Jun 13 2013, 12:09 PM
QUOTE(cheahcw2003 @ Jun 5 2013, 01:25 PM)
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All this while my general perception is DBA is lower ranked and less preferred than PhD in the academic line. But recently I have seen the growing number of DBA graduates teaching in both private and public tertiary institutions.
Is PhD is compulsory in academic line??? As an MBA graduates I prefer to learn from someone who has industrial experience (usually with DBA qualification), than lecturer with PhD qualification that purely emphasize in research.
In Harvard Business School, both PhD and DBA are equally ranked. But in Malaysia I don't see any good DBA program yet. And so called the offered DBA program, candidates need to go thru the coursework like what they did in their MBA, which I think it is repetitive and waste of time. As for he research part, after completing all the coursework, they still need to go thru the PhD research works. It is like DBA need to go thru both heavy loads of coursework and research part before it can get the DBA qualification.
Anyone can enlighten me?
Personally I feel the DBA program in USM is the best in Malaysia because it has the consultation component in it to which most universities do not have. I remember there is another public university in Malaysia which contain the consultation component. If I'm not mistaken, it's UM. All this while my general perception is DBA is lower ranked and less preferred than PhD in the academic line. But recently I have seen the growing number of DBA graduates teaching in both private and public tertiary institutions.
Is PhD is compulsory in academic line??? As an MBA graduates I prefer to learn from someone who has industrial experience (usually with DBA qualification), than lecturer with PhD qualification that purely emphasize in research.
In Harvard Business School, both PhD and DBA are equally ranked. But in Malaysia I don't see any good DBA program yet. And so called the offered DBA program, candidates need to go thru the coursework like what they did in their MBA, which I think it is repetitive and waste of time. As for he research part, after completing all the coursework, they still need to go thru the PhD research works. It is like DBA need to go thru both heavy loads of coursework and research part before it can get the DBA qualification.
Anyone can enlighten me?
Coursework component + Consultation component + Thesis component
The rest of the other public universities' DBA contain no consultation component.
The consultation component is where you have to find a company who is willing to pay your consultation advice. At the end of the consultation activity, the company would evaluate you and if they don't like your advice, you would get low evaluation and you could potentially fail for this component. I was told that there are some who failed at this when their consultation was not effective.
When comes to the thesis component, of course it would not be as rigorous as a PhD thesis. I have browsed through and compared both DBA and PhD thesis, and I can see a huge difference between the two. A PhD thesis is more thorough and more rigorous, although the chapters/contents are the same between the two.
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