Programme Structure

Programme Information 项目详情

Entrance Year：
开学日期
August 2025
每年8月
Normal Duration:
学习年限
4 years 
四年
Deadline:
报名时间
Open year-round
全年开放申请
Credits Required for Graduation:
毕业总学分要求

40 CUs (40 学分）

  • Core (8 CUs) 核心课程 (8 学分）
  • Electives (4 CUs) 选修课程 (4 学分）
  • Competency workshop (1 CU) 能力提升工作坊 (1 学分）
  • Introductory Research Project (1 CU) 项目研究 (1 学分）
  • Doctoral Dissertation (26  CUs) 博士论文 (26 学分）

Curriculum Overview 课程概览

The DBA is a 40 course unit (CU) programme. Students will need to complete a total of 40 credit units to graduate from the SMU-PHBS DBA Programme. The detailed curriculum structure is as follows:

DBA项目共计40学分。学员需完成总计40学分才能从SMU-PHBS DBA项目顺利毕业。具体课程结构如下：

The core curriculum is meticulously crafted to equip DBA candidates with comprehensive exposure to economics and management. Upon successful completion of the coursework, students are expected to attain an enhanced comprehension of the broader academic landscape, further refined through elective courses tailored to their individual interests and academic pursuits. 

核心课程经过精心设计，旨在为DBA学员提供扎实全面的经济学与管理学知识基础。完成课程后，学员不仅能够深入理解学术研究的整体框架，还能通过选修课程进一步拓展个人兴趣和研究领域，提升专业知识与学术视野。

  1. Quantitative Research Method 量化研究方法
  2. Advanced Macroeconomics 高级宏观经济学
  3. Advanced Microeconomics 高级微观经济学
  4. Global Economy and Trade 国际贸易与世界经济
  5. Organization Behaviour 组织行为学
  6. Strategic Management 战略管理
  7. Theory of Management 管理学理论
  8. International Finance 国际金融

Choose 4 CUs from the list of courses.

从课程列表中选择4个学分。

  1. Corporate Governance 公司治理
  2. China’s Long-Term Growth and Modernization 中国长期增长与现代化 
  3. Frontier Technologies 前沿科技
  4. Investment 投资学
  5. Global Politics and China’s Diplomacy 全球政治与中国外交
  6. AI-driven Business Model Innovation AI驱动的商业模式创新
  7. Chinese Economy and Industrial Development 中国经济与产业发展
  8. Business Research Methods and Thesis Writing 商业研究方法与论文写作
  9. Deep Thinking Workshop 深度思考工作坊

Competency workshops comprise a series of one-day or half-day discussions designed to train DBA students in research, teaching, presentation, and practice-oriented skills. Students will attend these workshops at PHBS and SMU, completing a total of 1 credit unit.

能力提升研讨会包括一系列为期一天或半天的讨论，旨在培养DBA学员在研究、教学、演讲和实践技能方面的能力。学员将在汇丰商学院和新加坡管理大学参加这些研讨会，共计完成1个学分。

In the second year, students will dedicate approximately 12 weeks to an introductory research project, which provides them with the opportunity to design a research study and write a short paper (1 credit unit). 

Students are allowed to extend their IRP to the first semester of the third year, for them to have sufficient time to identify their dissertation supervisors. The dissertation supervisors will be responsible for advising on the project and evaluating its quality. 

在第二年，学员将花费约12周时间进行入门研究项目（IRP），该项目为学员提供了设计研究方案并撰写短文的机会（1个学分）。

学员可选择将入门研究项目延长至第三学年的第一学期，以便有足够的时间确定他们的论文导师。论文导师将负责为项目提供指导并评估其质量。

The student will earn 26 credit units upon the successful completion of the dissertation requirements.

学员在成功完成论文要求后，将获得26个学分。

Dissertation Guidelines 论文须知

The Dissertation Committee consists of:  

  1. A minimum of three members. 
  2. At least one current SMU full-time faculty member on the tenure track. 
  3. At least one faculty member who is from the degree awarding School.  
  4. One external member (external to School, who may or may not be a SMU faculty).  
  5. Three members must have an earned doctorate qualification. 
  6. Chair of the doctorate dissertation committee should be a SMU full-time faculty member or a SMU-affiliated Doctoral Dissertation Committee faculty. 
  7. The doctorate dissertation committee could include one or more faculty members from the partner university, who will be appointed as Co-Chair. 

博士论文委员会（Dissertation Committee）需符合以下组成要求：

  1. 至少由三名成员组成；
  2. 至少包含一名新加坡管理大学（SMU）在职、具有终身教职资格的全职教师；
  3. 至少一名成员来自授予学位的学院；
  4. 至少一名成员为学院以外的外部成员（可为其他学院教师或非SMU人员）；
  5. 三位成员必须拥有博士学位；
  6. 博士论文委员会主席应为SMU全职教师，或隶属于SMU博士论文委员会的教员；
  7. 委员会可包含一位或多位合作大学的教师成员，并可被任命为共同主席（Co-Chair）。

Although preliminary dissertation work may begin at any time during the programme, the student can only proceed formally with the dissertation after having satisfied the following: 

  1. Successful completion of the Coursework, Competency Workshops, and Introductory Research Project 
  2. Successful completion of the Qualifying Examination  
  3. Successful appointment of the Dissertation Committee 

Students can work on their dissertation project off-campus but are required to meet at least 6 times per year with their Dissertation Supervisor and Committee members. Students are expected to complete their dissertation and submit it to the Dissertation Committee in the fourth year (by the end of Term 2). 

The Dissertation Committee will review the dissertation and conduct a final examination in which the student will orally defend his/her dissertation. 

If no further revisions to the dissertation are needed, the supervisor indicates committee's recommendation on the outcome of Final Defence. Subsequently, the Programme/Academic Director will approve the committee's recommendation for the Final Defence and graduation filing, confirming the fulfilment of the dissertation requirements for the DBA degree. 

学生正式开始博士论文工作前，必须满足以下条件：

  1. 成功完成课程学习、能力工作坊（Competency Workshops）及入门研究项目；
  2. 成功通过资格考试（Qualifying Examination）；
  3. 博士论文委员会正式组建并获批准。

学生可以在校外进行论文研究，但每年必须至少与论文导师及委员会成员会面6次。学生应于第四学年（第二学期结束前）完成论文并提交给论文委员会审阅。

论文委员会将审阅学生提交的论文，并组织最终答辩，学生将在答辩中进行口头答辩。

如果论文无需进一步修改，导师将向委员会提交最终答辩结果的推荐意见。随后，项目主任/学术主任将批准委员会的答辩结果建议，并进行毕业申请，确认学生已完成博士学位的论文要求。

Other Non-Credit Graduation Requirements 其他非学分毕业要求

Upon completing the coursework segment (14 credit units), students will take the Qualifying Examination (QE), which assesses their ability to apply the concepts learnt to practical scenarios. The students who fail the QE can apply for a second choice within three months. If they fail again, their study shall be terminated. In terms of timeline, QE is usually after 2 years. Dissertation supervisors are usually assigned after 1.5 years. So students will complete IRP under the guidance of supervisors and then take QE.) 

完成课程学习部分（14学分单位）后，学生将参加资格考试（Qualifying Examination, QE），该考试评估学生将所学概念应用于实际情境的能力。未通过资格考试的学生可在三个月内申请第二次考试机会。如第二次考试仍未通过，则将终止其学习。 关于时间安排，资格考试通常在两年后进行，论文导师通常在1.5年后确认。因此，学生将在论文导师的指导下完成入门研究项目（IRP），然后参加资格考试。）

Students complete the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Programme offered by SMU. 

学生需完成由新加坡管理大学（SMU）提供的保护受试者网络培训课程（CITI）。

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