TUT Doctor Technologiae DTech in Business Administration

DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Qualification code: DDBA18 – NQF Level 10 (360 credits)

SAQA ID: 96871, CHE NUMBER: H16/10770/HEQSF

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a.Admission requirement(s):

An accredited Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA), or a Magister Technologiae: Business Administration on NQF Level 9 in an appropriate business related field where the candidate achieved 60% or more if it was a full research-based master’s degree, or 60% or more in their research component of their dissertation if it was a structured master’s degree.

b.Selection criteria:

1.Submission of a preliminary doctoral abstract that complies with the protocol set by the University and the Business School.

2.The candidate will then be invited for a panel discussion by the Business School where the suitability of the study will be determined.

3.If the Business School committee finds the study suitable, these students will have to complete a Research Methodology Workshop that is coordinated by the TUT Business School, which is compulsory to be completed at the initial stages of the study, even prior to the candidate submitting their doctoral proposal.

4.If the candidate did not obtain the required 60% mark, the following procedures may be followed:

4.1The candidate has to sit for an oral examination to establish his/her abilities in both Research Methodology and Statistics.

4.2Successful candidates may then be admitted to the TUT Business School Research Methodology workshop, where the end result of this workshop is that the student has to complete an abstract, which has to be acceptable by the Business School DRIC.

4.3If the abstract is found acceptable, the student can now complete his/her proposal and continue with his/her doctoral studies.

c.Intake for the qualification:

January and July.

d.Duration:

A minimum of two years and a maximum of four years.

e.Structure:

This qualification consists of a research project that has to be recorded in the form of a thesis. Before the thesis is accepted, articles based on the research and approved by the supervisor should have been submitted to a peer-evaluated accredited journal and accepted for publication. A draft version of the article, with acknowledgement of receipt by the journal, should be submitted with the thesis.

f.Presentation:

Research.

g.Rules on postgraduate studies:

See Chapter 8 of the Students’ Rules and Regulations for more information.

h.Module credits:

Module credits are shown in brackets after each module.

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