least 30 years, and a minimum of 3 years of professional experience in business management. In our Business School, the Global Executive PhD will be obtained through a program by Research via Distance Learning. This learning model allows you to have many advantages without leaving your professional and family commitments. The structure of the program consists on the completion of an original research thesis, carried out by the candidate autonomously and independently in a specific area of Business Management according to the available directions of study. The awarding of the Global Executive PhD at the Selinus University business school is based on the evaluation of the thesis content. In particular, in addition to the content also other factors are evaluated: the topic, the originality that emerges from the literature review, the neatness, the structure, and above all the candidate's capacity for autonomy in carrying out the research.
  This study program, which is "by Research" and via distance learning without classroom lectures but with the assistance of a coordinating supervisor, has a much lower cost than a Ph.D. done on Campus, which would be spread over 3/4 years of study. In fact, each credit costs only 45 euros, compared to about 250 euros for an on-campus program. Since 65 credits are needed, the cost of the program will be 2,925 euros all inclusive. A low-cost model developed by Selinus University to meet the community of international students who want to complete their education at the highest academic level, without taking economic resources away from their families and without spending a fortune. In case, for various reasons, the thesis would be insufficient to demonstrate the candidate's competence in the chosen branch of study, the development of additional reports or an interview with a specialized professor may be required. It is the candidate's option to send consultable references to the companies. The time to conduct the thesis ranges from a minimum of six months to a maximum of 24. The Global Executive Ph.D. can be done in 22 different fields of study. Only top-notch CEOs, the best professionals, and the most qualified managers hold an Executive Ph.D., which is considered the most prestigious title in the executive field. Furthermore, working on a PhD thesis is an excellent opportunity to do research on specific topics, or to prepare the groundwork for career enhancement. A Global Executive Ph.D. on a CV greatly opens the employment horizons door and helps one’s career to grow.

Global Executive PhD
By Research via Distance Learning
Enrollment and information

Duration
minimum 6 months - maximum 2 years
Start
Enrollment always open
Format
By Research via Distance Learning
Language of thesis: English - Italian
(Other languages upon agreement)

Costs
Euro 2925.00 all-inclusive
(Instalment payment allowed)

To matriculate in the Global Executive Ph.D. program, one must be at least 30 years of age, have a Master's degree, and have at least three years of experience in Business Management.
 
In order to apply, you have to:
-      Download the informative brochure and read it;
-      Download the application below and fill it out;
-      Send your fulfilled application, your CV, your personal documents, and one passport-size photo to info@selinusuniversity.it.

The process of validating your application can take from 3 to 7 days. Once the process will be successfully completed, you will be enrolled. You will receive the Enrollment Certificate with your matriculation number, the credentials to log in to your account, and the requested payment schedule.
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Being the Business School of Selinus University, which also delivers PhD programs, we are often asked what is the difference between a PhD and a DBA program. Granted that, in our case, both programs are offered by Research and in distance learning; generally, the two degrees are considered equivalent in terms of academic value. Both theses have to meet the requirement of originality and innovation. However, there are some important distinctions that must be kept in mind.
One of the main differences is that the PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) program is considered an academic program and has a theoretical orientation, while the DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) program is considered a professional degree with a practical orientation. This difference mainly affects the research, which is approached in a different perspective: the PhD one with a more theoretical and academic focus, the DBA one, instead, with a pragmatic focus related to a more strategic and operational vision.
Students who decide to pursue a PhD, typically come from a master's program where they have already developed a thesis; however, the master's thesis usually does not have the "originality" requirement as the PhD does. Once the master's thesis is completed, the student who wants to continue his or her research in the same field of study, often on the same topic, so as to investigate beyond the theoretical boundaries, chooses to pursue a PhD program by pushing further into research, developing new theories, new models or frameworks. Often, through the completion of the master's thesis, the student develops an insight or awareness of the topic relevance; through a doctoral (PhD) program, he or she wishes to further examine and explore the topic scientifically.
In contrast, business people usually experience real managerial problems in their workplace; they devise strategies, build hypotheses for change, lead men, analyze financial investments. In short, they experience innovation through practical experience. A businessman, a manager, a professional, realizes that there may be a better way to deal with a given problem, a more efficient one. So he/she sees the practical need for a better solution, researching the problem from a pragmatic perspective. His or her DBA thesis will then be geared mostly toward investigating the global knowledge of business management to find a practical solution to a given problem.
Side notes
Historically, the MBA degree was considered the final degree in business studies. After that, those who wished to complete a PhD had to do so in business or another faculty. Business faculties simply did not meet the demand for doctoral-level studies. Most PhD programs at the time also had a requirement for a second or third language, and this was considered superfluous by the business schools. As a result, to satisfy both the new PhD candidate in business and the traditional academic stakeholders, North American schools decided to create the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program. This program would essentially meet the practical needs of business people and eliminate the language requirements at the doctoral level.
Since then, the DBA has grown as a doctoral degree, spreading around the world to an extent that it became equivalent to the PhD. However, the applied nature of the DBA persists, and many executive managers opt for this degree over the more academic PhD.

The thesis
In this context, the PhD thesis and the DBA thesis take on a different structure. The PhD thesis is traditionally based on a 6 chapters format that includes: introduction, literature review, methodology, data analysis, summary, conclusion and further study. In this thesis model, the PhD student demonstrates his or her mastery of the relevant topic and literature, as well as an excellent understanding of the various research methodologies that can be used to address the research question or hypothesis. Typically, this includes a desk and field research components. The data are then analyzed and implemented with new theories, models or frameworks being developed, so that conclusions and recommendations for future studies are highlighted. The student's main role is to examine theory and any "literature gaps" in order to develop new abstractions that fill these gaps.

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The study programs of our Business School do not strictly follow the local educational models because each country has its own academic frame work whose programs do not always coincide, therefore the study programs are not accredited locally but by international organizations. Our programs are considered as unregulated higher education according to the constitutional freedom to organize education. Given our area of operation, certificates and degrees issued by the school cannot guarantee access to government employment, regulated professions or career advancement in public administration.  Our programs are geared towards the certification of professionals and managers in the area of international business and not to public employment.

In fact, considering the way the school operates and the rigour in the evaluation of candidates, our graduates are highly valued for positions of responsibility in multinational corporations, NGOs, private companies or to perform unregulated professions. Very useful, moreover, to experienced entrepreneurs who want to certify years of business activity. The academic assessment to which candidates are subjected, carried out by the Business School of Selinus University, and the rigorous verification of their real skills, attitudes and competences, are the perfect guarantee that the degree corresponds to their specific professional and disciplinary competence.