Online MBA Degree

School of Management at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)

Purpose
To enhance leadership and strategic skills of DBA candidates.
To enable DBA participants to analyse and refine management practices and create additional value for their organizations.
To help DBA participants to acquire advanced management research skills and holistic knowledge of strategic issues in order to lead and manage organizations more effectively and in socially responsible ways.
To prepare DBA participants to carry out research in organizational context based on their practical expetriences and translating it to management theories

School of Management at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)

Admission Requirements

Strong academic record on the graduate level in management or economics (minimum GPA of 3.50 or equivalent)
Submission of a brief dissertation research proposal including the required research facilities, if necessary
Applicants with strong academic credentials in fields other than management are encouraged to apply. They are required to take additional coursework at AIT.
Participants who do not meet the PhD admission requirements might enter in the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) program first which can qualify for entry in the PhD program.

School of Management at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)

Mission and Vission
The Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) is a doctoral program for senior professional managers/administrators. It combines coursework and research investigations. The mission of the DBA Program is to create the body of knowledge embedded in practice, and the ultimate vision is to develop and disseminate managemetn theories, grounded in the Asian business practices and experiences, including case studies and industry analyses.

School of Management at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)

Financial Assistance
AIT offers a limited number of financial awards for the Master and Doctoral Programs, on a competitive basis, to applicants who have been evaluated as outstandingly qualified for admission and who can show proof of financial need during studies at AIT. Limited support is provided for research. The AIT financial assistance is intended to meet the student’s basic financial needs and to help defray but not fully cover study costs at AIT. Students must supplement AIT support from their own sources. For non-Thai students, air travel grants to and from AIT are not provided.
Scholarship
Scholarships are awarded on a highly competitive basis to exceptionally well-qualified applicants, in the top 5% of their graduating class. Full scholarships are made available from the Royal Thai Government and other governments including Austria, Denmark, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland as well as funding organizations such as Asian Development Bank and World Bank. Donor’s approval may be required prior to their awards and may take into consideration the applicants’ nationality, field of study, area of specialization and/or gender. The scholarships may cover tuition and fees, and/or a minimum monthly bursary towards the cost of books, food and miscellaneous expenses, as well as rent for a standard room accommodation on campus.

Institute Fellowships
The Institute Fellowships are offered to qualified students, who can not avail of the limited number of AIT full scholarships. Fellowships do not include accommodation and living allowance expenses, which are the responsibility of the individual students. The Institute Doctoral Fellowships are offered to highly qualified and outstanding doctoral candidates, with very good proposal for their dissertation research and with CGPA in their undergraduate degrees significantly above average. Fellowships for the Doctoral Program take two forms: 52 Credit or 26 Credit Fellowships

52 credit fellowship of Thai Baht 728,000 per student to cover the last 52 credits of tuition.
26 credit fellowship of Thai Baht 364,000 per student to cover the last 26 credits of tuition.
The student has to pay all registration fees (Thai Baht 20,000 per semester) and the remaining credits of tution fees.

School of Management at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)

Educational Management (2 credits)

This course offers a broad-based examination of the role of educational management, centering on the core work of teaching and learning, and exploring how that central work is supported by the administrative, political, and ethical systems of a school. That work is deepened as administrators support educators and students, as a learning community, and in the search for excellence. Case studies will be used to investigate these themes. Students are asked to research real issues in their workplace or another educational setting, using the concepts and approaches developed in the course, and to propose improvements to those issues.

School of Management at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)

Academic Writing for Business Research (2 credits)
This course aims to develop and enhance new PhD students’ skills in writing up their research for international journal publication. Students in SOM’s PhD program need to have a research article accepted by an international, peer reviewed journal before they can graduate. Formats and styles of different academic journals will be examined. This course will focus on and clarify the publication process and provide the necessary information and skills to successfully develop and publish quality research articles.

School of Management at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)

Communication for Business Research and Teaching (2 credits)
The course aims to develop and enhance participants’ ability to communicate effectively as a researcher and a teacher. Candidates in the PhD. program who will be taking up academic careers in teaching and research need to have a thorough understanding of current pedagogical techniques and research skills. The course provides participants a wide range of approaches to the dynamics of teaching, learning and research in the context of management. The communication and presentation of doctoral research data and results particularly in oral form will also be a focus of this course. Strategies for effective communication and defense of research proposals and research data will be emphasized.

School of Management at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)

Qualitative Research Methods (2 credits)
This course covers research methods with an emphasis on qualitative research techniques. It includes topics on observational field research, case histories, narratives, and case studies, interviewing, principles of action research, evaluation and grounded theory. It examines the strengths of alternative methods and the connection between qualitative and quantitative research methods.

School of Management at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)

Quantitative Data Analysis (2 credits)
The course aims at providing the doctoral students with statistical techniques and skills for analyzing quantitative data that may be required for their research. The emphasis is on practical uses of these tools in real databases in order to discover and prove new scientific facts and relationships. Some mistakes most commonly committed in the process are discussed.

School of Management at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)

Foundations of Management Research (2 credits)
The course examines the process of research in business and management and the collection and representation of data. Candidates will learn a structured approach to the research process from defining the research question through the selection of methods to producing a final thesis. In the first part, research methodologies are discussed with the emphasis on relating theory to practice. In the second part of the course concepts of data collection are discussed including survey techniques, interviews and experiments. The course is conducted as a workshop for a critical review of published research from a student-centered perspective.