Overview
The University of Sydney Business School has an outstanding reputation for the quality of its research across a wide range of academic disciplines.
The Master of Philosophy takes at least one year to complete of full-time study, during which candidates undertake approved research and write a thesis of up to 50,000 words.
From 2021, Higher Degree by Research students will be required to complete some coursework as part of their candidature. Master of Philosophy students in the Business School will will undertake 24 credit points in a specialist program taken from a collection of units called ‘Table R’.
Structure
Research areas
PhD candidates at the University of Sydney Business School may undertake supervised research with one of the following disciplines or research centres within the school:
- Discipline of Accounting
- Discipline of Business Analytics
- Discipline of Business Information Systems
- Discipline of Business Law
- Discipline of Finance
- Discipline of International Business
- Discipline of Marketing
- Discipline of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies
- Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies.
Costs
Funding
Admissions
Admission to a research degree in the University of Sydney Business School is very competitive. You need to have completed an Australian honours (or equivalent) or a postgraduate degree with outstanding results (at least 80%) in order to be considered for an offer.
A minimum result of 7.0 overall and a minimum result of 6.5 in each band