Executive Ph.D at IIM Ranchi Offline Course

The Executive Ph.D. programme of IIM Ranchi is for the individuals with work experience and it is designed to meet the requirements of the employer organization, and at the same time engaging the participants in learning and research at IIM Ranchi. This programme has the objective of developing outstanding scholars for teaching or research careers at business schools/universities or management research institutions or careers in Government, industry, NGOs or for that matter any organization that requires advanced analytical and research capabilities. The core objective of the program is to develop an autonomous scholar by cultivating expert-level knowledge in the substantive area with area-relevant research and publication skills. To accomplish this, the Executive Ph.D. will seek to admit students who have a strong academic background, are highly motivated and who have the intellectual curiosity to undertake original research and provide them with knowledge and research skills that can make them specialized researchers with sufficient depth of knowledge in the various existing and emerging management knowledge domains.

Students can apply to the following areas of specialization:

• Accounting & Finance
• Economics
• General Management -Business Law, Business Ethics, Regulatory Environment & Business Communication  
• Information Systems & Business Analytics
• Marketing Management
• Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Management
• Operations Management
• Strategic Management

Coursework in Executive Ph.D.

• The coursework in Executive Ph.D. will have 6 terms of 9 days duration (generally, SATURDAY to next SUNDAY) each.
• 5 terms will be compulsory research focused term, whereas the 6th term may be an optional teaching-focused term.
• Term 1-4 will have 2 full-credit doctoral courses each. Thee will be two compulsory courses in each of the first two terms. These compulsory courses to be covered in Term-1 and Term-2 are:
  • Philosophy of Social Science Research.
  • Research Design.
  • Quantitative Research Methods.
  • Qualitative Research Methods.
• Term 3 will have two area depth courses while term 4 will have one area depth course and one breadth course (a full-credit doctoral course from a relevant other area).
• In Term 5 & 6 there will be workshops.