Business and Management

Entry requirements

• Bachelor's (Honours) degree at 2:1 or above (or overseas equivalent); and
• Normally, a Master's degree in a relevant cognate subject normally with an overall average of 65% or above (or overseas equivalent)
• Professional qualifications other than a Bachelors Degree and/or relevant and appropriate experience may be taken into account for entry to a PhD programme.

Months of entry

September

Course content

This programme provides advanced training to develop innovative research in all areas of business and management.

Our PhD students undertake research study across a number of research themes often within the Division of Management Sciences and Marketing including:

• Marketing management and strategy
• Consumer behaviour
• Business informatics
• Decision sciences
• Operations and supply chain management
• Data science

We continue to attract outstanding researchers of the highest calibre and our PGR population is one of the largest in the UK, with around 45 researchers joining us each year. As a graduate of one of the world's most innovative and ambitious doctoral research schools, you'll be sought after by leading universities, top business schools, government institutes and private sector organisations.

We embed the PhD into the research life and culture of the School by assigning you to research centres and groups. You will be active in the research life of your centre, organising external seminars, presenting your work to peers in internal seminars, and designing and presenting posters on your PhD. Providing robust and systematic research training is a core strength of our PhD programme. To be able to take full advantage of the training opportunities that are offered, you should reside in or within commuting distance from Manchester. We strongly encourage any candidates who do not reside locally to enrol full-time.